lunatic fringe (poem)

lunatic fringe lay straight ahead,

delta base's final image transmission

too grim for mere words...

(long heavy silence)

no turning back,

course undetermined.

idling in the unknown,

shell shocked crew...

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(Words mine. Image created with starryai a collaborative process called synthography. Thanks for reading. This haiku that went off the rails was the birth of my Lunatic Fringe short story. Currently I write more poetry than prose, when I do write more short stories & flash fiction it will be found on baccusbee story tree.)

(Lunatic Fringe first debuted on X in an early draft and on my substack.)

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ancient knowledge times far gone,

wave upon wave

like wave upon wave

war's lasting moral

renegade day lore

conspiring for peace & a talk with an angel

conspiring for peace

just a dream

our dreams

|The New Synthographers (gallery)

TL/DR : The Short Version: If photography is "capturing light," synthography is "distilling language." I feed my poetry into a digital "imagination camera" that translates my metaphors into patterns and pixels—turning the DNA of my writing into a visual landscape. Synthography it is. In short, it means human and AI collaboration to create an image, video, or song. More in depth from Google: "Synthography is the emerging art form of creating images using artificial intelligence (AI) models, a process distinct from traditional photography (which captures light) or digital painting, where an artist uses prompts, parameters, and iterative refinement to generate visuals from text or other inputs, essentially "writing" or "drawing" with an "imagination camera". It combines "synthetic" creation with "graphy" (writing/drawing) to describe the skill of crafting detailed prompts and tuning AI mo...

terrible poet & pixelated quill

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