All Over Again/A Place In Time

All Over Again

I can feel it coming

deep down in my stomach, yeah

All this time I thought

nothing could tear us

Nothing but my illness

And the pills I swallow to keep me still

I can feel it coming

nervous for no damn reason

thinking I learned my lesson

but now I'm second guessing

lost and lonely, but I smile

numbing the pain for a while

But its always rising

a tilted horizon

blurred vision I cant see

it feels like you're right in front of me

But I know you're gone

and I'll never love again

its you or no one

my darling

Amanda Lvnar 2022

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I was just curious what this little star icon next to my text on my poem meant, and it was actually to prompt AI. I didn't know what I was doing it just said "for example make it funny etc" so I wrote "make it more poetic" and I didn't even realize I had a section of my poem highlighted. The line that says "all this time I thought" and so AI generated what I thought was a pretty good poem that sounded like it fit the rhyming scheme of my poem. AI wrote:

"All this time, I believed

in shadows cast by fleeting dreams

that whispers of the heart would weave

a tapestry of hope, it seems"

- AI

It sounds really pretty, but I think the use of fluffy words like "whispers" and "shadows" etc is a little overused in this, not to mention it doesn't make perfect sense.... to me. So, I rewrote it:

All this time, I believed

that Time could be

transcended through memories and dreams

and that would weave

a tapestry of hope in me...

-Amanda Lvnar

I think I would feel too guilty if I ever used this in a poem or as a poem.

I did the AI for another line in my poem and this AI is dangerous. I know I've been concerned about it for art, but what I want to know is, is there a way to test if something is AI because if not, because I could write a whole damn book with one poem with AI. I'm really not sure where the line is.... This was my first real interaction with AI.

(where daylight bends.... ) -pretty thought based on the AI I read. I think I might use that somewhere

....a tapestry of hope in me

because then theres moments

We've might not forgotten

that could be resurrected in our minds

instead of left to rotten

that is where we exist

there is where my spirit be

in the memories and dreams

of the people who remember me

^^^^^^^^ I felt like I needed to finish that poem. ( all of which is me unprompted by anything but my own thoughts and the aforementioned AI useage)

I'm never using AI again to write. Its a slippery slope.... and it makes me feel uncomfortable.

This would be the whole poem (I changed it a little):

A Place In Time

Its times like these that I believe

that Life could be

transcended through

memories and dreams

and that would weave

a tapestry of hope in me

because then theres moments

We've might not fully forgotten

that could be resurrected in our hearts

instead of left to fade and soften

that is where I truly exist

there is where my spirit be

in the memories and dreams

of the people who remember me

rest in peace Aunt Cinny Winny Feb 23, 1968-January 12, 2025

L-R Mom, Aunt Cindy, Ashley, Me

At the Home and Garden show 2022. It was a nice day.