Hi
I joined PoetrySoup back in 2016 and have let rip my poetic words on the world for better or worse since . . .
But I have since found whether it is a good thing or not the art of adding music and vocals via AI to my wholly written by myself works of poetry . . .
And I am left pondering whether my written works are poetry, or lyrics as there is a defined difference . . .
So my answer to that is: my works are written as poetry, I stand with the forms required to make it poetry . . .
My words to my poems are 100% fully written by me, they are not just a few random words thrown into the AI machine where AI then makes up the poem, or song for me . . .
Things in one aspect remains the same, the poem is written to be in read the usual manner with the readers imagination hopefully taken hold and enjoyed . . .
But within PoetrySoup we the pleasure to add audio, or a video to enhance that imagination to give the readera an idea of where the writer is also coming from usually orally, where the imagery of the poem comes with its own writer's oral perspetive and expression of the poem . . .
So am I a poet or not . . .
I say a poet first and formost, the audio that comes with it just a added bonus I suppose, one does not have to listen to it, it can be by-passed, and enjoyed as in the usual manner by the reader, and again hopefully enjoyed . . .
Well, that my take on it, and I am sticking with it . . . lol
But would be happy to hear your views . . .
Indiana Shaw . . .