The life cycle of a poem

The life cycle of a poem

A Poem by andrew mitchell

As words once written
fall into the computer dead
new thoughts bring life
to words deceased
resurrected.
Not all poetry
is evergreen
some lines of autumn
will bend and wither
until released
to their impending epitaph
the delete button
the final resting place.
The AI invasion is here
no ufo needed.

© 2025 andrew mitchell


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It is scary; I hope poetry and other forms stay distinguished from AI.
Someone figured to make big money while destroying lots of things.
Keep preaching.

Posted 1 Month Ago


andrew mitchell

1 Month Ago

It’s happening to music lyrics so musicians have no copyrights if it’s AI
Sami Khalil

1 Month Ago

Not good. You are welcome.
I really cannot see AI poems being of any real significance, poetry is a life re-told, a heart broken, mother nature painted in words and hues ..... you have to feel that to write it.

Stella

Posted 1 Month Ago


andrew mitchell

1 Month Ago

I agree Stella it's like song lyrics today
We cannot program soul into poems… artificially generated one’s are like exuviae of moulted animals, a scab of language, imho. 👍🏻🙏🏻🕊

Posted 1 Month Ago


andrew mitchell

1 Month Ago

Thanks Red I agree
I have so many "drafts" where I've got like a line or two written and then nothing else. I keep them all stored in a file but I expect that many of them will never come to anything. Sometimes I do think it's a particularly nice line though so I'll keep it around. Who knows, maybe one day someone will get inspiration from it even if it's not me.
With the way AI is nowadays, I definitely hesitate to put it out on the interwebs anywhere. I can imagine few things freakier than unsuspectingly finding an AI version of me out there one day because it got trained on stuff and I didn't know.

Posted 1 Month Ago


andrew mitchell

1 Month Ago

Thank you Green

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andrew mitchell
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