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Three Poems

June 22, 2013 by Chiara Ricciardone 2 Comments

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Artificial Love

Slender petals
plucked one by one
is how humans
process 0101:
is there Love
there is none
is there Love
there is 0001.
The one who plucks
inputs the function
Worry: does he
love me or
the program learned,
compatible
with his machine.
The daisy, depetaled,
outputs Desire (beta):
love my tangled circuitry.

 

Feathered Heart
for little MLS

Feathers did not evolve for flight
as every chicken knows, flight
came to be from feathers– the
archaeologists have clearly shown. And
the chicken, they did conclude at last,
first burst from the egg; much later
she found and crossed her road.
So test, sweet one, the hollow quill.
Cup gently a pregnant shell.
Though feathers did not evolve for flight
still a lightened heart grows wings.

 

Dump Stew

In creating, look askew
what you’re making isn’t you
though that of course, you also do;
the life leftover is Art’s dump stew.

 

Filed Under: Poetry, ULE

Comments

  1. Watt Childress says

    June 26, 2013 at 11:36 am

    Thank you for these contributions, Chiara, just what the doctor ordered. Welcome to the Edge!

    Reply
  2. Vera Haddan says

    June 27, 2013 at 9:56 pm

    “Poetry can be a good antidote for abstraction.” That’s a cool thing to write! Thanks for your poems too … I like ’em!

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