The three quatrains below were created with an AI tool available at the “Verse by Verse” website. I penned the first line of each quatrain, and then, for the remainder, I selected lines generated by the AI, which were intended to imitate the writing style of Robert Frost.
Also, the image I selected for this blog post was generated by AI at the “Craiyon” website. To create it, I simply inserted the entire text of this AI-generated poem into the text box and pushed the ‘draw’ button. Then I cropped the image to a rectangular shape.
AI-generated poem
Soulless words don't make poetry-
The moon with clouds against her blue,
Bent over me beside the tree,
That she could form and look like you.
Nor you, nor I are in these lines-
Things simply just for their last miss.
Though a star played beside a sign,
With something of a moon like this.
Uninspired, I'm soon off to bed-
Unto me may be liked the brook.
To go on with a heavy tread,
Sometimes we have this way to look.
d’Verse poetry prompt: Meet the bar artificially
At d’Verse today, we were encouraged to see what we may do with any AI tool to write our own poems. We were asked to indicate in our responses what tools we employed and how we worked our own voices into our poems.
Let’s write poetry together!
When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
–Ben Harper (b. 1969)
Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!
The Skeptic's Kaddish ๐ฎ๐ฑ 
You did a wonderful job here, David ๐ I think it’s safe to say that Al won’t be so popular afterall! Poets are Poets. โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
๐๐๐ป Sanaa ๐๐ป๐
Definitely disconnected in every way. The first lines are beautifully human. What theโฆ ๐
๐ ๐๐ป Terveen ๐๐ป ๐
I believe you were trying to provoke the AI with your disbelief
๐ค๐ Ron ๐๐ค ~ that’s one way of looking at it!
~David
Seeing your clearly human words start each line and then the ai always have the final sayโฆ well, it did evoke an emotion in me. ๐ฅ Interesting experiment.
๐๐๐ป Flow ๐๐ป๐ ~ thanks! It was interesting for me too, but I doubt I’ll be employing this AI tool again…
~David
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๐ค๐๐ป Nancy ๐๐ป๐ค
As I mentioned to Lill on her AI poem, because AI uses other poetsโ voices, there is nothing contemporary; they actually steal bits of poems and use the original, often archaic language, which is so out of place these days. Personally, I dislike that kind of poetry, itโs stilted and unnatural. Which is why I agree wholeheartedly with your opening line, David: โSoulless words donโt make poetryโ. The poet has to be there in the lines in some way, in the mood, atmosphere and sentiment. Poets write with heart and mean it!
Exactly, Kimโฃ๏ธ
Interesting to recognise the style of writing as that of Robert Frost.
Knowing it has been generated by AI influenced my feel of it.
I loved this challenge too ๐
I would not say that I loved it; I almost didn’t participate, TBH, after playing with it for an hour or so ๐
I wrote on the one the AI came up with
https://mindfills.wordpress.com/2023/02/24/drop-me-a-tear-dverse-mtb/
Definitely, meaning lost. Sort of confusing, in fact. I donโt think we have to worry any time soon about AI taking the poetry community by storm. ๐ซค
๐ค๐๐ป Jai ๐๐ป๐ค ~ hahaha ๐
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Both intriguing and creepy. Interesting to read the AI lines, but they don’t compare to your original thought.
๐ค๐๐ป Michele ๐๐ป๐ค ~ no, they don’t. I didn’t get much out of this exercise
Maybe you didn’t but it is a fascinating topic/technology to explore.
True ๐
Hmm.. To me this poem has a very Russian feeling, would never think it was written by Robert Frost
๐๐๐ป Maria ๐๐ป๐ ~ hahaha; take it up with the AI!
~David
Hah. Now we know
โค๏ธ๐๐ป Selma ๐๐ปโค๏ธ ~ to our collective dissatisfaction