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Space Library

(Poem 351 for 2024 – I am writing a poem a day)

AI Generated image I prompted on Gencraft.com https://gencraft.ai/p/7DkZgi

Reading books in a space library,
unburdened by insignificant
things like gravity or air,
makes for a floating good time.

No day or night means
reading as long as the story
calls for, the library is open,
and the coffee or tea is flowing.

Of course, no one can hear
the laughter that spills over
from the funny parts because
there’s no sound in space.

And if a particularly poignant
part wrenches unbidden tears
from weary eyes, they are unable
to fall; there’s no crying in space.

@Home Studio – 351st poem of the year

Runner ups for the Space Library photos to accompany my poem:

Belladonna Grimm

(Poem 299 for 2024 – I am writing a poem a day)

AI Generated image I prompted on Gencraft.com https://gencraft.ai/p/PUezMq

If you knock on the door
of Belladonna Grimm
you are likely to encounter
a place cluttered and dim,
for never does she clean,
iron, straighten, or dust.
All her walls are moldy,
cook pans coated with rust.
She’s too busy reading,
discovering something new,
engaging in experiments,
trying to cure the flu.
Her conversation ranges
from alchemy to zero,
constellations, philosophy,
how to become a hero.
She zips around night and day
doing who knows what.
Some suspect she is a witch
or a crazy cuckoo nut.
She doesn’t notice anything
but what she is working on.
It’s rumored she eats dinner
at the crack of dawn.
Belladonna Grimm
doesn’t care what people think,
unless they are interested
in her work with medicinal zinc.
So don’t waste your time
hoping she’ll conform;
she’ll keep you there all day
helping her brainstorm.

@Home Studio – 299th poem of the year

Little Miss Muffet

(Poem 144 for 2024 – I am writing a poem a day)

AI Generated image I prompted on Gencraft.com https://gencraft.ai/p/91qgAd

Little Miss Muffet
sat on a tuffet,
eating her curds and whey;
along came a spider,
who sat down beside her,
and frightened Miss Muffet away.

The very next day
she came out to play,
determined to overcome fear;
the spider returned,
and Miss Muffet learned,
to say hello with cheer.

Now that she’s older,
Miss Muffet is bolder,
and nothing affects her outlook;
she stays outside,
takes everything in stride,
and continues reading her book.

@Home Studio – 144th poem of the year