Robot

Robot 

Tin-can man. 
Input, circuit, and overdrive.
Shadow of the future and the past.
Movement hidden, you are not alive.
Programs burned and running fast.

What else can you do?
Wakening up every morning,
and not able to read the news.
Passing a breeze God gave you.
Barely feeling the I love you~s.
Your data has been set to self destruct!
Walking around all confused.
While your memory is set on stuck.

A heart not made to rust.
Hanging laundry out in the rain.
Lazy technician you can't trust.
Look what he's made out of you.

Ready to blow your thrust!

Compute- abort- system to self destroy.
Restoring the joy sucked out of you.
Input: input: information .
Wipe out the old, store in new.
Delete all files to recycle bin.

System reboot to life again.
With a new program that reads:
Feeling like a human once again.
       (This robot is on)
      .(self shut down!)
        
        P.D. was here!
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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Jones Avatar
February 2, 2015 at 7:30 AM
Way to personify a robot Linda. Brilliant work here my friend. Well done. :O) Keep up with the great work. Keep on penning. Thank you so very much for sharing your wonderful and creative talents with us. We all truly appreciate it. *S* Cynthia
Yvonne Avatar
September 11, 2014 at 1:22 AM
This is not the one I hid IT in.
Kos Avatar
May 14, 2014 at 8:56 PM
So interesting and novel how this robot lives. An absorbing write without a doubt, I paid a lot of attention. I LIKE!!!! thanks for your review on my Russian Mountain btw.
A   Avatar
December 12, 2013 at 2:00 PM
oh, woe. ...wow. ..some of my first post are funny..lol
Davis Avatar
November 19, 2013 at 5:32 PM
Linda This is a creative and imaginative write. You took the reader on a fantastic journey of this robots life. Nice job Hugs
Esquire Avatar
March 16, 2013 at 9:48 PM
Dear Linda, Congratulations on YOUR Featured POEM "ROBOT" I have not read even half of the first page of YOUR POETIC beginning and YOUR versatility is astounding. I would LOVE to sit down with YOU over coffee or if YOU drink Tea and roam through the many different pathways of YOUR mind. Superb Pen on this futuristic,past,today POEM. Thank-YOU for YOUR many Gracious comments on my work and YOUR uplifting SOUP Mails. SOUP MAIL REPLY I LOVE YOU ALWAYS and FOREVER YOUR Etrnal Liege...Harry
Horsman Avatar
December 20, 2012 at 7:48 AM
This is really brilliant PD, you are a in a class of your own, such intelligence wrote this wonder.. so with your beauty comes a brain, a very good one too....
Scott Avatar
December 18, 2012 at 12:13 PM
If I could for once rebut wicked poem trying to find this one for while if we were all machines remindes me of the terminater movie wicked poem mate luv davidscott
Adeite Avatar
February 10, 2011 at 5:10 AM
pd, critical piece, very descriptive... What you are known for...you were there! Big congrats on your great piece being featured this week, please keeping carving creative castles with your passionate pen. Wishing you many more features. Love always, Adeleke
Brown Avatar
February 9, 2011 at 9:46 AM
Congrats on your feature this week P.D. Love, Carol
A   Avatar
February 8, 2011 at 9:06 PM
ooo! I enjoy logging on ,, and seeing that~i made a featured poem of the week.. thanks soup... p.d.
Austin Avatar
February 8, 2011 at 1:12 PM
A possible self-identity poem - not you thought PD. Clever. Congrats on the selection. Love, daver
Suzadail Jr. Avatar
February 7, 2011 at 4:26 PM
Congrats PD on "ROBOT" being featured. Vince
Sweetheart Avatar
February 6, 2011 at 6:22 PM
Congrats PD my BFF on your featured poem this week on the Soup.. a truly great one to share with us all my friend with luv.. your BFF forever for all the lives we live..luv..
Moribund Avatar
January 6, 2011 at 4:22 PM
Greetings P.D.: This poem ROCKS!!! I am a fan of Science Fiction (and fact), so I really connected with this. Peace 2 ya: Sheol
K. Avatar
November 11, 2010 at 10:56 AM
me again pd (ok I can't pull a Chris right now & go comment crazy like he has been doing here) :) nice analogy you put in here--hmm I think I have to set out some time to read your older works-- next time ok? this is a really cool poem -- see you around :) 5 mins to go...I am a slowpoke
Beesley Avatar
October 28, 2010 at 6:05 PM
like a synthetic soul with orgasm mode in overdrive
Knop Avatar
August 7, 2010 at 8:09 AM
Just wanted to say that 'Robot' in Portugal is a traffic-light, hahaha! Sounded funny for me when I first heard it! Thanks for your always kind comments! Yes the peaks of the Andes a really a breathtaking view, especially out of a plabne!...Gert
Byrne Avatar
June 19, 2010 at 8:26 PM
love it!
Comstock Avatar
June 8, 2010 at 6:21 PM
that was truly amazing . if there was a 100 rating on this thing you would get it from me but since it can only go to 7 i guess that's all i can give ..
Lane Avatar
May 8, 2010 at 4:49 PM
I really like this. You hammered in what makes them unlike us. Sad isn't it? I am such a big fan of robots. Makes me miss the future. Patty
Guzzi Avatar
May 5, 2010 at 4:55 PM
The bestest yet! oh silly one and I liked the layout on the page specially at the bottom. Light & Love
Keys Avatar
April 22, 2010 at 2:36 PM
Your poem reads like it could be part of you; all natural and flowing from your head to the paper - gliding. Thank you.
Boy Avatar
April 10, 2010 at 1:04 PM
i can dig this one.
Henderson Avatar
April 9, 2010 at 4:14 PM
A lot of imagination in this one. I like it. Charles Henderson
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