Best Byte Poems


Your Bug Is Bigger Than Your Byte

Mr. Malware Bytes
keeps byting my poor PC
Byte it again Bytes?
and I’ll byte you where the byte
don’t byte no more, so byte me!

Love At First Byte

I read the words you've posted on my screen; 
I lurk inside the Ethernet unseen; 
A token touch - all hesitant and new: 
My thoughts are reaching out from me to you.
A digital discovery is formed.
Two lonely lives, a linking now performed.
It isn't much - but smallest steps can do
Most wondrous things if we believe it true.
I do believe, and so open my heart; 
Put it on line, as online each impart
Ideas with such soft sentimental words
That touch the core, strike harmonizing chords.
But how I dream - a craving clawing clutch - 
To truly feel the realness of his touch!

February 27, 2016

Byte Size Food Begets Best Bedeviled Egg Head Benefits

Byte size food begets best bedeviled egg head benefits 
re: visited today April 12th, 2023

Way before aye knew 
the name Fletcherism applied 
family and friends even 
Smetana's bartered bride
would (tongue in cheek) chide
tummy uncommonly 
(recherché) atypical dyed
ded if the letter “y” one did elide
in the wool feeding 
and/or slaking thirst guide
did precepts sans hungry 

deaf eating beast impossible to hide
(the ferocious growling harassing imp - 
armed to the figurative teeth ready to pounce 
viz casus belli sans reeling off 
a pseudo say id dish us vicious jeremiad 
me, this unrepentant conscientious masticator, 
who re: lied
on self control unbeknownst 
to this pumpkin eater
(me not named Peter)
unwittingly followed 

the basic tenet of Fletcherism - custom made 
modus operandi vis a vis exercising okayed 
mandibular metered (when famished), 
eyes kept closed while tongue gently played
adhered to practice of eating small amounts, 
which discipline stayed
engorging self, and as a result 
(consuming sustenance 
only when hungry avoiding 
(wolfing like an instantaneous blitzkrieg flash) 
found me aware visa vis master car ding
marginal increase in pounds meaning 
thy body electric weighed

approximately for long stretches 
to enable safe passage for sturdy brigs
when a habitue at one or another dining digs
stuffed nibbling on hors d'oeuvre figs
adequately satiating with with oomf 
when contra dance caller Scott Higgs 
announced "hands four," which signal 
helped get my mojo back 
and reel lee deuce home jigs,
which indeed kickstarted and syncopated, 
oft times espying Bobby Riggs
who years gone back whiz Vic Tory huss 
e'en when donning apparel of Whigs
like colluding trumpetting molecules 
that via tiff Fanny doth zags and zigs.


Some Pros and Cons of Being Virtually Connected To Reality 2nd Byte

who felt incorporeal storied power 
   of Herman Melville as zen unseen aid 
instructing hypothetic rich kid to drop out of school 
   before his/her first grade
coz of all the money he/she made

which affected modus operandi rendered obsolete 
   child worker laws 
   and no sweat of brow getting paid
people used bitcoin (or other online currency) 
   additionally making purchases 
   with scant keystrokes to complete a trade.

As with any major dramatically novel scheme 
light bulb idea scribbled on napkin 
   scrap of paper 
   via cheesy or whipped cream
originating as a flash in the pan 
   aha eureka moment, or dream

as rough blue print subsequently 
   underwent beta testing, 
   before declaring pc innovation supreme 
whereby outstanding persons in the tech industry 
   clamored to join Kidde team. 

Whether seventh day add vent 
   hissed or other religious creed
powerful binary processing 
   impacted near 
   earth shaking incarnation indeed 
and ramifications in all walks 
   and talks of life sought expert need.

Coven chanting children murmured Luddites be damned! 

Thus spake Zarathustra (cue the opening scene 
from Planet of the Apes) 
   upon witnessing as if king or queen 
(in reality father or mother) 
   didst get immediately 

   dethroned thus, increasing mean
average positive 
   effects on society, especially lean 
microchip i.e. integrated circuitry 

   miniaturization "green"
technology (and eventual 
   attendant affordable price) 
   viz said trappings 

   unleashed upon global market 
   invited absolute zero dust, a must clean
as a whistle work space, 
   and manufacturers laboratory be microbe free
   hermetically sealed vacuumed "clean". 

Countless portable machines 
   unbeknownst soon epithet florid hack
   coining impromptu called cyber crime 
especially as majority proportion of population 
   didst purchase these dime, 

a doze in countless "end users" 
   snapped up these smart machines 
   excitedly keyed away indifferent to gunk
on unwashed hands 
   plus bits of food particles 

   eventually caking hardware with grime 
(eventually necessitating technician 
   charging gobs of moolah 
   sans to unstitch in time.

Byte Size Food Begets Best Benefits

way before aye knew 
     the name Fletcherism applied 
tummy uncommonly (recherché) atypical dyed
in the wool feeding and/or slaking thirst guide

did precepts sans hungry 
     deaf eating beast impossible to hide
(the ferocious growling harassing imp - 
     armed to the figurative teeth ready to pounce 
     viz casus belli sans reeling off 

     a pseudo say id dish us vicious  jeremiad 
me, this unrepentant conscientious masticator, 
     who re: lied
on self control unbeknownst to this pumpkin eater
     unwittingly followed 

     the basic tenet of  Fletcherism - custom made 
modus operandi vis a vis exercising okayed  
mandibular metered (when famished), 
     eyes kept closed while tongue gently played

adhered to practice of eating small amounts, 
     which discipline stayed
engorging self, and as a result 
     (consuming sustenance 

     only when hungry avoiding 
     (wolfing like an instantaneous blitz krieg flash) 
     found me aware visa vis master car ding
     marginal increase in pounds meaning 
     thy body electric weighed

approximately for long stretches 
     when a habitue at one or another dining digs
stuffed nibbling on hors d'oeuvre figs
adequately satiating with with oomf 
     when contra dance caller Scott Higgs 
    
announced "hands four," which signal 
     helped get my mojo back 
     and reel lee deuce home jigs,
which kickstarted, syncopated, 
oft times espying Bobbie Riggs

who years gone back whiz Vic Tory huss 
    e'en when donning apparel of Whigs
like colluding trump petting molecules 
     that via tiff Fanny doth zags and zigs.

Some Pro's and Con's of Being Virtually Connected To Reality 3rd Byte

Gooey glop getting suctioned out 
   technicians venting expletives 
   emphasized obvious 
   NO FOOD OR DRINK rule to abide 
cuz suctioning tower 

   or laptop presented vulnerability
   plus unforeseen downfall against fried
food and greasy hands ended up hide
ding in hardest to reach locale 
   on circuit board no matter how expert pried 

yelling out gratitude 
   to geek squad member helping 
   before he/she went out side door
eagerly awaiting 

   remotely controlled self driving vehicle
   transporting techie guru home
   to an obscure gated destination, 
   an uninterrupted distant, yet pleasant ride.

eventually amateurs encouraged 
   to tinker like an apprenticed tailor 
   akin as raw troubleshooting recruit 
   oft playfully feigned to be soldier spy 

 pretending to repair bowel of computer 
   when in truth visiting supposed shadowing dark side
   which lined illegal benefits of labor saving devices), 
the sound of silence 
(written on the subway walls) 

though heretics opposing 
   latest technology and felt sinister chill
(just ask Punxsutawney Phil), 
the Internet ranks as greatest dog sent rill

lee where wiz kids ranked 
   chatting killer apps with grateful dead
   information superhighway as heavenly manna 
   with artificial intelligence street cred
since introduction of white bread 
and powdered milk biscuits baked by Ahmed.


Premium Member Biological Byte

A glance is enough - She is hot stuff

It is love of a fashion - This steamy passion

She bites off his head - So he is dead

A mantis is born - The next dawn

Cookie Byte

There never were cookies in prayers
And facebook was caught unawares
Zuckerberg cried,
"Suppose they lied!
Let's prophet from Pubic Affairs!"

Byte Size Food Begets Best Benefits

re: visited tonight October 15th, 2021

Way before aye knew 
the name Fletcherism applied 
tummy uncommonly (recherché) atypical dyed
in the wool feeding and/or slaking thirst guide

did precepts sans hungry 
deaf eating beast impossible to hide
(the ferocious growling harassing imp - 
armed to the figurative teeth ready to pounce 
viz casus belli sans reeling off 

a pseudo say id dish us vicious jeremiad 
me, this unrepentant conscientious masticator, 
who re: lied
on self control unbeknownst 
to this pumpkin eater
(me not named Peter)
unwittingly followed 

the basic tenet of Fletcherism - custom made 
modus operandi vis a vis exercising okayed 
mandibular metered (when famished), 
eyes kept closed while tongue gently played

adhered to practice of eating small amounts, 
which discipline stayed
engorging self, and as a result 
(consuming sustenance 

only when hungry avoiding 
(wolfing like an instantaneous blitzkrieg flash) 
found me aware visa vis master car ding
marginal increase in pounds meaning 
thy body electric weighed

approximately for long stretches 
when a habitue at one or another dining digs
stuffed nibbling on hors d'oeuvre figs
adequately satiating with with oomf 

when contra dance caller Scott Higgs 
announced "hands four," which signal 
helped get my mojo back 
and reel lee deuce home jigs,
which indeed kickstarted and syncopated, 

oft times espying Bobby Riggs
who years gone back whiz Vic Tory huss 
e'en when donning apparel of Whigs
like colluding trump petting molecules 
that via tiff Fanny doth zags and zigs.

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