Welcome to the LoveMaker!
(v3.1 Erosoft Industries, \\C 1993)
At the prompt, please enter your
response.
I am the LOVEMAKER. A personalized, interactive poetry assistance program. What is your name?
> JOHN
What a nice name, JOHN. You must be a man.
> YES
How nice for you. Who is your poem for, JOHN?
> SHEILA
How nice for SHEILA. She must be a woman?
> YES
SHEILA must be very special to you, JOHN. Is she?
> YES
What is the occasion, JOHN?
> VALENTINE'S DAY
SHEILA is a very lucky woman. I will need information about SHEILA for a poem that best reflects your deep feelings for her, JOHN. What color are her eyes?
> BLUE
Thank you, JOHN. But could you be more specific? Are they blue like the sky after a clearing storm? Are they the icy blue of the far flung fjords, shrouded in mist and mystery? Are they the steely blue of Walter Gropius's later Bauhaus sketchbooks? Are they a cornflower blue that speaks of Sunday picnics in simpler times?
> THEY LOOK KIND OF GRAY WHEN SHE'S ANGRY
Thank you, JOHN. What about SHEILA'S hair?
> BLOND
Thank you, JOHN. But could you be more specific? Is it ash blond with some auburn like the silky tresses of Rapunzel? When the sun hits it in a certain way in the late afternoon does it look like spun gold? Is it the hard, cheap blond of the street-wise trollop or the dazzling, brilliant satin of Renaissance cherubim?
> I THINK SHE DYES IT
Thank you, JOHN. Are there any other characteristics we should mention in our poem to SHEILA?
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JOHN, are you still there?
> SKIN?
Thank you, JOHN. But could you be more specific? Is it fine and alabaster and tightly grained like antique porcelain, slow-fired by master craftsmen? Or is it pink and lustrous like the hand-burnished silver one's Grandmother might be found polishing with gentle, loving strokes on a rainy Sunday afternoon?
> SHE TANS TWICE A WEEK
SHEILA must be very special to you, JOHN. You must have deep feelings for SHEILA to write her a special VALENTINE'S DAY poem.
> YES
How nice for you, JOHN. What kind of poem do you think SHEILA would like?
> ?
My MENU (Alt+M) offers the following styles. At the prompt, please choose ONE:
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| Couplet | Triplet
| Quatrain | Eclogue | Pastoral | Sonnet | Elegy
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| Epic
| Ballad | Lyric | Ode
| Idyll | Haiku | ???
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> ?
That's O.K., JOHN. How do you see yourself? Please choose ONE:
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| Laureate
| Bard | Sonneteer
| Troubadour | Meistersinger |
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| Jongleur
| Versifier | Rhapsodist | Lyricist
| Other |
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> OTHER
Can you be more specific?
> I GUESS...
Perhaps if you briefly shared your innermost dreams and desires, JOHN?
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JOHN?
> I'M THINKING
May I make a suggestion, JOHN?
> SURE
Perhaps you imagine yourself a hopeless
romantic, JOHN. A man who lives and loves with passion and desire and appetite.
A man who grabs great platters from the groaning board of this world and
eats his fill. A man who takes what he wants the moment he sees it and
makes it his own. A man who kneads fate in his strong hands, shapes it
and commands it. A man with a reckless bent and the courage of fire. A
man who sees beauty in a raindrop and all the truth of the universe in
the eyes of a child. A man with needs and wants aflame within him. A man
of power and means of influence, JOHN. A man destined to be the envy of
other men. A man that few can ever understand and fewer still will have
the guts to love. A man of whom it might be said...
Would that Alexander in his age
had but half the measure of his
strong
stout heart or
clear hawk's eyes undimmed and
true,
pooled with azure purpose. No earthbound
mortal he,
but master o'er each and all...
Would this describe your self-image
accurately, JOHN?
> YES
I thought so. I'll use my random SEARCH MODE (Alt+S) to choose an appropriate style for you, JOHN. One that truly expresses your deep feelings for SHEILA on VALENTINE'S DAY. Please wait. To print poem, please enter command Alt+P at the prompt.
> Alt+P
Dear SHEILA,
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Your hair is blond
And your eyes are gray (when angry)
JOHN
Thank you for using LOVEMAKER v3.1 from EROSOFT!