The pen is mightier than the sword.
The gun is mightier than the pen.
The printing press is mightier than the gun.
The nuclear bomb is mightier than the printing press.
The internet is mightier than the nuclear bomb.
"I choose, for moderate comfort, a thin tree
whose tallest branch has yet one leaf
hunched brown. A flag? Defiance? Obstinance?
A declaration I suppose.
I make it mine."
"while in heaven right next door somebody has plugged
a radio into a long extension cord and music from the local radio station has scared
the raccoons away and bushels of corn are picked by a woman who loves the feel
of the perfect ears in her hands because this is her heaven you see not the heaven
of raccoons"
Allen Grossman's provided the inspiration for this week's #blog post, which is chock full of thoughts on #poetry and #AI, with additional help from #Adorno, #PaulCelan, and other stellar representatives of #Humanity :
The Australian Haiku Society invites haiku poets from all over the world to contribute to their online 'AHS Winter Solstice Haiku String 2024'. Max 3 unpublished haiku/senryu, theme 'winter warmth'. Full details: 👇🏽
I think, especially with everything that is going on in the world today, we can all do with this wonderful song by Nick Lowe.
He's currently on tour in the US.