The Beast of A I

By Yutka

Fri, 28 May 2021
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Its living statue stands high above the waves

in the beautiful light of curved matter

it equips the bare skin of the planets

with its own substance

 

Salt and honey of its mind

make the earth tremble, nothing

feels like an empty volcano

or an unpolished glass

what crowns the distorted silence

 

its fingers knock at space

smoke out clouds,

command the sea to hold its breath 

soft seaweed bows in stormy threat

before newly-bred drones

leave in increasing swarms

 

their scales sparkle in dying lightning

like falling stars

open new wounds in the crystalline void

bare trees, scars, incomprehensible signs

guard the mutilated air

remember

the last in Pandora's box was hope

 

Certificate U
Poem
Yutka's poems
Surreal

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Submitted by Nolan on

Try as I may I don't really understand your poem, not saying it is meaningless and is certainly lovely and very beautiful words. Is it a more modern style? The last line I think must be the key.

Keep well! Nolan &

 

Submitted by Yutka on

thanks Nolan, you are not alone when you say you don't understand my poem.  Each reader has to find his or her own way trying to understand, with the benefit of even only just an image or a phrase that will linger and make one think.

The style is just my own, nothing else. The last line is indeed the key: not to be frightened by AI but give it a chance, who knows it could be helping mankind to achieve much more, thats where hope comes in ..(do you know the story of Pandora's box? well worth researching...you see one thing leads to another, that's why poetry can be so very interesting... and interpreted in many ways...

hope you are well

Yutka

 

Submitted by Nolan on

I agree with you fully, a poem says what the reader reads and not what the poet writes. For instance in the song "born in the usa" Bruce Springsteen says it meant something completely different and is not a patriotic song at all, but the opposite. Well see, for me and most of his fans, it is,

Born in the USA!

Thus it means you must always be very very careful. I will read up on Pandora's box I had it from a film I saw I believe it was something really terrible unleashed. I have some very good dictionaries on Phrase and Fable will look it up although I do see how it could fit in.

Yes I am quite well thank-you! Nolan &