Digital Diet
...There’s digital this
And digital that
But most is too much
For me to grab at
I thank the Almighty
That as far as I know
No one can grow
Digital coffee.
But this thought
Of digital drink
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Categories:
gigabyte, computer, food,
Form: Rhyme
Even a Robot Craves a Little More Conversation
...Gerry Gigabyte, a robotic delight,
sat on a lab roof in morning’s light,
calculating earth’s current position;
amid the stars found a new addition.
His neuro-radar swiftly did detect...
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Categories:
gigabyte, children, computer, fantasy, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Did You Say
...because it burns you
you don't like the sun
and the shadow doesn't buy a story,
It knows its edges and the milky ways,
attached to a leaf tail
chlorophyll counts its rays,
sucks energy from i...
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Categories:
gigabyte, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Stock Market Drivel
...Torrid sunshine blisters reign on pavement,
that colour coded coffee stain slipway,
bearer of insole-laden footwear,
open source channel for glib hot air calculus from starchy social climber, sto...
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Categories:
gigabyte, art, character, courage, creation,
Form: Prose Poetry
Whyfi
...Random (dis)information’s endless scream,
Fibs and tidbits attacking by the gigabyte,
People exhibiting what for lunch they’ll bite,
In a chattersphere adoring the latest meme.
Too long have I ...
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Categories:
gigabyte, internet, nonsense, peace, people,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
No One Is Free
...Is the world moving a little too fast?
We ain’t exactly following naturally along
Engiven of unnatural timelines to past
Have we what it takes to feel belong?
Technology is becoming easier they...
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Categories:
gigabyte, life,
Form: Rhyme
-destructive Creation-
...I love to sing, that's what I was made for, wasn't it?
To bring everyone around joy through a feeble voice.
But truthfully, I can't stand singing, this voice is a curse,
For that's all you will be...
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Categories:
gigabyte, absence, abuse, age, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Why
...Why am I writing this sonnet for class?
On a beautiful day, like today is,
But I must, so I’ll make it very crass
This is, sadly enough, like a pop quiz.
Usually I’d be watching some Netflix,...
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Categories:
gigabyte, homework, word play, writing,
Form: Sonnet
Twas the Night Before Christmas 2054
...Twas the night before Christmas in 2054
The only sound being robotic mice on the floor
Our digital wish-lists were hung with ultra-precision
Above the virtual fireplace in pre-supposition
Of the ...
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Categories:
gigabyte, celebration, children, christmas, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Modern Love
...You work up the gigabyte of courage it takes
one to cross the gigabit gulf that separates us
on this vast and coldly digital sea of loneliness
I ponder a terabyte's worth of polite words of
of...
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Categories:
gigabyte, internet, relationship,
Form: Verse
Vets Know
...Vets Know
by Odin Roark
Deployment
(Via Refrigerator Magnets)
Sweetheart
Should have told you
I’m sorry
I’ve buttered
the last piece
the heel
you never eat
Can you forgive m...
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Categories:
gigabyte, life, , memorial,
Form: Free verse
Basketball Heads
...Made quite an impression, it seems
On the chair I've been glued to so long
The indentation is an exact replica
Of my rear, hmmm, sounds like a song
Me bum and me chair are going steady
Have ...
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Categories:
gigabyte, future, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
Gigabytes of Microchips
...Gigabytes of Microchips
The taste of technology
Now the flavor of need
The digital dellicasies
Fuel hungering greed
The binary breakfasts
And microchip meals
Login to your lunch
As a little...
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Categories:
gigabyte, science
Form: Rhyme