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Freedom of Restriction

Deflected, crushed by the social retardation, 
Not loved, ‘cos he’s altogether unaccepting, 
Active learning the robot’s mouth action, 
So he can't contextualise, there’s no blessing.

Neither me nor him meet and we sweep by, 
There’s no connection from his ANDs and ORs,  
Only citadels to weather the reactive cry, 
When my nouns are pocketed by many cursors. 

Where’s the memory bank and why the chat? 
The bus is long gone and I'm open, vulnerable, 
There’s no room for social construction’s mat,  
To yield identity’s dynamic, recursive turntable. 

Yes, microchips and logic gates shouldn't enable, 
Machine learning at the cost of root foundations; 
Your group, community, your niche and fable, 
Ignite the necessary conversation of care situations. 

Ok, so can we build a robot? A care robot? 
Indeed care assistance is definitely reducible, 
To only a small number of abstractions, clot, 
‘Cos love does not evade the comprehensible. 

Doors class as access, also pavements, steps, 
Only three types of garments, two of people, 
Friend or foe, but a cloud for certain parapets, 
And who’s boss is said before, it's programmable.
Form: Quatrain


Premium Member Nothing Is New

“Nothing is new
under the sun!” Sorry,
can’t buy that! Man ill fated then, to
dog-paddle eternally in pools of mediocrity -- never
destined to attain higher pinnacles of physical, 
spiritual development? – cursed to always relive the
same themes, patterns; to struggle with repetitive
developmental flaws, manifesting as both inner and outer
soul corruption...rejecting unique
new arrangements, by refusing to alter
programmable psychic disks? – not 
capable of exploring the possibility of an evolving 
trans-formative mind, with an equally capable feeling heart…

Were I to accept any of this, I would never
write another word of poetry….

Premium Member Face To Face

Face To Face


Face to face they sit...
brain to brain;
two-eyed flesh machine,
one-eyed blue
laptop screen,
interacting... 
systems inputting, 
outputting, 
precious data.
Face to face they sit,
a complex team
driven to perform
with error-free 
precision in a 
controlled mini-world
ruled by the god 
of technology.
Face to face they sit...
worlds apart,
stark and cold 
plastic eye flashing 
programmed data;
warm and sensitive 
flesh eyes flashing 
non-programmable 
blue twinkles.


Sandra M. Haight

~5th Place~
Contest: Anacreontic Verse 2
Sponsor: Edward Ebbs
Judged: 01/18/2016
Form: Lyric

Premium Member As The World Burns

(“The Cave of Unknowing”, 2012, original oil)

As The World Burns

As the world turns
The morning soap operas play out
In print and film, song and dance
Showing on every screen 
A world ablaze with fear
Disease, famine, war and rumors of war
Programming the programmable 

While I sit in my room a cocoon 
Surrounded by dogs
All sprawled out on chair and sofa and floor
Asleep at ease and peace
Filling the house 
With their own therapeutic vibe 
Beyond worry at least as long as they dream

While I watch and wait
Soothed by their dogged oblivion
As the world outside turns and burns
And I grow just a little more uncomfortable
Filling a delightful cocoon that I know
Must eventually open
Into a great unknown.

(12/11/24)
Form: Narrative

Crash Override


Anaphylactic identity, constricting logic on the 
course towards infinity. Denial is drawn like a tarot 
reading, citing that it is all in your head. Hidden 
mysteries written in code - the key etched in our 
divinity. Searching for a God who shoulders all the 
blame while cartographing our lessons with fate 
Absolute power behind the circuitry, plugged into 
the all-seeing interface led by evasive clues to 
keep the system powered up and running smooth

Damage created by those on bended knees, 
pointing divisive fingers against our natural instincts
outside of the true spectrum. Wired up and held in 
the place of duty - holding on to the inverse of 
programmable time, like cogs in a wheel turning, 
without enough consciousness left in holding
to seek for records with even a misguided way out
Secret vaults protected by monsters in captivity

Borders and walls surrounded by tales of 
adventurous souls, looking upwards and onwards, 
over the ocean, and rocketing into the sky. All so 
the slave remains blind, swept up in fantasy of 
daring escapes - illusions hold them down to work 
harder, building an empire that has been falsified 
underhand - stolen in the name of dignity. Written 
on the tombs of despair to keep us longing for 
something else outside of the current of what is

Then came the virus that attacked the hallucinating 
code of deception. The binding network struck a 
nerve, activating the cleaners to destroy the peace 
that held like soldered resistors. The savior agents 
dropped from their blinded curses, and took up 
their swords like lightning rods. Connected by their 
inner potentials, they set out to remind every neighbor 
near that the codex has always been within


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