Bytes Poems - Poems about Bytes

You move your body but you can’t change your mind To many broken bits It’s your choice to waste your time You wish and you want to finally be fine Penny for thought thinking another glass of wine You hide behind screens Blinded by your bliss Nothing could be better Than your imagined kiss A click and a flicker Anticipation cloud nine It’s just a bit of...

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life drain that needs a new installment over flow, the curvaceous wash of social media privacy perishable, burden of risk tech gadgetry, finger punched detachment tangle of cyber speak, sheared discourse movement pitched in Tik Tok rhythm always another world to screen into change that covers me like mud Poem revised: June 17, 2021...

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Photo of old school pops up in Facebook newsfeed the kind I can feel yellow sky, edged brown as golden sugar cookie when you know it's done the bright almond sun on chocolate branches, drizzled melting in middle with French vanilla snowdrifts, scoopable snowballs and white mountain tufts such sweet aftertaste although dropped before finished partially eaten it feels warm, and cold I taste happiness, sadness because now... it's gone 1/31/2021...

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My youngest son is 53 years old A chip off the old block as they say I take full responsibility for this young fellow Scott is his name, silliness is his game Proud as punch of that boy 'Why grow up' has always been my motto He has certainly accepted it as his as well Like two peas in a pod we...

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MY ROBOT BENNY I have a robot at home, his name is Benny, Who is also, extremely office friendly. He wakes me up every morning, As a new day is dawning, And taps my hand, ever so gently. I wanted him dressed in a vibrant colour, So he was delivered to me in red suited armour, With extremities of a shiny silvery pallor! He...

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I sit here cursing at Herman Hollerith, and his foolish punch card machine, trying to make base-2 make sense in a base-10 world. Now I can add and subtract as well as any man, But peeking where I poked is really a hard call, much harder than it looks! Though I've received compliments for my two's-complement notation. Some people...

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Zero One One Zero One Zero Zero One One One Zero Zero One One Zero One Zero Zero Zero Zero One One Zero Fun My husband despised computer class in the 70’s. It was all digits and blinks and beeps, and the computer was bigger than the room it was housed in By the 80’s he was speaking computer-ease that...

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Wordplay In a way Can portray A fond say Bytes grow In swift flow A new show That I know Verse rhymes In good time Stillness mimes Charm works chime Sure surge Words now urge A sad dirge Feel bold verge Each hurl A ripple Thought now curls Poise unfurls Meek flight In dark night Words put right Stray insight You see Verse poetry Heart sets free Just to be Leon Enriquez 18 July 2017 Singapore...

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Light a candle Go on a vigil Put a handle On Twitter if you will Say your piece Grab sound-bytes Find release In media fights Then off to a cocktail To talk of your deed Bemoan of happenings As you drink up your mead And when some time passes Look up a cause Think of starving masses As you pour on the sauce Such and such needs justice Our liberty’s at stake Set...

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I love you I love you not Haha I love you more...

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My youngest son is forty-six years old A chip off the old block as they say I take full responsibility for this young fellow Scott is his name, silliness is his game Proud as punch of that boy 'Why grow up' has always been my motto He has certainly accepted it as his as well Like two peas in a pod we...

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