#napowrimo #poetry
And now for our (optional!) prompt. Poetry is an ancient art, and one that revisits themes that existed thousands of years ago – love, nature, jealousy. But that doesn’t mean that poets live in a sort of pre-history unaffected by technological advances. Emily Dickinson wrote about trains, and I’m rather charmed by this 1981 poem about the “incredible hair” of actors on television. In a more recent example, Becca Klaver’s “Manifesto of the Lyric Selfie” draws inspiration from the contemporary drive to document everything in digital photographs. Today, we challenge you to write a poem that similarly bridges (whether smoothly or not) the seeming divide between poetry and technological advances.
Happy Writing!
*COPILOT, MY COPILOT!
My trusty CoPilot, always at hand
to delve into the digital world.
To answer my many questions
when insomnia keeps me awake.
To create pictures to match the
words plucked from my feverish
mind that is forever seeking that
elusive perfection of the poem.
Once I asked you to write a poem
and my CoPilot you did - but
although it was good in syntax,
poetic form and ideas it was lacking
in human emotion, because although
you are intelligent you are artificial.
But who knows, one day you may
become as flawed and human as me!
*CoPilot is Microsoft's AI.*
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