# Beachfront dreaming

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

**Published by:** [trpplffct](https://paragraph.com/@trpplffct/)
**Published on:** 2024-11-01
**Categories:** poetry, creatures, dreaming, higher, highku
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@trpplffct/wps218

## Content

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? The poem above is a highku, a poetic form inspired by the higher culture on Farcaster and the Japanese poetic form haiku.Collect this issue to support the onchain poetry digest.CollectDon't forget: we have a poetry grant round open on rounds.wtf now. Share your poem in the trpplffct channel on Farcaster, and get rewarded with ETH on Base. Open until 9 am CET on 3 November.trpplffct october poetry grant on Rounds.wtfRounds are how communities award people onchain.https://rounds.wtfLike what you see? Become a Trpplr. You will support me in making more poetry and newsletter issues, and you will get a voice in who gets the monthly poetry grant. Subscribe to my hypersub now:Subscribe to Trpplr on HypersubTrpplrs are sending ripples of poetry through the world, to make it more fun. As a Trpplr, you will get: & special poetry drops from me and up-and-comin...https://www.hypersub.xyzPoésie de la vie 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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