Tuesday, 3 February 2026

6 more weeks of haikuing through Winter

 Panic Point Perry saw its shadow yesterday - 6 more weeks of Winter!

Wonderful.

And we have had 6 weeks approx since December 21. And there are approximately 13 weeks per season ( 4 X 13 = 52 weeks/year). so what is one week more or less from the expected?

 So my fevered frost-bitten water-on-the-brain splitting hairs
has lead me to write 3 Japanese style poems, haikus, of
3 lines with 5, 7, and 5 syllables. And I don't know what got
into me but I decided to give Goggle artificial intelligence
the same info and see whether it could come up with
anything. It did, resulting in 5 poems - can you tell who
wrote what? 

Actually, I wrote a couple of poems before giving "HAL" all the information that I had - Fair Isle, Sea Pinks, several birds that I had photographed, and then with "HAL"'s  2 poems I wrote some more.

That means to me that the poems are not all that different/independent.


The poems have been arranged alphabetically by 1st line.
 
#1
Coastal windswept home,
Pink spheres on slender stems sway,
Salt air, sun-drenched life.
 
#2
Rainbows on hill tops,
Puffins reigning supreme.
Glad am I for this.
 
#3
Sea Pinks along the cliffs
Nesting with Puffins, Fulmars,
Nature Lovers smile.
 
#4
Sea pinks on the rock,
Fair Isle coast in salty wind,
Pink cushions hold fast.
 
#5
Sea pinks shimmering -
Dewy droplets lovers shed.
Fragile strength embrace.

I intend to illustrate each poem  in its own entry in the coming days.

I hope you will enter the spirit and tell the world why you think a particular haiku poem was written by either AI, aka "HAL", or by me, aka WOB . I shall consider how I proceed at a later date. Have fun.

 

WOB 

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