It may interest you to know that I have, in some small way, aided and abetted a poetry-writing bot. It’s fascinating to read how the bot learned to write poetry.
O at the Edges
Musings on poetry, language, perception, numbers, food, and anything else that slips through the cracks.
O at the Edges 
It really was. It even managed a hexameter.
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That one line stood out!
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It really did. i was gobsmacked.
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An enviable line.
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Wish i’d written it. Had my head spinning.
The father of the light is not a fist of the bones.
Why of course, but why not & was it ever the case that it could have been? i ask the machine, it hums.
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I know! Damn bot!
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Universal inspiration. Nice! Now I’m imagining a synthesized voice reciting the new poetry, à la HAL and “Daisy Bell”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Bell
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Yes!
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My first thought was that is how people learn to write poetry, too.
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Yes, very interesting. Except we generally have some knowledge of words before starting. Ha.
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Very good point!
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Although we all start from that place of no language.
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So now we’re going to put the poets out of work? I don’t think so! Gotta send that link to a friend who’s working on AI. Cheers!
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Yeah, I’m not too worried about putting the poets out of work. 🙂
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