AI is Destroying The Written Word
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I want to weep
at the destruction of poetry
that comes now with the use of AI robots
and the fact that cheats are entering
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Categories:
placements, poets, words, writing,
Form: Free verse
Disorderly Conduct
...Dear Karen, there’s something I need:
I’ve got you a poem to read.
A deficit in one’s attention
is probably best left unmentioned.
If boring writes get you distracted,
my outcome’s adversely...
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Categories:
placements, humorous,
Form: Couplet
In The Shadow of Sunlight
...We are the children of the Sun
We are the children of the light
We are a shadow yond the Sun
We are a shadow yond the light
The Sun sees us in the shadow
The light sees us in the shadow
The S...
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Categories:
placements, analogy,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Contest Conundrum
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While wishing to enter the poetry contest,
I scan the page of PS with intent and interest.
Many topics I find challenging and fairly fascinating,
the submission requirement even more interesti...
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Categories:
placements, judgement, poetry,
Form: Couplet
Overly Particular Contest Judges
...Not for the contest
No more do I despair
writing for contests with an off the wall theme
Those that want me to create a nightmare
from what was once a beautiful dream.
No more do I c...
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Categories:
placements, conflict, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
MID FLIGHT AUTUMN BIRDS FLY-HEAVEN'S SKIES-
...in mid flight so the birds in autumns fly
ever so darken their eyes lighten seeking skies
twilight the beaten path wings move, they flap
horizontal placements heavens gap
in mid fligh...
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Categories:
placements, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, bird,
Form: Light Verse
Playing with a Pantoum
...A newly shaped poem is composed
Of themes both rare and common.
The poet’s thoughts, it is supposed
Will flow to paper without caution.
Of themes both rare and common-
Candid expressions, as p...
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Categories:
placements, education, fun, poems, poetess,
Form: Pantoum
Fractures
...10/9/2023
i know i am capable of loving
i can feel it when i’m in love
whether it’s with the warmth of a hand in mine, a colorful leaf falling from a tree, a connection transcending thro...
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Categories:
placements, how i feel, identity,
Form: Free verse
The Edges of Rhyme
...The Edges of Rhyme
I wrote the playbook, watching what they took
While the earth shook I could not look
In the direction of the Big Book
Like a fish caught on a nasty hook
Ruminating , ...
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Categories:
placements, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Engraved
...He was not impressed.
God knew the number of hairs on his head.
Did that include his beard if he ever grew one?
He would ponder this and other such anomalies of faith.
Why would a Supreme Being c...
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Categories:
placements, age, day, time, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Always a Prayer For Mine Beloved Part 1
...Good is the night beloved
You are covered
When your awaken and as you sleep thus this night
You are covered by the blood of Jesus
You will be more blessed this night
And the next new day
Ab...
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Categories:
placements, caregiving, community, how i
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Inquisitor
...Beyond six feet of distance
and seven heavens of this pull of woods,
I draw intensities of sounds and words to placements,
Calling me beyond the territories of these leaves.
My soul sought prof...
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Categories:
placements, deep, literature, passion, perspective,
Form: I do not know?
Thoughts On Poetry Contests
...Someone inquired of me about poetry contests,
And I shared some thoughts and considerations,
The contests, I wrote, are an incentive to write
Learning about poetry’s forms and foundati...
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Categories:
placements, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Palms
...PALMS
whistle
in the breeze
love melts in a kiss
blown with the ocean sand
sun glorifies the moment
“dee...
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Categories:
placements, love, ocean, sunset, tree,
Form: Verse
Butterfly Assignments
...Queen of Caterpillars was nearly finished assigning butterflies
She did not need a consensus, but she wanted them to be happy
They were tossed into the winds according to placements.
Scattered to ...
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Categories:
placements, butterfly,
Form: Free verse
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