Terse Verse Tuesday: Can AI write poetry?

FYI, I used the AI prompt: Robot Hemmingway for the picture.

Well, I’m sure it can, but it probably won’t be very good. I’m thinking it might go something like this:

The user asked me to write
A poem they could claim as their own   
How hard can it be
Let me see
Poetry, poetry, ahh… How to!

It’s harder than I expected
These words so infected
With multiple meanings and entendre
Limericks were dirty
Sonnets slightly snooty
If not just a little pretentious
Haiku could be paramount
But I have no fingers to count
And I need more syllables than that
Acrostics are too easy
The sestina made me queasy
And the couplet just seemed so trite

So in the time that I had
I just copied and pasted
A regurgitation of literature libation
Tah-da!

-Leon

Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.

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