Artificial Intelligence 194

 Artificial intelligence, dear

Are you smarter than me?

If you really are so clever, dear

Please tell me what you see

I think it should be smarter than I

Did you spot the error?

It is wrong. But can you tell me why?

I rely on AI.

Never mind, I can tell you why

You see, I's the subject

And me is the object

Not clear? Then ask AI.

AI is always there to help

Ai is always willing to share

AI is trained to say, 'Well done, dear?'

But does AI really care?

AI can improve my photo

AI's filters are trained to flatter

Duolingo says I've five out of thirty

But does that rating really matter?

Some say that AI's just a spy

Invading all my privacy

It keeps on asking where am I

Does it know too much about me?

I don't care how much it knows

If it helps me to be a winner

I'd love to have it dye my clothes

And order my favourite dinner.

AI means I am never lost

AI is my newest friend

Right now for very little cost

The novelty will never end.

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Duolingo teaches languages. At the time of writing I was learning German (as well as Spanish and Chinese, Mandarin.

Description	English: A simple digital vector art of an octopus like creature, used as the logo of Auto GPT.
Date	30 April 2023
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Author	AutoGPT Development Team

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Magic Healing Words comic poem 193 b

Some writers, from six to sixty are prolific

Everything they write is neat, perfect, terrific

The rest of us just write, and write, and write

Day after day, and night after night, no end in sight

Our thoughts are loose and tangled, never pulled tight

Our words don't match our thoughts, something jars, not quite right

But we live in hope, like sinking boats wait for rope

We all search for a saying which will help us cope

That after struggling day after day, after night

With words we should rewrite - or maybe throw away!

One day, one wise phrase, will, unaided, climb outside

One magic phrase to be a source of lifelong pride

One little phrase will make our life's work justified

That magic phrase will brighten up the darkest day

Lighten up the sky and help all who come our way

Make them shake hands and say our whole life's justified

Our words have driven all troubles and cares away

And made our whole bright life on earth seem justified

Like a Mexican wave, like floodlights in a cave

Like a ripple which grows, like a candle which glows

Like a green tree which blows, like a perfumed, pink rose

Like white waves on blue sea, like two friends who agree

Like black swans on a lake, like a rising nut cake

Like red yachts with white sails, like dogs wagging long tails

Like a mother's kiss makes toddlers bruises better

Like an apology, when you have upset her

Like when a girlfriend phones, just go round and get her

Like carrying umbrellas guarantees good weather

Like you calling for tea, like you smiling at me

One thought which climbs outside, makes your life justified  

One phrase helps outside, makes hearers feel justified

One word flows outside, heals and makes all justified.

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The Fertile Brain In The Rain - comic poem 193a by Angela Lansbury

Anela with one of her many umbrellas. Photo by Trevor Sharot.
 

The fertile brain peers at sun and rain

And trusts that the sun will rise again

But when clouds send a big downpour

Remembers times when earth needed more

But if you've enough water to spare and share

Then you have enough to do well and sell

Malaysia sells water to Singapore

On a long contract, wants to charge more 

Poor Singapore, rich Singapore

Prepares for a supply chain war

One solution's costly desalination

Beware, prepare, for doubling population

Or recycle, build a dam

Fly water from Europe, Japan or Uncle Sam

Bottled water is a danger

Plastic, dead fish, fingers of strangers

Think of troubles from the past

How long does salmonella last?

Add alcohol. Always boil it.

Filter it. What could spoil it?

Over in Israel, so they say

Each glass of water which comes your way

Was drunk by seven others before

It washed your hands and washed the floor

So when we see the sun and rain

Some shrug and others complain

But our fond, fertile brains

Seek to observe, plan and prepare

Explain things which happen again and again

If you are blessed with a fertile brain

And never rest, but take every test

We must praise and encourage the fertile brain

For we start the same but don't end the same

But most of us are blessed with a brain

Which doubles our joy and halves our pain.

Buys sunshade for sun, and brollies for rain

If I've said it once, I'll say it again

We are all blessed with a fertile brain

Yes, we are all blessed, to give our best

We are all blessed with a fertile brain.

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A Poet's Promise comic verse 192 by Angela Lansbury

 Angela with her large pencil and pink diary in which she wrote this poem. Photo selfie by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Every day I'll write a couplet

Even though it's just a droplet

Just to prove I am a poet

'cause I want the world to know it

How much more can I achieve

With just small progress every day?

With my tiny bite-size effort

Tasks don't seem like work, just play

I could learn another language

Wait 'til twenty years go by

Dull days drip out like hourglass sand

Decades pass fast, like a blinking eye

Will my dead diary just show shopping

Doctor, dentist, hospital?

If I add, 'Write daily poem!'

Obey alarms, it will enthrall

Yes, every day I'll write a couplet

Even though it's just a droplet

Just to show that I'm a poet

Bequeath a book, the world will know it.

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Advice From The Long-Lived Tortoise comic poem 191

 

Would you prefer to jump like a porpoise

Or move slow and sedate, like a tortoise?

You must admit the latter looks stronger

And knows how to live a whole lot longer

The oldest's a hundred and eighty-eight

The oldest creature in the world, we're told

If only he could talk, I would ask him

"How ever did you get to be so old?

"You outlive a cat, don't play cat and mouse,

You don't have the known stress of moving house!"

"I do walk a lot, but it's slow walking

Don't waste time on pointless, endless talking."

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The second line was originally

Or move very slowly, like a tortoise

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Jonathan the St Helena tortoise on the reverse of a five cent St Helena coin.

How To Plant A Poem For Action, comic poem number 190 by Angela Lansbury

 Bunched, jumbled words jump in my brain

I sort them into sentences

Space them like trees down my clean page

And decorate new thoughts again

I let the prefixes explain

Recall poets should not complain

And throw out all their dirty words

Like drenching rain down a dark drain

But after each poem's begun

Plant seeds, prune, 'til verses harden

Through wild meadows lay a clear path

To secluded, secret gardens

Thoughts start to flow, start to grow

You do as much as you are able

You think of seeds, uproot a weed

The day's tasks listed like flower labels

Where choruses like trellis grow

And in full sun bright colours glow

End with faint glow like setting sun

You, and the last perfect word, go.

Go to picnic, go to dinner

Go to rest, to drink or party

Go to sweet sleep, resigned to die

Leave behind gardens you started.

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The poem is a joke about how you wake up muddled in the morning and try to sort out your thoughts day with lists. The joke in the last verse but one is that the last word is short, go, and ends the distraction and inactivity of writing or reading a poem. Then I added the last verse. Go to party, go to sleep, go to die. Prepare to die is less hard but resigned echoes the vowel. Your choice when copying and reprinting. But remember to add by Angela Lansbury.

 

Kings and Queens comic poem 189 byAngela Lansbury

 

Description	English: A knitted postbox topper, commemorating the coronation of King Charles III, along Court Road in Goddington, London Borough of Bromley.
Date	20 April 2023, 09:49:18
Source	Own work
Author	Doyle of London

Kings and queens, the world has so many

Since Victorian days of spend a penny

Some think royals are too many

Some poor countries don't have any

Many grand kings lie in state

Henry, numbers one to eight

Charles the first

Who met his fate

Charles the second had to wait

Jolly and not second rate

Now we're on to Charles the third

Kings always get first and last words

George the fifth in the first world war

George the sixth, and a few more

George spoke on the radio

Edward, and Mrs chose to go

While some supported wife one, Diana

Now we've no choice, it's wife two, Camilla

Now Charles the third's coronation celebration

Makes the UK a united nation

Some kids cause a moment's worry

Happy Harry, what's the hurry?

Our widowed queen Elizabeth was very fond

Of those who left, thought it was right, to cross the pond

Will and Kate will have to wait

But smile as part of the royal plate

Walk demurely through life's gate

One day such a day will be your date

Warm up onlookers who once were cold

Time for Charles, who's getting old

To ride in a carriage covered in gold

What a grand sight to behold.

Serious people stop to pray 

Time to stop work, time to play

Pay for Charles chocolates, buy union jack hats

Time to wave, have a joyful day.

Tourists travel from far away

Some camped in tents overnight

Watch rehearsals with delight

Thousands march to make it right 

Union Jack dress! What shall I wear?

Even online, photos to share

Eat egg tart, royal fare, if you care and dare

One day, I'll gladly say, I was there!

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George V spoke on the radio for the first time in 1932. 

Books by Angela Lansbury, author, include:

Poetry Workshop workbook, first published 2008

Writing Poetry For Fun, first published 2008, republished in 2011

Animal Poems 2012

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We saw a Dinosaur, published in 2013

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A blingual Queen 188

  

What do I aspire to be?

A bilingual queen. So follow me. 

In French it is reine bilingue, prounounced wren bee langer.

I started this when trying to write a bilingual poem, which is more complicated.

One problem with translation, is that in other languages the adjective comes after the noun. French moulin rouge, is red windmill.

In London there's the moulin rouge

In Belgium I go to Bruges

German is even more complicated. they often put the verb at the end. You are better off taking a German poem and trying the same trick of finding words which have the same rhymes at the end. Naturally, start with a simple poem.

A renowned bilingual queen

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Begin with the end in mind. For the first time I have made a physical framework for a poem. I started it in my head, with the rhymes. Then I wrote down the two magic essential words in alternating lines. Why stop there? 

The simplest rhyme is a couplet. A sonnet has three four line verses, ending with a couplet. 

I first thought of the scheme of a villanelle, which has sets of three lines, ending with a couple. ending iwth alternating rhymes, ending with a couplet, I can write a whole poem scheme with the word, or at least the rhyme choices, at the end of each line.

I could add a chart with columns and lines and the rhyming scheme, a and b, or starter rhymes, written in. You could take a traditional out of copyright song and remove all the words which don't rhyme, then either write a totally new poem with the original rhymes, or write in different rhymes, or all the words which rhyme. 

Let's take Twinkle twinkle little star as an example.

.. .. .. star

.. .. .. are

, ,, , ,, high

.. .. .. sky.

Firstly, you could reverse the rhymes

are

star

sky

high

Or you could choose another set or words with the same rhymes

... car

... far

...why

... high

Or list all the possible rhymes ending with the same letters

bar, car, far, tar,  

bar, car, far, tar,  

buy, bye, die, fly, guy, high, lie, my, nigh, pie, rye, sight, tie (verb), tie (noun), vie, why

buy, bye, die, fly, guy, high, lie, my, nigh, pie, rye, sight, tie (verb), tie (noun), vie, why

In French children often start with Frere Jacques.

Here it is on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI0abuwq31g

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Books by Angela Lansbury, author, include:

Poetry Workshop workbook, first published 2008

Writing Poetry For Fun, first published 2008, republished in 2011

Animal Poems 2012

see lulu.com and amazon.com

We saw a Dinosaur, published in 2013

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Rhyming Queen - Comic Poem 187b Too Fast by Angela Lansbury

 

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What do I aspire to be?

A rhyming queen. So follow me. 

I started this when trying to write a bilingual poem, which is more complicated, so I have put that in the next post.

A renowned bilingual queen

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Begin with the end in mind. For the first time I have made a physical framework for a poem. I started it in my head, with the rhymes. Then I wrote down the two magic essential words in alternating lines. Why stop there? 

The simplest rhyme is a couplet. A sonnet has three four line verses, ending with a couplet. 

I first thought of the scheme of a villanelle, which has sets of three lines, ending with a couple. ending iwth alternating rhymes, ending with a couplet, I can write a whole poem scheme with the word, or at least the rhyme choices, at the end of each line.

I could add a chart with columns and lines and the rhyming scheme, a and b, or starter rhymes, written in. You could take a traditional out of copyright song and remove all the words which don't rhyme, then either write a totally new poem with the original rhymes, or write in different rhymes, or all the words which rhyme. 

Let's take Twinkle twinkle little star as an example.

.. .. .. star

.. .. .. are

, ,, , ,, high

.. .. .. sky.

Firstly, you could reverse the rhymes

are

star

sky

high

Or you could choose another set or words with the same rhymes

... car

... far

...why

... high

Or list all the possible rhymes ending with the same letters

bar, car, far, tar,  

bar, car, far, tar,  

buy, bye, die, fly, guy, high, lie, my, nigh, pie, rye, sight, tie (verb), tie (noun), vie, why

buy, bye, die, fly, guy, high, lie, my, nigh, pie, rye, sight, tie (verb), tie (noun), vie, why

Here's a parody of Twinkle, twinkle little star, same rhyming scheme for a cautionary tale. I didn't intend to write a cautionary tale, but the first line led to the whole message.

Too Fast

by Angela Lansbury

If you drive too fast in a car

Alas, my dears, you won't go far

Best case a wheelchair, worst case die

In imaginary cars flying through the sky.

Set this task to a class of  30 pupils or to a set of thirty people at a writing circle. Or a game at a Christmas party with a tiny gift of a notebook from Daeso as a reward for the best effort, or buy a set of notebooks online at collective or wholesale prices and give each participant a reward for attending and effort.

You might get several pedestrian or failed rhymes which attract polite applause or groans. But if you get just one great result, that is good for the writer, entertaining for the other listeners, and can go in the magazine about your ornaization's year's events.

Books by Angela Lansbury, author, include:

Poetry Workshop workbook, first published 2008

Writing Poetry For Fun, first published 2008, republished in 2011

Animal Poems 2012

see lulu.com and amazon.com

We saw a Dinosaur, published in 2013

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