I realize there’s an unusual place for poetry: in the prompt we feed AI. Surely, the prompts make spectacular imagery, but more than that, they offer clues into the mind and the heart of those entering them. For example, imagine the prompt I entered to produce this image:

Here’s the answer: /imagine: the most majestic firefly lighting up the solitude of two people praying.
Let’s look into recent entries of text prompts not for the image, but for the poetry:
smiling African woman. Flowers in her hair; adorable little fire alien; magnificent pink lynx; anthropomorphic tiger head hunter, full body; oblique-angle candid shot of waifu(30-years-old) looking-back; rugged cyberpunk/dieselpunk wanderer wearing a gas mask; portrait of a Thai middle aged female on her 40’s, oil paint on canvas; environmental art of woman as translucent jelly slime girl wearing lace; ull body photography, boat, a sad kids boy bespoke dressed vintage ship cruise….
Each image fragment birthed a fully formed image, a world emerges from an incomplete thought.
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