Short Networks Poems

Bragging and boasting
is all people do.
Making it hard
for people
to break through. 
If only, if only 
compliments would be given.
Allowing the population
to be driven. 
Suicide rates
wouldn't rise. 
Happiness
would be
gleaming in
many eyes....

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dwindled rupee nearing untenability
is economy bubble buster
the deadly shift to disorder era
chinese hacked networks, websites
is technology bubble buster
the deadly shift to disorder era
corona times is
india bubble buster
the deadly shift to disorder era...

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move/walk/run/crawl
steps/feet/miles/AUs

little ocean surrounded by trees
warm winds caress the surface

sit\stand\listen\write
seconds\minutes\hours\years

green networks seek peace
inspiring scenes reflate the spirit
...

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A photo captures a moment
                   then imperceptibly fades
 
A painting makes a deep impression
                   that dims in memory's mists

A poem engages her reader
                   altering perceptions
                           creating new networks...

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Powerful Weapons Systems
Marvels of Technology
Vast Communication Networks
Fabulously Wealthy Financiers
The Latest in Robotic Technology
The Greatest Minds of our Times   
             All Aligned
               against
   an itsy-bitsy teenie-weenie
                 bug...

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Satellite sex one for all
Cosmic course complicity
Numb political powers to be
Renumerate residual responses
Lifeline planetary promises
Retrograde reality rotundities,
National networks remorse.
They lead us to nowheresville
through silly sabotage sequentials.
And the Beat goes on, on and on....

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What is a chip 
an implant to the brain 
created through networks 
or Crazy images 

Soon will everything 
Be sold on line 
Does that include souls 
A deep insight 
To a story 
about the beast 

Upon his mark 
Is this our children 
Sucked away 
by networks 
Our legacy 
The beginning 
of their future...

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Now social networks
Before tea-room social chat –
IT changes us

Single views are flawed
Life is grey not black and white-
Harmony spawns hope

Computer jargon
Academic rhetoric – 
Actions not words count


Appeared in ACM SIGCAS Computers & Society, June 2015, Vol. 45 No. 2, p4.

Poetry Soup Featured Poem: April 12, 2021...

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Cobweb
Patiently, intricately done 
A trap for the unwary spun
With fine gossamer threads
In patterned fashion spread
By the use of fine technique
Across networks of intrigue
Causing chaos in the mind:
Fault of nature or mankind?

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Word Vision Poetry iv Contest
Hosted by Vermillion Scythe 
© 21st November 2018...

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Let's stand out here,
Just the two of us

Leave the world inside the four walls

Let's make love out there
Just the two of us

Pretend all the hustle of life does not exist

We could do with some time alone
Just the two of us

No networks, no phones, no facebook, 
Just the two of us

you and I wrapped up
in all that is us

Let’s start today...

©134329012013...

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If you are host of a radio program each day,
the best advice is to be careful of what you say.
Say the wrong thing, and millions of people are annoyed.
Loss of sponsorship can leave anyone unemployed.
There are many persons sensitive to prejudice.
Flagrant racist remarks will render you no justice.
Networks pull the plug on you, and you are out the door.
Utterance of the wrong words, and you are heard no more....

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Doctor Phil
By Franklin Price
2/2/2019

Punxutawney Phil came from the hill
And looked down on the ground
He looked in all directions
Not a shadow there was found

Has an honorary doctorate
Shadow spotting his degree
Because there was not one today
An early Spring for you and me

All the networks covered him
They think he's in the know
If Spring arrives in six weeks
Doctor Phil will get a show...

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Making food for your family early in the morning puts
You in a very happy mood and makes you proud
{But only when you don't do it often}having fun playing 
In the sun all day makes you come closer and not 
Stray from the happy days you want to have every day
Like in May with popsicles or inside with targeting 
Missiles, games and social networks make you stray from reality
Crazay, but all that maters is that you have a happy day...

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The fabric of transactions
We know today
Creates tremendous volume
As capital flows everywhere
You cannot argue
Wealth and efficiency

There is a gap
Across the networks
The real meaning is ascribed
The reason for being alive

Coded by indigenous economies
The marvel of giving gifts
And no possession of property

Bedrock socieities
Retain their transparency
Built of reciprocity 

In the land
Of money and honey
What is overlooked
The bonding
Of Love and Economy...

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When you meet some professors 
of philosophy, theology 
and psychology 
Who are love failures 
You can ask why?
So why? 

When you meet some top leaders 
Who lost governing networks 
Because of love pressures 
You can ask why ? 
So why? 

Loving,  
Being loved,
Being rejected, 
Falling in love, 
Love failure, 
Are  titles on some book covers 
In some world libraries 
Written by some love  victims. 
Read them for more answers 

August 02/ 2023...

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The loud threats on the doors inscribed 
Were from a Union just proscribed
For struggles it bloodshed prescribed,
And for them four Networks subscribed.

A group the men on top proscribed
But still with men she neatly bribed
And to them The Cheating described...

A clique the falsest strength ascribed,
Though parading some fierce scribes,
A lot profiting from mere vibes...

Her threats on doors in each walking street 
Merely breathing the Vainly Sweet...

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The Loudest road in America
runs through a rolled out blueprint
of my thoughts today.

Eighteen wheelers hrough
neuron networks 
blasting peripheral warning signals 
on a numbed roadside flesh.

It is hard to hammer words together
amid the unruly traffic of this mind map
I am forced to navigate.

Yet poems come
even in the middle of war and chaos;
they emerge like rest stops or off ramps
on those long and dangerous highways
that thunder on to nowhere....

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I do not need a twitter
or any of your tweets.

Your fancy social networks
are souly for the geeks.

Fore you see,
I have a bird's nest on my head
and I go a tweeting every single day.

When I walk, the birds are tweeting.
When I sleep, the birds are tweeting.
They are pecking at my face.

It's all worth it in the end;
to be the man with bird nests on his head,
being told to go away.

...But I wouldn't have it any other way
because without me, they'd be dead....

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Saying to them, I know that you wish to sell unto myself 
Your chrysalis cures modern day vaccines maypole moments 
Amid white diamonds and mascara, visions ? But, I really hate sin so
Pawn it to one another is what I thought in recycled to speak yet 
Let the weeds be and write it in a bill to push unto these networks ? Tossing 
My cigarette upon the ground and downing a beer as I smiled then added 
Thanks for the promotion; while I pulled up my sleeve and mainlined their malaria....

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As if EarthTribe global health
and climate safety
liberally and conservationally 
mattered:

Pedagogical Core Needs
Manifest integrity's neuro-sensory systemic
sacred trust potential, 

In Living Soil Systems
In Healthy Water Networks
In Optimizing Food/Fuel CoOperative Win/Win Global/Local Economies
WithIn Fresh Clean Liberating Air/Energy
For Conservational Comfortable BodyMind Shelter 
     MetaPhysically Surviving
     And Safe 
     for EarthTribe Healthy Thriving....

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Saying to them, I know that you wish to sell unto myself 
Your chrysalis cures modern day vaccines maypole moments 
Amid white diamonds and mascara, visions ? But, I really hate sin so
Pawn it to one another is what I thought in recycled to speak yet 
Let the weeds be and write it in a bill to push unto these networks ? Tossing 
My cigarette upon the ground and downing a beer as I smiled then added 
Thanks for the promotion; while I pulled up my sleeve and mainlined their malaria....

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Saying to them, I know that you wish to sell unto myself 
Your chrysalis cures modern day vaccines maypole moments 
Amid white diamonds and mascara, visions ? But, I really hate sin so
Pawn it to one another is what I thought in recycled to speak yet 
Let the weeds be and write it in a bill to push unto these networks ? Tossing 
My cigarette upon the ground left downing a beer as I smiled then added.... 
Thanks for the promotion; while I pulled up my sleeve and mainlined their 
malaria....

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