Friday 3 July 2015

The Last Poem

The llama is damaging beans 
While a chocolate frog bruises. 
Bitingly, arguably angry, a colt skis a la mode. 
It gives a jellyfish to a coal mine, no longer beguiled by sails. 
And shuns chairs of frantic estimates. 
A computer generates poems.
Adieu.

14 comments:

  1. Can a computer generate poems...could it bruise a chocolate frog or put a jelly fish in a coal mine.. i think that is fantastically and uniquely human... ;)

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  2. Quite an intriguing imagery in this poem :)
    Hope you're having a wonderful week!

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  3. anything can happen these impossible days...a good one :)

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  4. Hmm, did a computer generate this poem?

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  5. There is a certain disjointed feel to this poem, which might suggest phrases linked together at random, as by some computer.

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  6. Well... that was excellent rubbish; and truly enjoyed going through it.
    ZQ

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  7. Interesting. Is this perhaps an experiment in seeing how people respond to random words presented as a poem? I do enjoy the assortment of images. This is Sherry.

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  8. The intent was to show I would get the same responses for randomly compiled word-salad as I used to get when I wrote poems. And I did.

    Everything here was created by a program drawing on a 4000 word list. I added punctuation.

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  9. The problem is we are taught modern poetry should look and read like a random word salad. I very much dislike that style.

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  10. This is sad - if even art such as poetry is computer generated. But I must admit, I enjoyed the randomness until the reveal. Adieu is a correct ending if computer generated poems will be a trend

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