Category: AI Art
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11 April: A-to-Z Challenge
I is for Inversion In a jar, a smoky dusty scentCharred notes of black pepperand weathered ash.We’ve put the lid on. It’s writing on the wall weather, wood smoke stings my nose. For A-Z Challenge. An Inversion: a departure from the usual increase or decrease in an atmospheric property with altitude. Specifically it almost always refers…
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10 April: A Sea Shanty
A Sea Shanty (tune: What’ll We Do with a Drunken Sailor) To sea to see, today we’re goingMisty spray off the bow is blowingHeadlong in a wind, we’re knowingFish are few today Way hey and up we’re ridingSay hey and down we’re divingMake way our nets are flyingFish are few today. Written for NaPoWriMo Day…
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10 April: A-to-Z Challenge
H is for a Heat Wave July’s a long heatwave.Prickly hot sweat.The air snapped and snarledas if itching to disconnect. It’s a rush of floral scent weather, and sunrise is a pretty blush For A-Z Challenge. Heat Wave: A period of abnormally and uncomfortably hot and unusually humid weather. Typically a heat wave lasts two or…
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9 April: Ragtag Daily Prompt “Bury”
Buried a grey squirrel races down the old oak, marks the bark with its iron claws, chases along the fence, untroubled across the slats, not a moment hesitation, no second thoughts, no tail flash in exclamation, and it disappears into the womb of the laurel, where this squirrel keeps its dregs and stash. For Ragtag Daily…
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8 April: NaPoWriMo Day 8 Twenty Little Pieces
Just Put the Blame on Pigeons And I tell her life is that pigeonthat just fell out of the tree, and she says that it’s sunshine through a daffodil, and she’s eating a hot cross bun,the butter melting down her wrist, and she licks it before it disappearsinto the cuff of her blouse, andMmmms. She…
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8 April: A-to-Z Challenge
G is for Gusty A gusty sneeze. A push.A breeze. A thrown stone.A drum roll. An autumn leaf. It’s lay siege to petals weather,wind under a white egret wing. For A-Z Challenge. Gusty: A rapid fluctuation of wind speed with variations of 10 knots or more between peaks and lulls. Written for the A-to-Z Challenge.…
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7 April: NaPoWriMo and RDP Day 7
On the Kitchen Windowsill There’s a finger-length silver shoe with a notch, it’s an ashtray but never used as such, and next to it a small terra cotta chicken with a wooden spoon protruding from the back of its neck, for salsa I’m told, bought it in Cartagena on a hot day after a miserable…
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7 April: A-to-Z Challenge
F is for Fractus Clouds Fractocumulus, a pretty breathof storm clouds that stretch outlike broken sleep. It’s a tear away,it’s a wind ringing church bells. It’s white as rough water weather,where blue is a gift to the sky. For A-Z Challenge. Fractocumulus: A cumulus cloud presenting a ragged, shredded appearance, as if torn. Written for…
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6 April: NaPoWriMo and RDP Day 6
A Spoonful of Urban White In the echoes of distance, all there, gathered in this milky night, were destined to sombre lament. Their footsteps, a river of invadingsecrets flooding these gritty streets,and dazzled by night’s watery lights. And the milky moon, sharp as a knifebroke through clouds, and thenfaded back into echoes again. A poem…
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6 April: A-to-Z Challenge
E is for the Eye of a Hurricane It’s theatre. A curtain call.A wall of flat calm and an eyeinto heaven. Fury and deluge.Then silence, as air falls dead. It’s short shadow weather, and the wind does as it pleases. For A-Z Challenge. Eye of a Hurricane: The relatively calm center in a hurricane that…
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