Shadows meander
peacefully amongst the pines,
silent wolves keep still.

My friend Mike told me about Ellen Dittebrandt who was an impressionist artist living in Oregon who died in a car accident in 2014. This image is generated by Stable Diffusion and looks nothing like her art but, her name was used in the prompt. Clearly AI art-gen still has a ways to go.

Solitude never
feels so all alone, if you
share it with nature.

This image came from a simpler prompt which merely named the previously named artist. This engine, Stable Diffusion, although trained on 5.6 billion images gleaned from the internet, fails to appreciate the true nature of Dittebrandt’s work.

Styx allows passage
to any who pay the price,
annihilation.

This was created using Dall-e2. Hades sailing the river styx in the style of raphael.

I recommend Ellen Dittebrandt’s artwork, it’s rather pleasing.

Is the mirror a portal
to a world beyond your reach,
past comprehension or experience
beckoning you to join?

Would you leap through that surface
trusting failure to pluck you back
to this side of that shimmering veil?

Or, upon success, to linger there
breathing exotic scents
stretching in those rarefied airs
tasting elemental flavors
wishing never to return?

Migration over,
sexual frenzy concludes
in orgasmic bliss.

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Dappled orange melts
into an ocean of tears
shed in ecstasy.

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Descendants flourish
preparing to journey south
to sleep until spring.

Eventually
trauma fades like rotting wood,
residue remains

Crushed like a tin can
our metal conveyance fails,
loved ones suffering.

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Best laid plans founder
when submerged troubles surface
and pull you below.

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All images courtesy of OpenAI’s DALL-E image fabrication engine. (Yes, this is the real one, not the crippled version.)

Spinnerets
squirt jets of silk
joining pocket-sized stars
in a cosmic web of disconnection.

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Plurk has good news,
those grass pants you ordered
fit him like a well mowed putting green.

He wonders though,
if you forgot the wading boots
he uses beneath the old stone bridge.

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A version from the real Dall-e2 ImGen.