Yesterday (18 November), I spent a couple of hours experimenting with Google Bard. During my experimentation, I asked Bard to write a poem about a dissolute old rake. The poem, which had no input from me can be found here, https://g.co/bard/share/b6c44ae0e9c3
Whilst I don’t think Google Bard is going to become the next Poet Laureate, it is nonetheless interesting to observe how the artificial intelligence (AI) “composes” poetry.
K Morris - Poet 
It’s quite good, Kevin
I agree that Bard is quite a competent poet. However, some of the language doesn’t make sense in the context in which it is employed by the AI. I suspect that Bard has scraped the internet for poetic fragments (admittedly most of them relevant to the poem in question), and utilised them, rather than creating something truly original. Of course human poets draw on the poetic tradition (sometimes consciously and at other times subconsciously), but, in doing so most poets are aware of the drawing on tradition and the best human poets produce something new and original. I don’t think that Bard does this at this juncture, and I am not sure that it ever will. But I suspect its poetic abilities (if abilities is the correct word) will continue to develop, and I will continue to play with it. Thanks for commenting. Kevin
I don’t think human poets have anything to fear from Google Bard.
You may well be right, Liz. Bard lacks emotions (obviously as it is an AI). It can not be inspired by birdsong, death Etc. What it can do is draw on a vast wealth of poetry already out there online and utilise that.