The Programmed Mind
("The Mothership", 2024, original encaustic photo collage)
The Programmed Mind
Riding our brain waves
What we do and say and think
Finds a lasting home
At whatever level
Those vibrations take us.
Do we remember our dreams
What we did, said and thought
As the relaxed state of REM sleep
Molds us, solidifying or disrupting,
Our daytime persona?
Do we consciously seek out
Our own reprogramming
In deep prayer
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Categories:
programmed, health, introspection, psychological, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Programmed Demeanor
Our environment has programmed us not to think things out. The information onslaught has rampaged into our lives, hurrying us to the next task with no time to consider what it is what we are actually accomplishing.
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Categories:
programmed, science,
Form: Prose
Programmed Demeanor
Our environment has programmed us not to think things out, the information onslaught has rampaged into our lives, hurrying us to the next task with no time to consider what it is what we are actually accomplishing.
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Categories:
programmed, introspection, perspective, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Carpe Diem
My Robot Benny
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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Categories:
programmed, space,
Form: Rhyme
To Delete the Programmed Brain
Awaking I find with a click of the eyes,
Little rectangles all colors floating,
Floating and waiting suspended in my brain, so I
“Choose morning duties” – there’s an app for that,
A rectangle lights up, “Feed the cat.”
“Put on your shoes,” a link I click,
“Go walking,” my eyes blink “, and I get my coat;
“Arrow down
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Categories:
programmed, humorous, satire,
Form: Free verse
Programmed Girl
"Smile and laugh when necessary,"
Was what the program said,
"Innocent bliss must be apparent,
But add strictness if needed."
And so around the class that she
Was put to study in,
She was a bouncing ball of fun
With an iron core within.
"Be polite, never talk back,"
The code this time meant,
"Be prudent, and be practical,
Be modest and yet intelligent."
So when at
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Categories:
programmed, identity, image, self,
Form: Ballad
Twice Programmed
I was born here.
You were born there.
I was raised here.
You where raised there.
I was educated here.
You were educated there.
I have my beliefs.
You have your beliefs.
We do not agree.
We may go to war.
If I were born there.
If you were born here.
Things would be the same.
We are twice programmed,
genetically at conception and socially by the culture
we are
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Categories:
programmed, art,
Form: Prose Poetry
We Are Programmed
dense clouds cuddle
third dimensional
incarnations
free of birth and death
immortal we exist
evolved beings
colored bugs
expansion of self concept
harvesting white smoke
sky opening in silent
symphony
we are programmed
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Categories:
programmed, allusion,
Form: I do not know?
Programmed Youth
Rolling along like a stumbling tumbleweed,
Programmed youth respond like robots.
Social norms are tightening tourniquets,
Restricting the flux of creative flow.
Wiggle room is considered a luxury.
Churches corral and prod like cattle.
Spoon-fed youth shackled to fantasy
Are taught to rebuke science as fraud.
Rebellion begins with autonomous thought.
Logic tramples faith based dictation.
Live like Jesus, but know that the Bible
Was written
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Categories:
programmed, social,
Form: Free verse