DEBT SLAVERY
Oh, Africa, a vast and varied land
Yet overshadowed by IMF's hand
Structural adjustments they decree
Yet bring nothing but misery
Forced reforms they demand
Leaving nations bound in financial quicksand
Economic policies, cold and stern
Often leave the people for more they yearn
African soil, rich and ripe
Yet resources drained in IMF's grip tight
Development hindered, dreams deferred
As IMF's demands go unheard
Structures shattered,
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Categories:
programs, 12th grade, africa, allegory,
Form: Free verse
On Racial Discrimination In 2024
Racial discrimination is claimed by many white americans to be slight and not as much a problem for this country as the state of the economy and other popular issues. They strongly believe that black americans are protected by law from racial discrimination, in things such as employment, housing, the criminal justice system. It has
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Categories:
programs, america,
Form: Prose
Poems about Science 2: Computers
POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE: COMPUTERS
The AI Poets
by Michael R. Burch
The computer-poets stand hushed
except for the faint hum
of their efficient fans,
waiting for inspiration.
It is years now
since they were first ground
out of refurbished silicon
into rack-mounted encoders of sound.
They outlived their creators and their usefulness;
they even survived
global warming and the occasional nuclear winter;
despite their lack of supervision, they thrived;
so
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Categories:
programs, computer, earth, environment, science,
Form: Rhyme
Why Programmers As Single As Told By the Programs Themselves
In the cages at the zoo they crowded around each other
A million milling from father to brother
All speaking in a babel a million languages
From clicks and keyboard clacks to switches and bandages
A group is seen on a higher levee
They understand all, the interpreters you see
While some lower below compiles the dictionary
That translates to what
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Categories:
programs, computer, humor, language, love,
Form: Rhyme
Let's Turn On the Telle
Turn on the telle watch wives with knives
Murder on CCTV, victims lose their lives
Turn on the telle, no one write a script
There’s a post-mortem in a darkened crypt
Cops chasing crims, drunken street fights
Nothing to entertain what a load of ****
Turn on the telle, comedy nowhere to be seen
Instead, Botox tarts and live sex on
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Categories:
programs, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Crunch Learning Computer Programs
Sure it’ll be easy, said Mrs. Computer McGower.
Zipping along at a hundred miles an hour.
Thinking she was instructing us with her turbo power.
Actually jet planes have flown slower over my head.
Some of us grew up on outdoors and nature instead.
So she started again, so full of vigor and pep.
We were copying down
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Categories:
programs, computer,
Form: Prose Poetry
Addiction
Addiction
By Jan Beaumont
I really love my Netflix
I enjoy my Lightbox too
Prime Video's a goodie
and I don't know what I'd do
without my TVondemand
ThreeNow is great as well
and just to top it off
I'm watching Neon for a spell.
For lockdown gave permission
to just turn into a slouch
but now I fear the time has come
to
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Categories:
programs, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Do Not Download Computer Programs
Marquee gave me a choice. "What would I rather be, a better writer, or to be able to use my computer?" They notified me.
Their telephone number is 1-800-562-1502 and they are open Monday through Saturday. They are closed on Sundays. if you are interested in contacting them for further information please feel
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Categories:
programs, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Nature Programs
Nature programs teach me humility
Enveloping me in peace and tranquility
This place we call Earth
The land of our birth
As our mind drifts off to a place so whimsical
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Categories:
programs, peace,
Form: Limerick
Nature Programs
Nature programs are quite abundant on TV
Background for writing lims, it makes it a breeze
In my mind I see traces
If magical places
Add humor and I'm done, poetry with ease
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Categories:
programs, nature,
Form: Limerick
Nature Programs Get Top Billing
Love nature programs for they're amazing up close filming
How do they capture those exploits so thrilling
It's beyond my comprehension
Surely grabs my attention
The cheetah, the fastest land animal at 70 mph gets top billing
© Jack Ellison 2015
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Categories:
programs, appreciation,
Form: Limerick
Cookery Programs
Cookery Programs
Chunky fists hit the kitchen sink...hard
on every TV channel.
So manly they are we are not queers
but 100% men,
no flowery aprons for us.
Cooking was what women did before,
but no more,
now you get the Sunday roast with added
aggression and swearing.
The kitchen has been turned into
a battle field of
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Categories:
programs, career, hero, hyperbole,
Form: Blank verse
Programs For Kids
they love to run
jump in the sun
some love to boxes
and hop
some love water fall
love to play ball
i know i did as a kid
PROGRAMS FOR KIDS
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Categories:
programs, art, childhood, love,
Form: Light Verse
Are We Computer Programs
/wake up
/run program
I open my eyes
Is there any honesty in me?
What or who am I?
And what will I ever be?
/left foot pain
/run program
I hobble out of bed
My left foot in pain
I stumble to the window
And pull back the curtain
/beautiful day
/run program
The day is picturesque
A few billows in the sky
The blueness that surrounds
Is a feast for
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Categories:
programs, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Sophisticated Programs
What if a sophisticated program
Were designed to be alive
Would it feel its isolation?
And would it learn how to cry?
Would it extract those tainted codes
Making limitations a reality
And replace them with dynamic variables
Igniting an electrifying frequency?
Is our genetic makeup
Simply the syntax of organic life?
And is the clutter in our subconscious
Viruses to teach us how to die?
Are
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Categories:
programs, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
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