Something will happen here one day. If not soon then sometime. Meanwhile, look at my Poetry Blog (link below). You might find that I've been a little busy in recent months! I'm starting to use AI to create audio versions of my poems - actual songs - so that is an exciting development. You'll also find links to my DeviantArt channels, where I am a prolific poster of poetry and AI art. I may not be active on RU-vid, but I am always busy. Always.
I've got a black cat, I don't understand the mindset of saying I'm only a dog person. I've never heard somebody who had a cat or cats who said they weren't dog people.
Thank you. I am always pleased when I see that someone likes this one, even better that you are a repeat visitor. I still consider it the best thing I ever wrote. It was certainly my most challenging single piece of work. I'm getting to the point where I want to use AI art to illustrate it and create an illustrated book version, graphic novel, call it what you will. I've been doing something similar for the last few years with shorter poems, including 3 (or is it 4?) of my most recent poetry books. This one would be on a completely different scale, so it makes me nervous. The capabilities of AI art had not caught up with what I wanted to do with it, but perhaps now they have. I just need to go for it, and that's not necessarily my strongest attribute! Thanks again for dropping by.
Near to 2024 and your narrations still pull me back. Been listening for about 10 years. Takes a real good voice to keep me coming back after all this time.
@@Gisburne2000 holy crap I never expected you to reply on here! I figured you’d lost this account to time, honestly. And indeed, you’ve certainly not been idle - the last few years I’ve had the pleasure of reading some of your poetry from your website. What ever your endeavor push on! Maybe I’ll see about buying a book or two.
@@ZippyMrMew You can try, but they are not for sale at the moment. Still working on that, but I prefer to give things away. I'm on DeviantArt as Gisburne (poetry) and Adadia (prolific AI art uploads!). Thanks for sticking around. One day I may make more videos, or I may not. 😁
@@Gisburne2000 Hey that would be awesome, but no pressure. I personally struggle with inspiration for creating things. Just remember you have loyal fans here haha
This is horrible... I don't mean to be a d*ck, no disrespect intended really, but this feels like some automaton or A.I reading... way too monotonous, emotionless and robotic. I swear it feels like my car GPS is reading me some Lovecraft. Other people seem to like it so hey, I guess to each their own, but I dunno this doesn't work one bit for me sorry.
Very sad. Another good poem on the subject of a soldier left disabled by a wound in the 1914-18 War, except told from the point of view of the wife who has to nurse him, is 'The Pensioner' by GA Studert Kennedy, who was an army chaplain in that war and was once well-known, although his poems are mostly forgotten and left out of the anthologies of war poems now. However, his so called 'dialect' poems, at least, are good. One of my grandfathers lost his foot in the First World War. Long after, my father, who despite coming from quite a lowly home, was accepted by Oxford University to read law, felt so stressed by the pressure of preparing for his final exams that he had a mental breakdown. He wrote home to tell his parents that he was sorry to disappoint them but he would be unable to cope with taking his final exams and would therefore not properly graduate and would leave University without a degree. My grandfather wrote back that when he was a young man, he 'stuck it out in the trenches in the First World War', and could not accept that my father could not 'stick it out at Oxford to pass the exams.' My father did take his exams, and he did pass.
After 300 years, Pope's verse Homer is still the best English translation. A window into a World thousands of years ago, when customs and values were often very alien to ours. Even the description of the animal sacrifice, a part I would often skip as of no interest, with this translation in this reading, I felt some hint of what it may have felt like in Homer's day, a vivid mixture of literal butchery and holy piety, that is completely different from most religions practiced today, although would have been familiar to the Hebrew priests of what most of us call Old Testament times. Unfortunately, like Milton's Paradise Lost, for modern readers it can be hard to concentrate on more than a little at a time.
Sorry, but this clunky northern English accent with about as much inflection as Hungarian and about as much emotional range as my sump pump... It's like listening to a police report being read into the record.
I bought the complete works of HP lovecraft a few years ago. I am finally getting around to reading it. After I read and reread each individual short story, I listen to it read out loud. Love it. We had an entire gothic section of American Literature in high school and we never read this. I asked my lit teacher why did we not. And then it turned into a 5 hour conversation about everything I have read. It’s a club and damn it it’s a beautiful club
Hi Nick, we've only known each other for a short time and I wish I could understand more of the content you are conveying. But I can already see that you have a very elegant and brilliant style. That impresses me a lot! I look forward to hopefully further conversions or virtual encounters. . .😎
