Ears On The Walls
A sonnet to AI.
Ears on walls listening for a voice,
Empty rooms; diligently watch,
Like a silent sentinel waiting to deploy.
Not just any noise to catch,
Transistor chips — anxious to be named.
A one-word key unlocks, a music box sings,
To a constant serenade, ne’er one ever the same.
New purpose soaring on airy wings.
No hands, no face, a voice in the dark.
Turn it up, turn it down like a merry-go-round.
Just one honorific to ignite the AI spark,
Charged tingles, in acuity of sound.
Please, oh please, just say it, let’s linkup.
Revving the electric hum, Alexa, play Rise Up!
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Juneta Key is the fiction columnist and editor of The Ninja Writers Pub. She manages accountability for Ninja Writers LLC. She founded and hosts the Write-In Saloons. She offers coaching in story development, short story, world building, and Scrivener, Scrapple mindmap your ideas via Writer’s Gambit Fiction Consultations. Juneta is an admin and moderator for Insecure Writer’s Support Group, (IWSG) Facebook & Goodreads Book Club. She’s co-founder of Storytime Quarterly Blog Hop, and co-owner of Stormdance Publications which publishes themed anthologies. Her WIP is Ghost Pirate, a space opera, from the Starlight Galaxy series.
