Poem # 16/ Poema # 16

Título original / Original title:

Palabras y Pinturas / Words and Paintings

Introduction

(Feel free to skip Introduction if you’ve read previous poems in my serie).

As I’ve mentioned before, this series — Alchemy of Poetic Words / Alquimia de Palabras Poéticas — is a project I began in 2013. It’s a quiet collection of poems born from memory, emotion, and fleeting moments, carefully gathered over the years in my notebooks. Back then, I dreamed of turning them into a book, each paired with original illustrations by Salvador Jaramillo, a gifted designer and colleague from Mexico. Salvador illustrated works by Indigenous writers, and his art carries a deep, poetic connection to Mexican culture.

Here we are with another poem
If you feel curiosity to read the Poem #15 you can read it here: https://inleo.io/@aljif7/poema-15-llevas-dinero-do-you-bring-money-mnh6a2io9443a250?referral=aljif7

Salvador design’s are ended after 7 Poems. Then, I am doing the experiment this time with the help of AI to generate an image for this poem number 16. In this one I wanted to play with words and makes an evocation of what it makes to think about abstract concepts of Words and Painting.

Therefore, here we are with poem #16. This one is simple and short, trying to show up the contrast of images; accustic images vs visual images. Maybe it could be longer, but for now I am sharing my original idea.

Spanish Version

Palabras y Pinturas

Palabras y Pinturas

¿Qué son las palabras?

¿qué son las pinturas?

Palabras que dibujan …

imágenes que hablan.

(Image generated with qwen.ai, author’s prompt.)

English Version

Words and Paintings

Words and Paintings

What are words?

What are paintings?

Words that draw…

images that speak.

(Image generated with qwen.ai, author’s prompt.)

# # # The Experiment#

# # As I have mentioned before — I am surprised with the result from AI for the illustration, I was expecting to get something not related with the idea of these mini-poems, as I was after no more illustrations. And after long weeks waiting for this poem, illustration is doing a good match in my opinion.

For a free version of A.I. is not bad the result. Well, maybe later I can check with better tools something much more expressive. In the meantime, I am doing my best to retake my poems and share them here. The challenge sometimes is to keep the same feeling from Spanish to English. It also recalls the moments when I did the compilation of them from different notebooks .

I am still thinking about the experiment of selling a version with no images. I am getting the idea to sell my +50 poems in Spanish without illustrations. Something cheap to experiment about selling my first Digital product. In the meantime I am having fun with the results of images with AI for my poems. At the same time, in addition to me recall those feelings when writing each one, it also give me sometimes new ideas.

Thank you for reading — and for holding space for these small, searching into a dream!

Thank you much for your support!