please empty your brain below

Great job!

Does anyone really need to apply
When poetry now can be made through AI?

Here's one for Tower Bridge:

In London town where Thames flows wide,
Stands a marvel in regal pride.
Tower Bridge, a grandeur sight,
A crossing of strength, a beacon of light.

Its towers reach for the sky so high,
Guardians watching as ships pass by.
With arms outstretched, it spans the stream,
A timeless icon, a poet's dream.

In daylight's glow or evening's grace,
Its silhouette paints a picturesque space.
With intricate details, finely spun,
A masterpiece beneath the sun.

The bridge unfolds with majestic grace,
A symphony of iron, a dance in place.
Its drawbridge lifts, a grand ballet,
To let the vessels sail away.

Through history's pages, it stands tall,
Witness to triumphs, to rise and fall.
A symbol of resilience, of strength untold,
Tower Bridge, a story to behold.

So let us marvel at its span,
A tribute to the spirit of man.
Tower Bridge, a beacon of might,
Guiding us through the day and night.

A most enjoyable start to the day. Would AI have come up with ‘pontificate about bridges’?
> a poet who has been published in a recognised poetry magazine or journal

so probably not you
I hereby recognise the Diamond Geezer blog as a poetry journal.
Residence on a bridge sounds somewhat precarious, at least since old London Bridge was replaced.
Bravo! Five poems before breakfast. Enjoyed Blackfriars especially.
DG - I think you’ve passed the audition
EJ Thribb - where are you?
It's 10k plus travel expenses.

Who owns the work?

The need to be 'a poet who has been published in a recognised (by whom and how) poetry magazine or journal' is a fairly big gate to get through and in my view is suggestive of this being a publicity stunt because they already have a candidate.
You're hired!
Brilliant!
For some reason I'm hugely reminded of William McGonagall's odes to the Tay Bridge ...

... sorry!
There was a wobble in the middle.
We have a winner!
They were fantastic - a real lift to my day.
Here's one by Philip Larkin about a rather longer bridge
[Bridge for the living]
[With film]

It (or the second part anyway) was written as the libretto for a piece of music for the bridge's opening. The piece of music was not really my cup of tea.
As an employee of the National Poetry Library, I can confirm that Simon Armitage ought to be shaking in his shoes.
Ode to the Millennium Bridge (with acknowledgements to Sprout Eater)

There was a wobble in the middle
How to fix it? was the riddle
Engineers then came to fiddle
Adding stuff not bought at Lidl

Do I get the gig? Thought not.
Never before, since a certain Bridge
Was falling down, in London town

Has the lyrical muse spread its wings so wide
For the laurel wreath - or the tiger's teeth!
When all and Uncle Tom Cobleigh
Crossed the bridge it became wobbly.
The media loved to denounce
The bridge with a bounce.
But now it's been damped
There's no sway when it's tramped.










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