Put Down Your Device: A Poem-Song for Presence
What if the next time you reach for your phone, you let it rest—and listened instead to your own breath? During a recent meditation, I wrote a poem I called In Moments of Stillness and I’ve used an excerpt from it as the basis of my latest video artwork. I used Suno to turn the words into a hauntingly simple but memorable song that helps me recall the words when I need that reminder. And I used Midjourney to conjure the imagery and Kling and Hailuo AI to bring them alive. I don’t believe we must abandon smartphones forever—but we can choose not to let them fill every spare moment. Let this two minute piece be an invitation: to see the world around you without a screen, to feel your own pulse, and to remember that true connection often begins in stillness. I wrote the poem to help me remember…
Norm – A Story of Every Man and Woman
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