The Moon is the promise of the Sun Fear not, tomorrow will come Just look at its Astonished face Locked in place To think It cannot look away Not once Forgive us… Some things Are unspeakable Even in …
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Poems

AI generated image My son One day you’ll learn That love’s a kind of grief Delayed A journey with The ferryman Who must be paid You’ll learn to hold Love’s razor Sharp blade Just know Each cut Lets …
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I tried to sklent to see if you were enjoying Joep as much as I the Dutch poet at the pulpit (in his sanctuary) striking looking like an Old Testament prophet I heard the keys gentle Goliath struck to …
Read →Music made using my poems I have been experimenting again using AI to make songs from my poems. This is the first full ‘album’, the sound quality is not studio quality (and requires …
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Unread Lines # Defeated again By a shy Unwritten verse Trapped in the space Where hurt vibrates And vibrations hurt Another song Abandoned A failure of words? And all those lines That might have been …
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Poem and AI song & video Audio version (my voice) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Peter Pink-Howitt (@peterhowitt) We Are Dawn Shy moon Hiding with Dwining stars Slow sun Sauntering …
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Experimental AI album I also tried my hand at an AI generated album ‘The Silence Inside’: a mixture of some of my poetry and instrumental music all using similar prompts to give the whole …
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These ’translations’ were made relying on a number of sources including AI translations and, in respect of ‘It Is Possible’, relying heavily on Robert Bly’s translation …
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“Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still” (T.S. Eliot) I told my sad story to the wind and, brutal wind, It would not listen to a single word. So I sung to the cold cruel …
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It seems that we can never move straight or true. The distance between you and me destined always to be travelled concentrically. It appears that I digress moving at 90 degrees from my heart’s …
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poem for a wedding Write me a poem about being together… One wonders when to rhyme it with weather Or whether to say Weathering the storms altogether And yet like relationships The best lines of a …
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Shall I regurgitate those tired old tropes? Barbary apes, Rule Britannia Mottled Utrechtian paper With the keen eye of a British expatriate For the bleeding obvious Yet, when I see Gibraltar my heart …
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Palpitating Shiver of sea Sparkling splinter of Numinous ocean Gifted personality The Great Green Divested of all terror Its playfulness distilled to Living livery of wave I return new-born With …
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“ Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? ” (John Keats) A little piece of Heaven Fallen to the Earth Lightness made Heavy In the …
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In memory of Gerard Manley Hopkins Today I see the god In everything And everything to me Proclaims and sings And dances Like the dragonflies In spring Gentle reminder That the flame Is not the fire …
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’ I feel as if I’m losing all my leaves. The branches, and the wind, and the rain. I don’t know what’s happening anymore.’ - Anthony (‘The Father’) …
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Moon

Good Grief

Solipsism at St Peter’s
Between Man & Machine

Shorter Poems/Songs

We Are Dawn

The Silence Inside

Rilke ‘Translations’

Song for Derek

Coriolis Effect

Togetherness

The Seagulls And The Sea

Dolphins At Dawn (Off Sandy Bay)

To Hector

The Flame is not the Fire
