Poetry Articles

Wartime poets. Bowls of Bread and Bombs. We could all do without this kind of inspiration.

Today’s featured image is a collaboration with Midjourney. I fed it the entirety of today’s poem; it gave me this marvelous image of childhood joy! Sometimes, AI isn’t so bad.

To the reader who thinks poetry is code – not all poetry is code and not all code is poetry.

A reminder: it’s not just the big things that are worth noticing and appreciating.

Ekphrastic poems are poets’ responses to art. But in this post, which came first – the poem, or the art? In fact, I used Midjourney AI to generate images based on the ideas expressed in the poem. 

“Only in Russia is poetry respected—it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?”

     — Osip Mandelstam

Who knew those sunny, bright yellow blossoms were noxious weeds in cultivated yards, once the seeds took root and grew? We teach our kids all sorts of fun things, then try to tame their wild impulses. Grandparents are for reminding them of their inner wild things. And that’s how you bridge the generation gap.