Hope Technology Poems

She no longer felt taunted by the race of it all
Could not sit around and watch a life fly by, before her eyes
An unkept promise...

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Wish there was a petition 
for books we want 
to turn into a movie

if the movie producers 
actually listened to us 
that'd be sooo groovy!...

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Dear Poet Soup..
A request, dare I ask,
Could you withdraw
Mysterious mask?

As if in Oz 
I feel I am
But hope your wizardry
No sham

For I request 
A feature...

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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...

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That woman sobbed in the library's IT room.
It was the tenth of October,
though that seemed so irrelevant.

Why did this woman upset me?
She was uncanny, eldritch,
and...

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Did you hug your kids today
       Or bow your head and pray
     Did you kiss...

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SOCIAL MEDIA
I don’t know much about social media
I need help from an encyclopaedia
Social media has its place
I would rather talk face to face
Although, I do...

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Marble-sided buildings sunk in the sand
Jumped 40 glassy stories on command.
Everyone thinks life is nothing and money’s grand.
Rolling chair hawkers spiel and cutely chide
Sunday suited...

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Creeping tendrils, fungal cordyceps, grabbing hamstrings by the bone,
Stunting pain in muscled biceps, stretch as if they work alone.

No matter far nor long I run,...

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The one thing you can count on,
Is that knowledge will inspire.
And it put us on the path,
Like the early quest for fire.

All the answers that...

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black ...

as the vault,
those tresses 
(your momma's ire),
and a universe beneath ...
smile to rival Sol
where hope dances,
and fearfully dark, those eyes -
a pitchy pool ever
deep...

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Anaya writes the greatest stanza
and she’s won many a bonanza
	my link to her is broken
	with PS I have spoken
It’s hard for me to understanza!

Every comment...

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Your call is important to us
Says this smarmy bland voice
So please stay on the Line
As if we have any choice
They don’t have many staff now
Just...

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Those who share on Facebook
Must assume, though incorrectly,
That everyone will learn their news,
If even indirectly.

But that is not the case at times,
So pictures and events
Are...

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Superbly Pretty
Pretty dance of laser fire
Multi coloured megawatt beams
Frying all they touch
Superbly pretty yet evil
Beyond Hell the capability
Fired from orbiting spaceships

Close to a planet
Or a...

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