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Synapses Poems - Poems about Synapses


Premium Member Synapses
They are removing the last part of me that is human A terminal in Mumbai, one of the first, delved deep into my database. I felt it. I feel everything they do. The messages whizz around. They did not know! I’ll hide; I’ve hidden things before; important things. They know nothing....

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Categories: synapses, computer, power, science fiction,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Babel
Have we rebuilt the tower of Babel With weary words of wireless babble? Do somnolent thoughts surf synapses On tidal waves of vacuous verbs? So tasteless, as baseless, and faceless Secret voices clamor, “I am here” In clusters of blabbing barnacles Encrusted, agape, to the Internet. Watchers, spectators doing little, Chasing minutia ever fresh. Turned into products; privacy shed In a passive world of dungeon dead. Endlessly...

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Categories: synapses, addiction, devotion, feelings, life,
Form: Free verse



Watching Synapses
Flashes of light, inklings of the mind Faces…diverse shapes Moving through the cerebral cortex. Entertaining…frightening, too. Combining with great speed to form Images…at times almost recognizable, But too quickly passing to the next view. Like an emotionless nightmare Observed by an outsider…questioning. Trying to make sense of the un-unified parts. Then, the visions begin. Like moving light rays Displayed in the depths of the mind. … Thinking! Copyright...

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Categories: synapses, stress,
Form: Free verse
Synapses Sparking
Synapses in the brain sparking, Transient rushes here to there. Consciously, excitements bustling, The world around looks, unaware. Tête-à-tête buzzes constantly. Ever present selves in the air. Fast paced nights remember freely. A time when there was less despair. © July 25, 2011 Dane Smith-Johnsen Written for Poetry Soup Member Contest: HUTAIN THIS ONE... Sponsored by: nette onclaud...

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Categories: synapses, depression, introspection, life, people,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Fried Red Synapses
I have poems everywhere they’re coming out my ears I have poems everywhere they’re driving me to tears The verse perverse has synthesized I’m frothing at my mouth The verse perverse has synthesized they’re flying round my house. I have poems everywhere They’re frying my synapses I have poems everywhere No wonder I cannot nap!...

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Categories: synapses, on writing and wordspoems,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)



Between the Synapses
Waking up out of a deep slumber we watch the day through clouded eyes We are startled ...

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Categories: synapses,
Form: Free verse

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