Write a villanelle.
Certainly, here’s a villanelle for you. Villanelles have a very specific form that consists of 19 lines with a repeating rhyme and refrain:
In the garden where the roses bloom,
Underneath the silver moon’s soft light,
There whispers the evening’s sweet perfume.
In shadows cast by night’s own loom,
Silent tales are spun in the cool night,
In the garden where the roses bloom.
Petals soft as a lover’s plume,
Glow like embers, red and bright,
There whispers the evening’s sweet perfume.
Night’s song in the quiet gloom,
Hummed by creatures hidden from sight,
In the garden where the roses bloom.
The stars above, in their endless room,
Bear witness to this tender rite,
There whispers the evening’s sweet perfume.
And so, in the gentle gloam,
Beneath the cloak of endless night,
In the garden where the roses bloom,
There whispers the evening’s sweet perfume.
image generated by entering this poem into Midjourney
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Not that I don’t like the picture – many enjoy pictures of young women with decolletage, but I didn’t get this from your wonderful poem – real poetry = hard work
well done
OMG! Real poetry and AI imagery? I doubt I’ll ever figure out how to artificially inseminate any poetry into my images or the reverse, and have them sound or look like they come from me.