by Mary E. Lowd
Composed on Threads, 12/16/2023
Creating images
Through conversation
Adjectives for a paintbrush
My chisel is verbs Continue reading “Sculpting with Words”
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I Wrote a Poem While Walking on the Beach
by Mary E. Lowd
A Deep Sky Anchor Original
I write down my words
And save them carefully
This is me
And I value me
These words are a snapshot
Of myself in this moment Continue reading “I Wrote a Poem While Walking on the Beach”
A Drop of Blood
by Mary E. Lowd
Composed on Threads, 12/16/2023
That feeling when
Every possible thing
You could do seems too hard…
Except for writing poetry Continue reading “A Drop of Blood”
Follow the Rules to Ruin
by Mary E. Lowd
Composed on Threads, 12/16/2023
We make up rules
To help survive the chaos
But when the chaos
Changes the world
So the rules no longer make sense Continue reading “Follow the Rules to Ruin”
The Cosmos’s Dog
by Mary E. Lowd
Composed on Threads, 12/15/2023
We are all the cosmos’s dog
Companion to the universe
Small, short-lasting flickers
Of friendship
And exuberance Continue reading “The Cosmos’s Dog”
Just Block Me
I’ve heard the line, “Amateurs borrow, professionals steal,” since I was a kid. It looks like it’s a permutation of something Picasso said.
I don’t know how so many artist/writer/creator/whatever communities have drifted so far away from that. Continue reading “Just Block Me”
Illustrating “Summers on Sylverra”
The advances in AI these last few years have been truly magical, the absolute best thing that have happened during my lifetime.
For this piece, I experimented with pasting the whole damn story into ChatGPT & asking it to come up with an illustration. It took a lot of editing to fix it up right, but DALLE3 captured the heart of the story on its first try! And it complimented my world-building! So, win-win. Continue reading “Illustrating “Summers on Sylverra””
The Hierarchy and the Ceiling
I read a beautiful post on Twitter about outgrowing social groups that used a repeated refrain about those groups each having a hierarchy and a ceiling. So, I used Suno AI to make this short song inspired by it.
The Multitudinous Conversation
by Mary E. Lowd
A Deep Sky Anchor Original
The universe is a machine
For generating conversations;
When every possible conversation
Has been had,
The multi-verse will be complete. Continue reading “The Multitudinous Conversation”
Several Octopuses in a Trench Coat
by Mary E. Lowd
A Deep Sky Anchor Original
If you look under my skin
You’ll find a collection
Of several octopuses
Trying awkwardly to cooperate
To steer this human-skeleton-mecha-thingy Continue reading “Several Octopuses in a Trench Coat”