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The Star and The Hermit

You've gone out to see who's splashing around in your pool at this hour of the night.

Art by Alai Ganuza

Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!

Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.

eternal present

another haiku from April 1st

Happy April! And national poetry month!

I write this haiku about staying up late reading with my roommate.

For the third year in a row, I am writing haikus every day in April! This is my first one from April 1st. I will try to make one of these every day.

The ai app I use to make these just added a watermark which I was a little bummed about. Bahhh the gods of capitalist paywalls have smited me once again!

I hope you are all having a wonderful day :))

i wrote this poem in a car ride home from a music festival at the end of the summer. it one of those poems that i wrote because everything was so perfect in the moment and i had to write something down to capture the moment. :)

a classic i-don’t-fit-in poem

another haiku from april ❤️

I wrote this little poem based on a picture I took when I saw a cracked mirror on a Philly street in the rain. I then put the image though an ai art generator. I was so amazed at how beautifully it turned out, and so I wrote a short poem to go along with it.

a show about love 

finding calm in the 5-7-5 of it all

i’m a fan of the dumbo octopus :)

creatures, critters, and overall creeps from patreon!

a haiku of comfort

a poem about trying to let someone go

i fell in love with this book a little while ago and this illustration is just beautiful and makes me remember why i loved it so much

A tribute to my favorite book, Neverwhere by @neil-gaiman

Shout-out to all the stories that didn't make it out of the shower with us in time to be actually written down.

talk soon

4/24/22

i wrote this one after getting off the phone with an old friend

to run after being kissed

it’s not a haiku guys! i wrote this a while back to be lyrics, but i thought i would have some fun in ai and make something to pair this writing with. not my usual topic to write about but it’s fun to switch it up :)

prompt: describe yourself in the form of a recipe!

here’s mine:

start by basing your soup in a hearty vegetable broth, complete with jersey tomatoes and twigs and flowers from random philadelphia parks or the jersey pine barrens. sprinkle in paprika, the smiles of her family and friends, saffron, and her collection of rocks and shells from the shoreline. add in her favorite phrases from the current book that she’s reading to enhance the flavor. as the soup simmers, you may hear the sounds of dodie, pinegrove, queen, gorillaz, and her current obsession of carol king. serve in a colorful bowl designed like a mosaic in barcelona. all other ingredients can be found while mindlessly walking through the aisles of a philadelphia trader joe’s.

a question, a dance

4/23/22

Ronnie the Snail

4/21/22

4/21/22

Unto

Ever Had

this haiku was inspired by a John Legend song

4/20/22

4/19/22

Golden hour

4/17/22

cigarette

After all

4/16/22

4/15/22

Barcelona calls

Deja vu

4/14/22

4/13/22

looking for a sign

thoughts about the jwst

since the jwst is on everyone's minds right now, i want to take a second to remember voyager i, our little interstellar probe that could. it's out past the sun's reach now, traveling away from us at nearly 40,000 mph. and it carries with it the "golden record".

we knew when we sent it that it would eventually leave the solar system, and would someday -- many, many years in the future -- find another star or solar system. eventually. the laws of physics demand it.

and so we put a record of ourselves with it. just in case -- in the highly unlikely, but still possible, event that it happened upon a world with intelligent life that could understand it. our message in a bottle, cast out into the endless sea of space.

we recorded our voices, in many languages. we recorded the sounds of wild animals, of insects, of water rushing. we recorded brainwaves.

ann druyan's brainwaves, in fact. an hour of them, as she thought of all kinds of things.

she and carl sagan worked on this project together, and over the course of their work, they fell in love.

she took the time, during the recordings, to think of him, and how she felt about him.

so that love -- not just earth's existence, or its sounds, or human voices, but love -- would be sent out in our message, cast out into the ocean of space, in the distant hope that someday, somewhere, something would see it and hear us, and know us, and know how we feel.

even if voyager i never finds another life in the universe, even if the golden record is never played, i think it's important that we sent it anyway. what it says about us as a people, our hope and our optimism and our faith and our love -- we cast this all out into the stars.

"dare to cast thy bread upon the sea," indeed.