This comes from a prompt off VerseLove to use a mentor poem to inspire poetry. The poet was to have the same month birthday as you. I chose Robert Browning.
Peace (and Verse),
Kevin
Monthly Archives: April 2023
Poem: Weaving A Poem Into The Lines Of Another
The prompt at VerseLove this morning was to find a poet who shares your birthday month and use lines from one of their poems for inspiration. I found Robert Browning and used the first line of his poem, Epilogue. I wove another poem into the fabric of his lines.
At the midnight
(waiting, as always,
for the moon clock
to chime, the falling
star seconds beckon
the eye)in the silence
(you hold hands,
and tongues,
in these hours,
when the long day’s
no longer young,
but aged in galaxy
light)of the sleep-time
(grass dew pillows
beneath your heads,
she said earlier how
she needs roots and
seeds, not feathers,
to hold her mind,
upright, tonight)When you set your fancies free
(waxing, not waning,
the silver shine always and
forever reminds you
of her, in the now and for
the always, this night when
you watched the quiet
unfold)
Peace (In the Skylight),
Kevin
Poem: Spin Fidget
Poem: Gall Ink
From Audio To Image To Audio Back Again: Static In The Poem
I’ve had some strange obsession over the years of finding creative connections between audio files (in particular, music) and image files, and how to make one become the other, and vice versa. I tried some interesting experiments with a PC program called AudioPaint, and even tinkered with using Audacity for audio-image convergence, but none of those experiments generated anything to get too excited about. Mostly the result was noise — either visual or aural.
My DS106 friend John J over on Mastodon shared a conversion site the other day for the Daily Create — Wave2Png — and I gave it a try with a music file that I had written for this experiment. A short piece of instrumental loops that begins with a static sound blast. The site ate my wav file and kicked out an image file of … something like a panel of orange, sort of the same variation that John had created in his own experiment. John said he thought the idea was to take that generated file, and use photo editors to remix it, to turn it into something else.
That sounded like something worth trying, and I went through a few iterations with the orange panel before landing on a version that became even more static as a visual, with a black and white wave vibe, prompting a poem that I layered lightly on top of the file. Then, since the font I used brings forth the background, I tried to add another color layer (yellow) to the back and I really liked the effect. The poem is nearly static itself in the way I created it, in look and design, and the poem — which went through a few iterations — is called Static In The Poem.
As a final step, I brought the image file with the written poem into a video mixer and added back into the original song that had started the whole process. I do like the final video result but I am not sure all of the meta-work (audio-image conversion, filtering effects, adding words, re-layering the audio) does much for the casual reader/watcher but at least now you know how I got there.
Oh, I also did try a revers-o move — putting the final image/poem file back into Wave2Png to see if it would generate a new soundtrack for me, but all I got was an audio file of silence. The machine as critic!
Peace (Filtered, for effect),
Kevin
Poem: Broken Rule Haiku
CLMOOC Silent Sunday
Poetry: My Brother’s Guitar
Poem: Write Me, If You Will
John Spencer: Artificial Intelligence and Schools
I like John Spencer for much of his work around inquiry and project-based learning, and he has been thinking deep about AI and education in this new world we find ourselves in.
His full article is here.
Peace (and Bots),
Kevin