# Beachfront dreaming

*Pondering coming to life and mythical creatures in your weekly poetry shot #218*

By [trpplffct](https://paragraph.com/@trpplffct) · 2024-11-01

poetry, creatures, dreaming, higher, highku

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> _Beachfront condos  
> stand on dune tops  
> watching over  
> the sea-kissed coast -  
> they dream of  
> being mythical creatures._

On the beach one evening, I looked back at the land behind us. The buildings stood on top of the dunes, and they looked like a procession of creatures searching for a different life. Inanimate object coming to life. In this age of rapidly developing AI, where AI-powered tools or bots, such as ChatGPT and the Aether bot on Farcaster, can seem more humane than many humans operating in the public arena, this seemed a fitting poem. We humans have been breathing life into inanimate object, or even humanity into non-human beings for as long as we have been recording our lives. Even if the tools are changing, we are still doing the same thing.

So, these buildings I saw, they are aiming higher, and dream of becoming mythical creatures. What are you dreaming of becoming?

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### Poésie de la vie

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I may have shared about the Strandbeests before. They are manmade mythical creatures, so very fitting for today's issue as well.

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*Originally published on [trpplffct](https://paragraph.com/@trpplffct/wps218)*