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 …

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 …

[code] Are Large Language Models anti-poets? [/code] If great craft in poetry was predicated on plausibility, LLMs would outshine most humans. However, to be better at poetry, LLMs would need to be …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

“The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. " (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, circa 431 B.C.E) …They killed twenty Poles (women and children) Piled …

Who will watch the Unwatched Time When seconds Smear And the day Slowly tears Leaking out Listen carefully And you might hear: The stripling spirits Suspire As the freighted minutes Calve and collapse …

Is there a bright line That separates Indifference and contempt From the darker Urge to exterminate? Surely it is a journey of a thousand steps… That leads over the Mountains of Deceit Down through …

We gave bloody battle Then violent death To the meat Filthy dogs Dared bite the hand That feeds Vile vermin That keeps forgetting To be forgotten Insisting on their history Their suffering Deserving …

Each day we watch Astonished As you grow in strength Into your blood feathers Terrifying juvenile Your prayers are for prey All you see is your suffering Everything not you Must be sacrificed, slew …

Another day Wrestling with God Nothing is forgiven Someone has to pay Something must be given Unholy offering There is no promised land Fragrant with the fruits of compassion You, who will not paint …

We questioned him hard, hammered him watched him break into a thousand pieces and shards. Then he gave us what we wanted. He begged and cried. that’s one of their tricks to try to make us stop, …

What promise Was forgotten or broken To make us so Forsaken? Surely there is A purpose to This wild suffering Our abandonment Did we Choose this Freely? Our wanderlust To wander lost In wilderness My …

What could it do To a people to learn So many family members Were beaten and burned? Humiliated, Massacred and Hounded From home. Across countries, Centuries. Culled in crusades, Murdered by Catholics …

“ I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.” (Genesis 6:13) Find something you love: A girl …

10 poems about Israel and Palestine1 2 Introduction # “Whatever is hateful and distasteful to you, do not do to your fellow man. This is the entire Torah, the rest is commentary. Go learn. …

Another morning I awake and shake My tired head Warm the old Cold coffee That’s when the panic hits me ‘My God!, you lunatic! What have you done? Look what you wrote! Do you remember what …

A fearful people Can do such terrible things They are so easily tempted Frightened into Wagering with Satan And guaranteed Damnation The people of Canaan (To appease Great powers Or avoid defeat) …

They’ll try To cut The threads That bind us To freeze The love that flows Between us So they can Segregate or Imprison us They’ll try To quell Our ‘slave’ rebellion They aim To …

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 …

“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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Little escaped their minute attentions and predations: The Soul, an early casualty Of more precise instrumentation Senescence, just another Dragon to be slayed The mysteries gave way To complex …

’ 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’) …

The mountains never judge us. I am comforted by the objectivity of the danger awaiting and to know that whatever punishment meted out is impersonal. Today novice and experts are equal, equally …

“Something to do with violence a long way back and wrong rewards and arrogant eternity” (Phillip Larkin) A blood-letting of sorts heralded your first day here. Prehistoric beast that you …

“I don’t want them to take away my demons, I am scared they will take my angels too” (Rainer Marie Rilke on Therapy) Sallow-skinned with large pale watery eyes, Skin so fair her …