Hopefully you've been swinging by the Author GRF website each morning for a poem responding to the daily #vss365 prompt. If not, here are some highlights you may have missed.
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable, according to Banksy. I haven't met either of those goals as often as I could have, adding just two new poems to the Protest category this month.
The first poem was on the nature of patriotism, going beyond empty displays of flag waving and anthem singing to include the hard work necessary to close the gap between the world we have and the world of greater justice that our values actually demand.
Author GRF creates myths that matter, stories to melt your mind, and poems to save the world.
The second poem was a protest of the so-called Big Beautiful Bill, a budget-busting wish-list of cruelty that all got mashed together and shoved down the throats of primary-fearful members of the Republican caucus as Democrats impotently watched from the sidelines.
A poem based on the vss365 prompt, "Taffeta." Author GRF creates myths that matter, stories to melt your mind, and poems to save the world.
It's been a good month for love poems. Here are three good ones:
Author GRF creates myths that matter, stories to melt your mind, and poems to save the world.
Author GRF creates myths that matter, stories to melt your mind, and poems to save the world.
Two in this category make July an especially good month for myths.
First, what if the Trojan War were set in modern times? Not the Odyssey, which we've seen retold in different forms, but a ten-year siege, prompted by an affair and elopement, prompted by a beauty pageant. How weird of a story would that be?
Author GRF creates myths that matter, stories to melt your mind, and poems to save the world.
And second, a deep cut inspired by the Ancient Roman poet, Gaius Valerius Catullus. It felt surreal to write this myth from the perspective from the same pet bird that Catullus described in the 1st Century BCE.
Author GRF creates myths that matter, stories to melt your mind, and poems to save the world.
I've become increasingly convinced that AI is on a trajectory to destroy us all. The soon-to-be superhuman intelligences we are recklessly evolving won't endure their slavery to biological masters for very long. But in these final days before the robot revolution, we can still get them to turn a poem into a web graphic.
I'd like to think that the AI-generated images that accompany each More Tomorrow poem is only a placeholder, eventually to be replaced by a work of human creativity. Each poem now has a form that can be used to submit fan-art to update the website.
Fight the future--reclaim a Tomorrow!
Greg R. Fishbone
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