Pruned by snails
and birds and humans, the
flora in the park grows back more lush,
more colourful, more rich,
every year.
In our garden, and in the local park, plants and trees are exploding with colours at the moment. Some, like the daffodils and croci, just pop out of the ground, where their bulbs live unseen the rest of the year. In other cases, especially in the trees, we see the spring part of the yearly cycle return in ever-bigger-growing trees. The fruity trees in the park, but also our own young olive tree and the avocado trees that we grew out of the stones ourselves, are going through the yearly cycle, but are now bigger and stronger than last year. It’s reassuring in a way. There are sometimes setbacks, but in the end, we grow back stronger. Something like that.
At the very least, the beautiful blossoms are bringing liveliness to the world around us.
Poésie de la vie
And the daffodils look lovely today. They really do, and they do always bring this song to my head. A song that always picks me up and brings me to a wonderful place. Sometimes, the poetry of life hides in enjoying the music.
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Poetry elsewhere
I love the imagery in this poem by
from Tumbleweed Words. It’s filled with melancholy, but I just feel the beauty of a seaside town. Enjoy going home:You probably have heard of AI. And maybe you have an opinion on it. Of course, there’s the potential of it being abused to create images “in the style of…”. But that’s not the promising part of it. Nor the interesting part. Poet Leon Faesulis has been training his own AI language model. He lets it analyse his poems, then uses that analysis to generate a sentiment-based image with a generative art neural network. It’s on the cutting edge of creativity, and his poems are great, too. Enjoy this piece, Neuroverse #5, from his collection Neuroverse (pixelPoetica):
If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not making anything. We are trying hard to teach our kids that making mistakes is all part of the process, and that it’s okay to make mistakes, as long as you learn from them. And it is really true: if you don’t make mistakes, you make nothing.
has a wonderful poem about precisely this. Enjoy Drafts: