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[rayheinrich]

Image of the boardgame is stunning.

The stanzas about the ant and the racoon kinda ruined what otherwise I thought was some very cool lines.  I think you could lose those and actually enhance the power of the remaining lines.

TqB

Yeah, you're right; it's a better poem without those two stanzas so I took them out.
I sort of wanted something crude to change the poem up a bit, but they don't fit the
temperament, religious nature of the rest of the poem. Thanks

P.S. I liked the image too. You have no idea how many times I had to modify the prompts
and them give up and figure out new ones until I got mage to make one I liked.
The stable diffusion stuff (the process mage uses is notorious for not doing bodies
that well, but with the mood of the poem the misshapen bodies were exactly what I wanted.
(What stable diffusion does with bodies always reminds me of Hieronymus Bosch paintings.)
But when I'm interested in normal bodies it's a pain. I'll get a mage image I really like
only the person has six fingers or the horse has three legs. If I really love the image enough
I'll erase and redraw them in Photoshop. It's not that easy for me as body parts are hard
for me to draw so it sometimes takes a few hours to get rid of a finger. It's not just cut
and paste because I have to move the other fingers and alter the hand so the proportions
are correct. Haha, but it's fun.

I'm a fan of this one too. The image is worth the price of admission and the poem doesn't disappoint. Sometimes these prompts encourage enough interesting research, that the actual poems become secondary. At least 5 or 6 poems this month have led me down a path of learning something I never knew.

A lot of the time I do quite a bit of research while writing a poem. Just recently I figured out:
Well, what the hell, why not paste that below the poem... And yeah, sometimes when I'm
writing a poem the research is more fun than actually writing the poem. An image with the
poem and commentary afterwards... Maybe I should consider that all part of the piece.