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Creation Saturday: Cybernetic Poetry and Lost Pathways

Saturday, April 15, 2017

On this day in 1947,
Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color barrier.

The "Blogging Circle of Friends "  prompt for DAY 1612
Creation Saturday: Use this six words in a poem or story: expressive, auction, cybernetic, genetic, better, false.

Cybernetic Poetry

Can the Borg write poetry?
Cybernetic verses
commemorating
their genetic heritage.

Can Data create metaphors?
Stanza and line
celebrating his desire
to be human.

Can a computer
create emotionally expressive
odes
without the assistance
of a human poet?

Is poetry
created by Artificial Intelligence
better or worse
then poetry created
by a human beings
Natural Intelligence?

Would a poetry chapbook
written by a robot
receive a higher
auction bid
the one composed
by a human?

Is it true or false
that a positronic brain
can create passionate poetry?

The "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise"  prompt for DAY 1128
Lost Pathways--- if you found yourself on a road in the middle of nowhere with a storm approaching, how would you make your escape? What does the storm represent to you? What meaning does the road itself hold?

Lost Pathways

At midnight
with an approaching storm
all pathways are lost
if you have no sense of direction
and panic!

The secret of survival
is "Do Not Panic!"

Life is full of unexpected tests,
storm appearing out of
nowhere,
if panic occurs
you are lost
without a direction
or a solution.

In times of storms
and trouble
pray,
but "DO NOT PANIC!"

Panic interferes
with both
faith and intuition;
it paralyzes
mind, body and soul.