K. Morris's Blog, page 100
February 15, 2023
Miss Wong’s Sad Song
There was a young lady named Wong
Who sang many a very sad song.
When they said, “sing something glad!”,
She whacked them with her handbag,
Which was very wrong of Miss Wong!
February 14, 2023
Poet Kevin Morris Reads his Poetry on the World Poetry Reading Series
On Monday 13 February I was interviewed by Ariadne Sawyer of Vancouver Co-op Radio’s the World Poetry Reading Series, https://worldpoetry.ca/. During my interview I read a number of my poems and discussed my work.
My thanks to Ariadne and the World Poetry Reading series for their kind invitation to appear on the show, which can be found here https://www.mixcloud.com/VictorSchwartzman/world-poetry-cafe-for-feb-16-with-kevin-morris-and-randall-stephen-hall/
My segment appears approximately 10 minu...
February 13, 2023
What Happened When I Entered One of My Poems into Chat GPT?
Many of you (perhaps all) will have heard or read about Chat GPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool, https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/.
Having watched a couple of videos on Youtube, I was curious to see how Chat GPT would respond to my poetry. I therefore inputted the text of my poem “Midnight” into the search engine.
You can see below the results of my experiment. First, I simply entered the text of the poem and Chat GPT provided it’s interpretation of it’s meaning. Second, I re-entered ...
February 12, 2023
When a Pretty Young Lady Named May
When a pretty young lady named May
Knocked on my door on Valentines Day,
And my dear old wife Claire
Screamed, “are you having an affair!”,
I turned to my sweet mistress Fay …
February 11, 2023
Outside
Birds outside my window
Visit me today.
But they
Never stay.
Young women go
By on the street.
Their stilettoed feet
Tick tock like clocks.
And I rhyme
Of old Father Time
And clocks
That stop.
February 10, 2023
My Valentine’s Night
When a nubile young lady named White
Invited me out on Saint Valentine’s Night,
Miss Nell came as well
With the most Reverend Bell,
And the waitress she wore Angel Delight!
February 8, 2023
Twitter Limits Tweet Frequency
Yesterday evening I attempted to send a Tweet only to receive the message that I had exceeded my daily limit. I had not previously come across this and, following some Googling found this article in the Hollywood reporter which states:
“The company said it will now limit users to a maximum of 2,400 tweets a day, but users reported being prevented from tweeting far below that limit”, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/twitter-limits-tweet-frequency-1235320995/.
In addition to shar...
Scrolling
In constant scrolling
We find Gradgrind,
Doling
Out the same
Diet
Of pleasure and pain
To the unquiet mind.
February 6, 2023
When a Young Lady Brandishing a Cucumber
When a young lady brandishing a cucumber
Awakened me from my very deep slumber,
And I said, “Mis Parrot,
Do you fancy a carrot?”.
She said, “no, I’m brandishing this cucumber!”.
February 5, 2023
Vicar Ray
When my friend the good vicar Ray
Knelt, and said, “let us all pray”.
Sinful Miss Coral
Did something immoral.
And the ambassador urged diplomacy on Ray!
