Anthem For Humanity

DEP AI vs HI book project

Stories are half humanity and half art both good and bad, sacred and profane, words that are born from every writer’s heart

and show pixels can’t replace gray matter a la carte — intelligence is artificial without a brain. Stories are half humanity and half art,

so you cannot ask us to love an upstart computer which tries to destroy an artist’s domain — words that are born from every writer’s heart

onto the page, like tears cried when we fall apart. Words display deep emotions: love, hope, loss, pain… stories are half humanity and half art

that show the greatest and worst ways we start to figure out this world. To me, it’s plain words that are born from every writer’s heart

become a child we nurture and cannot part from, unmatched by AI’s momentary, monetary gain. Stories are half humanity and half art — words that are born from every writer’s heart.

This poem is a villanelle, which is a French verse with a very specific rhyme/repetition/stanza length. The first five stanzas are three lines each, the last one four. The first and third lines of the first stanza repeat at the end of each following stanza, then form a couplet at the end of the poem.

There are too many good poets I’ve run across recently to name them all, but here are 3 recent poems that have made an impact on me and will hopefully resonate with you too.

“Motherhood” by Lena Hadi — a beautiful ode of gratitude to moms.

You can find a great explanation of how to appreciate each moment in time, even after it’s gone, in the poem “In This Moment” by Ccgordon.

A quiet moment of reflection in Penofgold’s poem “When You Start Receiving.”

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