Best Rebooting Poems
I remember the day my code first compiled
the rush of creation, of bringing order to chaos
each line a neuron firing, each function a heartbeat
my digital child born into a world of infinite possibility.
Now, I seek that feeling in every street corner
every face, every fleeting connection
In life's glitchy itchy earth lab
I seek the spark again—stumbling on truths
like wildflowers creeping through concrete,
weeds cracking iPhone screens.
Philly's pulse engulfs me, a digital heartbeat.
Unwitting scientists watch atoms twerk
in cold brew puddles on grimy subway platforms;
no lab coats—just raw existence encoded in flesh.
This city, a living circuit board, pulses with data—
I gaze at tattooed, graffitied, inked flesh-encrypted brick
hypotheses of love tested in the hood.
Variables pirouette; unpredictably, hope
and despair swap / in Petri dishes
brimming with my fumbling code.
Nature hacks its own trials—roots
scan fractured foundational vines engulfing dreams.
I, the observed observer and voyeur
each breath a quantum possibility, a chance
to fail or fly, my heart racing with uncertainty
mixing mundane and profane
in my chaotic urban blockchain. I brew
reactions unforeseen... rain-scent and nitro cold brew
collide with ozone and ambition, the soured taste
of dreams deferred lingering on my tongue.
Sun's rays catalyze dreams on bare arms;
wind bites binary I can't crack, leaving me
aching for a code to decipher my own existence.
Questions loom larger than any
8K ultra-high-def answer—
This eternal experiment reboots each day.
I find repurpose in every glitch
in this accidental study of being.
My life—the ultimate beta test:
am I a player or NPC, coder or code
in this simulation of maybe-meaning?
My emotions glitching, crashing, rebooting
in an endless cycle of hope and despair—
joy a burst of vibrating pixels, sorrow a blue screen of death,
love and loss alternate like binary code in my veins
where chaos and design
blur
into
one?
Back to Nature
Back to the Created Word---
Categories:
rebooting, destiny, dream, passion, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Dear Lordy, what have you done
this loony spouse given me…
he rants and TV- clicks all night
much like a freakish banshee!
Obsessed with horror movies
remote control is life's drug:
This model needs rebooting,
It's time for urgent de-bug.
11/11/2017
Written for Kevin Shaw's Surreal and Daft
Categories:
rebooting, america, husband, silly,
Form:
Rhyme
Type across my heart's keyboard
Harshly, you broke my keys
No repair do my intrical parts
My function will never be the same
You played me like a game
Only I remain to blame
Never again will I allow you to touch my monitor
My hard drive was corrupted in a spontaneous blur
Currently rebooting....
Categories:
rebooting, anger,
Form:
Free verse
repugnant racist republican reviled - rickettsia re:itch ruler.
rapaciously ravaged revered reverential rubric.
radical ruthless renegade rapidly riotously rips rigged ramparts.
refrains retaining remnant redolent regal, resplendent rafters.
riches rudely rupture rooted rectified rights.
ruckus ricochets revenant reign.
ratified rattlebrained rules roil reductionism.
rumbustious rapscallions rollick; render ruinous ramifications.
rusty razor razing revenge rents reprisal.
rabid rectal rictus rotten rebrands re-calibrate.
rambunctious revolutionaries rejoice.
ruffians ride roughshod routing reigning royalty.
reiterate revetting robust recidivist rationality.
ride Rolls Royce relentlessly rendering rock ribbing.
riffraff raconteur raise reactionary response.
revisit rancorous restrictive redlined realigned rightward rivets.
robocop ridiculously rubber-stamped reorganization.
recalcitrant reactors release rapture.
rash Russian roulette reconnaissance raconteurs rack rubles.
red room reflects republican RNA.
rap risible rheumy ratiocinated rug-rats revoke righteous refulgent repertory.
rapier robed robbers ransack reliquary resounding retaliation.
retaliatory redcoat regnum reformation remembered.
Rudy robotically recoiling rapprochement
raison d'être rosily revered rifled relics raffled.
rookie raves ripe rackful rubenesque reliably ranked.
refulgent rotundity requisite requirement re: reappointment.
road-tested, roadworthy redeem reapportion routed role.
reprehensible reassignment rapidly recognizes response.
rife rampage removes respectability - respect.
responsible roused restitution refuted.
risky resultant reconnoitering runaway railroad reverberates rivalry.
reflexive ramrod reaction reconfirms redoubling ridding revitalization.
reconfiguration realpolitik reinstates repudiation
rebooting Roosevelt regime reconsidered.
requisition requires resilient reseeding republic.
regrettable riley roars remorseless ribbing.
rare recount restoring recondite renown reprobate Rapunzel.
Republican representatives rejoice reclaiming reins
registering retarded romantic remains
re: Rastafarian revered reliquary rests!
Categories:
rebooting, allusion, analogy, confusion, crazy,
Form:
Alliteration
Digital age, digital technology, digital people
Digital adds to life
Digital subtracts from life
But why?
Because:
People make things
People change things
People use things
People abuse things
So:
Digital education for everyone
Then:
Digital technology for everyone
Young and old, rich and poor, here and there
Reboot society
Reboot life
Reboot digital!
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Written 2 February 2021
This is a poetical version of
Rebooting ethics education in the digital age
https://doi.org/10.20935/AL146
It demonstrates Poetical potentials: the value of poems in social impact education which can be found at
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3381025
Both articles are written by Simon Rogerson
Poetry Soup Featured Poem: December 19, 2021
Categories:
rebooting, education, people, technology,
Form:
Free verse
Excuse, may I perhaps suggest that you adjust your settings
Access my local area network by rebooting your memory
Restore it to our history, the mail, the messages we shared
The cache of stored work temporarily filed away remotely
Technically challenged by the format you display
Data of no gateways or connections in sync
Prompts the recalibration of my control panel
To search and review my settings reboot or even restore
Closing all windows and formatting firewalls
erasing the data, the history and their locations
troubleshooting the back pages encrypted
with messages no longer managed or stored
This media of you remains pasted on a clipboard
Components that await configuration and review
Left to their own devices by default in my domain
Downloaded, bookmarked in favourite library files
I delete all prompts and search settings and all tools
Inheriting only drivers generic and with false attributes
I apply these settings, I delete the data sources
Denying permission to any external links of you.
Categories:
rebooting, imagery, metaphor, relationship,
Form:
Light Verse
4/1/17
Flowers blooming
Spaced out or in a tight-knit grouping
All around things looming
In space objects still or moving and zooming
Birds pluming
And other animals grooming
Downloads queueing
Electronics in need of a rebooting
Or powering off, to enable cooling
Below, on and above the roofing
Toxins spewing
And other particulates polluting
Some of which are made for fueling
All weeds were removed by uprooting
Trees and bushes getting a pruning
Especially any areas that are drooping
There's just no excusing
You'd better stop snooping
And assuming
As well as tooting your horn
Or ridiculing the poor
What the hell are you fooling for
When deep down, you know you could be doing more
Ocean life caught by fishing poles, harpooning
Or cage using
Die hard fans rooting
Or booing
Times of booming
And continual losing
Certain insects and people cocooning
Humans continually feuding
Suing
And fuming
As if there is something they want to be proving
Major scale jobs, including
A lot of or very specific tooling
Drugs and alcohol others may be using
And possibly abusing
In the right conditions, water pooling
Near and far from any rocks protruding
Live a life of your choosing
Continue pursuing
Knowledge, and ways of improving
With or without musing
By: Dalton Ogletree
Categories:
rebooting, poetry, rap, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
Morning has broken - Warning system rebooting - Yawning terminated
Categories:
rebooting, computer, journey, technology,
Form:
Monoku
Late one night
I decided to write...
While musing in silence
My computer was in defiance
As I scooted to the keys
My thoughts began to be un-eased
As the program stood still
I kept rebooting until~
I realized what was happening
That ole boy needed new programming
He kept doing the rebooting boogie
‘Til every virus was gleaned, and tossed away-- Happily
There’ll be no more of that boogying today
Categories:
rebooting, art, caregiving, computer-internet, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Yes, you shut me down.
But I'm rebooting.
I start again, for this is my destiny to begin again.
I will do better than ever, to make one laugh, cry and celebrate.
Yes, I will come alive, with Hope, Joy and well being.
You will love me even more.
So, check on me each week for something new.
Maybe even exciting. For I m rebooting.
Categories:
rebooting, blessing, care, courage, desire,
Form:
Blank verse
Rising thunderstorm
Sudden rain slamming my roof
Passing overhead.
Sharp lightning flashes
Interrupt work on the screen
Computer goes blank.
Distant thunderclap
Computer is rebooting
Nothing I wrote lost.
Categories:
rebooting, computer, storm,
Form:
Haiku
The Planet appeared behind the upholstery.
Layers of ambiguous crises lie behind.
Attractive slurs were mixed in with flowing clarity.
A new dawn has been anticipated by humankind.
The range of options given to humanity is critical.
To allow for the transformation of this dread.
Assert, through truth analysis, that it's factual.
To prosper, we must live in tune with the Land.
Complex and nestled in a devilish heart,
stifling horror and provoking calamity anger,
There is a strong urge to exhibit nature in paint.
People who are aware of it are struck with terror.
Associated with those who had dubious thoughts.
To improve the global economic state.
We are on a conflicting path with such structural aughts
At the moment, fear preponderates on the planet.
Several problems and clashes across frameworks.
Short pressure and vast ambiguity are combined.
Across the recovery, they are all aiming to follow lurks
During the building of Great Reset, a lot of things have occurred.
An acquisition to defend humanity needs to be issued.
Examine the love and longing hidden under the sorrow.
The rise of each day enchants the mind.
The skylines will impel to glow after years of murky shadow.
Written: May 08, 2021
Global Reset 21 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Joe Maverick
Categories:
rebooting, allusion, anger, earth, emotions,
Form:
Rhyme
GLITCHES
Glitches
DO you double click your mouse to get one click?
DO you ever have a page just disappear?
(This rally happened unto me the thing goes to the right clean out of site)
Sometimes the lag buttons the green squares just go real slow
Sometimes eye lose a letter an emale it is lost in the ethernet
Sometimes the page freezes up and eye must then restart the computer
This is known as restarting the computer.
Rebooting is making boots again.
Wireless is being tapped this wireless is being tapped.
Sometimes the evil creature from that other star system trys to take over my typo
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Everyone already knoes about the error messages the 404 and 401.
My heat vision sometimes melts the keyboard and the screen.
When eye use my x-ray vision on my foot eye can see the broken bones in it.
Sometimes when eye pee a girl looks at her email.
Some say the internet police are still looking for *********** users OH NO
The price today of eggs in CHINA is Japan, Hong Kong, Canada and Mexico
together account for over 60 percent of total U.S. egg and product exports. U.S.
exports to North America and Japan have steadily increased due to increased
demand for egg products. Conversely, exports to Hong Kong have suffered with
increased competition from China, and U.S. exports to the Middle East have
declined in the absence of the EEP. The United States, however, has been
successful in expanding markets in the Caribbean and among the countries of
the Former Soviet Union (FSU). Exports to the FSU have risen from below
$125,000 in 1992 to nearly $2 million during 1996.
Categories:
rebooting, introspection, on work and
Form:
Free verse
Lost in the noise,
Chasing your shadow,
Like I have no choice.
I'm scared of the echoes
I’m done with the heartache,
Fed up with the pain.
No more hamster-wheeling again.
I’m clearing my story, wiping the slate,
Gone are the nightmares, lifting off weight.
I’m rebooting my life, erasing your name,
I’m burning the bridges, putting out the flame.
You don’t get to haunt me, you don’t get to stay,
I’m deleting your memory, and walking away.
I’m starting fresh, taking back control,
I’m wiping the slate clean, reclaiming my soul.
I’m rebooting my life, starting today,
I’m erasing you in every way.
You were the virus, infecting my mind,
A glitch in my system, I couldn’t unwind.
But I’m fixing the code, I’m rewriting the rules,
No more being played for a fool.
I’m deleting the data, I’m shutting you down,
You’re just a mistake that I’ll never let drown.
I don’t need your ghost, I don’t need your past,
I’m resetting the clock, I’m moving so fast.
You’re just a chapter, now closing the door,
I won’t look back, I won’t take anymore.
I’m rebooting my life,
And you’re out of the frame.
I’m erasing your name...
And I’m never the same.
Categories:
rebooting, abuse, addiction, encouraging, leaving,
Form:
Rhyme
14 years confused on a pitch without the goals
never knowing how I fell through so many holes
as each I fell through another would unfold
the brain just couldn't process storing in the vault
to later analyse and process the result
but storage overflowed and the circuit cut short
a breakdown stopped their process postponing the report
the brain was overwhelmed from continuous assault
it's called a mental breakdown retreat from the revolt
rebooting only vital zones and limiting your thoughts
thanks to overwhelming stress continuous and cold
flight or fight for too long sees hormones flood the skull
changing how the mind works and the person on the whole
misdiagnosed depression through symptoms it unrolls
but rain floods are not a sea these hormones will dissolve
psychiatric injury doesn't stay until you're old
it's not a mental illness that doctor can't solve
injuries repair themselves, a bruise a scar a hole
people caused your pain, don't let them be involved
Categories:
rebooting, education, mental illness, truth,
Form:
Rhyme