stuck on the tutorial stage
these poems are dying
falling in the forest without a word –
thoughts written on the page
disappear into the ether
unheard
A cinquetin shared with Tanka Tuesday #52
Today’s Daily Stoic poem:
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Shaun you capture so well that ‘digital-age existentialism’ feeling that our creative output is being swallowed by a void 🙌
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Thanks again Ange 🙏 Appreciated.
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I love your reflections, Shaun, both “ars poetica” – a poem on a poem – and your sentiments on the great value of patience. Superb!
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Thanks Suzette 🙏
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poignant. And when they fall like that and no one around what do the words do to the forest? I love your poem
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Thanks Selma 🙏 Perhaps they turn into fairytales?
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Oh I like that— yes!
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Profound and poignant. Our words are falling, one letter at a time into the hands of AI.
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Thanks Eugi 🙏 Perhaps this is how we will get to live forever….?
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You’re welcome, Shaun. Perhaps…😇
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i see what you mean, Shaun! Nicely written. Poems are dying in the forest without a word… Love that!
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Thanks for checking it out Kaci 🙏
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What would Bishop Berkeley say? Love this – profound, thought-provoking.
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Thank you 🙏 I’m not familiar with Bishop Berkeley but going to search more now. Intriguing.
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Awesome poem, Shaun!
Yvette M Calleiro 🙂
http://yvettemcalleiro.blogspot.com
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Thank you Yvette 🙏
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One good thing about the writing communities is that our words are given extended life after we write them… That’s for your TT verse.
Expecations are often disconcerning -especially when others think we can or can’t do something. Bling… in my book isn’t necessary. Comfort and humor are!
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Thanks Jules 🙏 I’m glad you found the meaning in the stoic poem. I’m challenging myself to digest the daily thoughts from the book down to just four lines and I wasn’t sure that this one worked so well.
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We often think less of our own opinions. While I might not be accurate I try to be positive. I have had some negative times in my life and have learned that positivie views help brighten the day.
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Indeed 😃
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Shaun, writing poetry feels like screaming into the void sometimes. But just know, we hear you. 💜
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Haha! Thanks Colleen 🙏 I still write for myself really, but getting some nice feedback is always encouraging and then at some point one starts to wish that more people could, at least, come across our genius and we start to think about promotion and sharing across platforms and then…one starts focusing on that more than on the writing. 🤪
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Wonder if in centuries in the future, blogs will be found, placed in museums to be looked at on screens from your home, by people who no longer have reading, or writing skills, in fact everything is left to AI and humans just watch …. yuk…
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Humans will let the AI look at the blogs and ask for a five second summary.
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😂😂
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