Category: AI Art
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18 May: Ragtag Daily Prompt
Light as Bees Wings The morning sun iswarm as a peal of bells.Grey squirrels spiral upand down a tree trunk,and the sky’s bursting blue. This pétillant spring airis as light as bees wings. Written for Brian’s Ragtag Daily Prompt: Pétillant . AI Digital Artwork is my own, created using AI Midjourney. Imagery and poems ©Misky 2023.
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18 May: A Word
Soffit This word comes from where he stands,from where he looks up the street at workmen clambering across roof tiles,ladders and scaffolding and white vans, and he stands at the kitchen sink, sunshinein ribboned streaks through the window, and he starts saying a word, but stumbleson it, like navigating uneven pavement, and he says his…
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17 May: A.I. Skulduggery
He looked in the mirror,which confirmed it too clearly, Tides do what tides do – they turn.* *paraphrased: ~ Skulduggery Pleasant/ Derek Landy AI Digital Artwork is my own, created using AI Midjourney. Imagery and poems ©Misky 2023. For Linda Hill’s One Liner Wednesday and Fandango’s FOWC Skulduggery.
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17 May: A Haibun About Two Sisters
A Haibun About Two Sisters My mother, who in her mid-90s was nearly deaf but refused to get a hearing aid, said she had no problem hearing her sister, my aunt, and that they understood each other perfectly well, except that my aunt was stone deaf and therefore always wore a hearing aid, although it…
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16 May: dVerse Quadrille
Call Me Dylan His parrot isa decent poet. Self-definedas difficult, and frequentlyabsent by intoxication. Like Dylan Thomas,fixated on reflection, his parrotloves a mirror. And popping bubblewrap. His parrotis a madrigal singer in need ofa mirror to see the whole picture. AI Digital Artwork is my own, created using AI Midjourney. Imagery and poems ©Misky 2023.…
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13 May: Only When Spoken To
Only When Spoken To A child’s voice silenced and starved,left wide-eyed and twisted as bedsheets. She wanted words to curl up with her,to share her uninterrupted silence, and the air wonders what long cursewas left sighing in the willows. AI Digital Artwork is my own, created using AI Midjourney. Imagery and poems ©Misky 2023.
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11 May: Background Magic
I. My eyes wouldn’t sleep.I look out the window,a million miles into the sky, and I see tomorrow. II.It’s a flute’s cold sparkling notefloating grey-veiled over stars.It’s an unheard voicelike a feathered breath. III.Rising moon, risingclear and shiny as an eye.Rising like a young child. IV.Draw me stars, words flungto catch a star whose point…
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13 May: Not Bothered
Not Bothered My neighbour just hurled herself into a taxi.Going on holiday. Somewhere warm, she says. I walk out the back door on to the patio. Into the rain. It’s mid-May, and too cold for bees. Apple treesare in bloom, but timing’s all wrong this year. That thin skin of vibrant green that comesat the…
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12 May: It’s Nightlife
The heat of the day continues to rise from the pavement – the night, fragrant-warm with jasmine and night phlox. A woman concealed behind lace opens a window to catch the breeze, candlelight guided across the walls. Her children twist and turn in their bedsheets, sleep held in the eyes of sky. It’s humid. The…
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11 May: On the Edge of Clouds
On the Edge of Clouds It’s still the wild west out here,a flood of sins and nature’s laws.The sky is blue as the deep sea,the landscape’s prairie-blond,and straight as a bridge span. It’s as if you could sing out, andbe heard at the edge of clouds. Heard a dog down by the river again,… although…
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