Peace (inside the circle),
Kevin
Monthly Archives: April 2024
Writing The Night Sky: Vela
I am the daily host over at VerseLove for today’s prompt, which is called Writing The Night Sky, and invites you to use constellations of stars as an inspiration for a poem of space and wonder.
Here is mine:
Vela
SQ2 30°N – 90°SYour sisters of Heavenly Waters
await your return for an eternity
but solar winds fill your form,
and you remain mysteryYour children are seven,
a brood of starlings telling stories
of the Argo, the cargo of which
has long since been lost into mythYour sphere of influence
envelopes the empty silence;
the Pencil, the Gum,
the Southern Ring sings inside youYet still, you dance and flutter, Vela,
a translucent sail in the night,
reminding us of flight,
a sky compass of rememberingMore about Vela: https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/vela-constellation/
Peace (with deep space),
Kevi
A Poem For The Music Of Earth
Today’s prompt for VerseLove is about Earth Day. Mine tried to capture the sound and music of the wild.
Peace (listening),
Kevin
CLMOOC Silent Sunday(s)
Here are two Silent Sundays — both with a book theme. The first is from a mystery/detective story display inside a book store, and the other is a window display from another book store. My wife and I were away for the week so I posted the first from my phone, and am now catching up.
Peace (in pages),
Kevin
NWP Radio: My Interview With Rob Rokicki
I had the privilege of interviewing Rob Rokicki for the National Writing Project’s Write Time Radio show. Rob is a musician and composer, who wrote the music and lyrics for a Broadway version of The Lightning Thief. We chatted about his work and how he composes, and the idea of story narrative in connection to music.
Peace (talking it out),
Kevin
xkcd’s Rube Goldberg Machine Comic
Click on the wrench at the Rube Goldberg Machine comic at xkcd and build the machine inside the comic. Brilliant!
Peace (and gears),
Kevi
Blackout Poems Collection
Three Blackout/Erasure Poems for the Solar Eclipse
CLMOOC Silent Sunday
Living In A Tilted World: A Fake Song From A Fake Band
This morning’s prompt at DS106 Daily Create had to do with using an old Public Domain image of a bunch of men standing on the deck of an old, tilting house, and to imagine them as a band releasing a song. I used Canva to design their “single” track, which I called Living In A Tilted World.
I decided to go a step further, using the Suno AI Music site to create a fake song to go along with the fake band. I tried Suno out a few weeks ago and in that short time, I think it has gotten better with a new version of its algorithms (which is both fascinating and alarming, as a creative person worried about the intrusion of AI in our spaces).
I instructed Suno to produce:
an old sea shanty with the title of “living in a tilted world” about a house tilting into the ocean
Take a listen to the Suno single: Tilting Tides.
Catchy, right?
Peace (in the great fake out),
Kevi