Best Turing Poems

Alan Mathison Turing
This ‘enigmatic’ man was so alluring
Chemically castrated for being gay
His alternative was a lifelong prison stay


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They never understood him,
But in him burned a spark.
Peculiar, a genius
A man who'd leave his mark.

And leave his mark he did,
His mind an unknown road.
What he saw they couldn't,
He broke the nazi code.

No plaudits though for him,
Invisible was he.
His role, it was top secret
But led...

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He proved, with a skill irrefutable,
Some functions to be uncomputable.
   His run sadly halted
   When magistrates faulted
His code-breaking love as unsuitable.

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(Alan Turing was a brilliant pioneer in the development of computer science. Among other achievements, he is remembered for proving that...

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Dear Poet Soup..
A request, dare I ask,
Could you withdraw
Mysterious mask?

As if in Oz 
I feel I am
But hope your wizardry
No sham

For I request 
A feature fair
To pin a poem
In the air..

High up above
As if balloon..
(your coding skills
to make us swoon)

My favourite write
The 'child' of mine
Top...

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