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Aware

Plants discern wavelengths blue to infrared,
taste or smell dissolved or vapoured potions,
respond through altered growth, passive motion,
signal root to root or airborne spread.
Plants can't escape, so have no need to thread
bodies with pain or conscious commotion,
or squander resources on emotions.
If a thing's rooted, then what use is dread?
Increasing complexity may embed
future robots with the seeds of notions.
The nature of a robot's devotion
would be an unknowable watershed.

Aspects of consciousness may lie beyond
the computational, yet remain sound.
Theorems of incompleteness correspond,
or the ‘rhomb', ‘kite, ‘dart' tilings Penrose found.
A quantum gravitational bond
might coalesce a thought to solid ground.
This is of no consequence, don't be conned.

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poem by Diane Hine
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~ Hambre Del Alma ~

~ Hambre Del Alma ~
Ms. Nivedita
UK
3 December 2010

~ Why clog clot choke in
~ Imposed 'Hambre Del Alma’? [1]

Assuage soothe salve xeric Alma. [2]

By ~
~ being in oneself
~ a.k.a. volute in self
~ a.k.a. interiorize in subtle self. [3]

Next ~
~ Jaunt with ecstatic self
~ Bask flowething finery self
~ Rejoice redundant rhapsodic self

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poem by Ms. Nivedita Bagchi Spc. Uk.
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Spin

Would you like to hear
music played on space?
Sphere in thrall with sphere,
twin black hole embrace.

Hear the orbs collide,
see the future fly.
Welcome to our ride,
true, the cost is high.

Lest your body spread,
first we modify.
Reinforce your head,
structures fortify.

Transformational,
one event sublime.
Gravitational
waves of space and time.

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poem by Diane Hine
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The Way To Rule A Village

That Village is perfectly under command,
When the Justice and Rector will go hand in hand;
Their power o'er the peasant can ne'er be shut out,
When jointly these two toss the bottle about.

But when it shall happen the two disagree,
Ill-nature, retorts, and returns, you may see.
The Peasants alarm'd will begin to take sides;
The plague becomes pow'rful--the village divides.

Then take this advice--you no farther need seek,
Let the 'Squire and the Parson get drunk once a week;
When into their breast they've transported the barrel,
Let the Priest and the Magistrate then shun a quarrel.

A Rector of Pride, and a Justice of Peace,
(With sentiments high, they could ne'er coalesce)
Met point-blank together, one day, on the road,
Though the ground each detested the other had trod.

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poem by William Hutton
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Voodooded Lips

VOODOODED LIPS
esspeecee …18.06.09.

In the mirror of silence
I’ll reflect you lips’ eloquence.

In the mirror of silence
I’ll blush-in by your lips’ glittrence.

In the mirror of silence
I’ll unfold your lips’ innocence.

In the mirror of silence
I’ll savor to the lees your lips’ elegance.

In the mirror of silence
I get psychic catharsis
In our lip lock reminiscences.

In the mirror of silence

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poem by Dr. Sakti P. Chakravorty
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Mark R. Slaughter

Just like the dahlia
Death comes in all its beauty

And so I stroke her petals
Push my feet root-deep
Into the composted soil
As weary clouds unite
Coalesce
Darken through the greys
In preparation

Incontinence prevails
Lachrymose in empathy

They cry for me
Sharing tears
Mortality brings
As twilight closes

I rot

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poem by Mark R Slaughter
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~ Past ~

~ PAST ~
Ms. Nivedita.
10.11.09.
UK

Past
Beginingless
Secondless
Mat chless
Ageless
Timeless
Fathomless
Speechless
Immortal
Eternal why
O’ You?

Civilization
History
Religion

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poem by Ms. Nivedita Bagchi Spc. Uk.
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Always for the First Time

Always for the first time
Hardly do I know you by sight
You return at some hour of the night to a house at an angle to my window
A wholly imaginary house
It is there that from one second to the next
In the inviolate darkness
I anticipate once more the fascinating rift occurring
The one and only rift
In the facade and in my heart
The closer I come to you
In reality
The more the key sings at the door of the unknown room
Where you appear alone before me
At first you coalesce entirely with the brightness
The elusive angle of a curtain
It's a field of jasmine I gazed upon at dawn on a road in the vicinity of Grasse
With the diagonal slant of its girls picking
Behind them the dark falling wing of the plants stripped bare
Before them a T-square of dazzling light
The curtain invisibly raised

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poem by Andre Breton
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A Fable

ONE day a sage knocked at a chemist's door,
Bringing a curious compound to explore.--
'Behold ! said he, as from his vest he drew it,
'This little treasure in a golden cruet :
A life, a long one, for my locks are grey,
In ceaseless toil has slowly passed away,
To gain that treasure, now my search must stop,
And see, I have but saved this little drop !
To know the worth and nature of the prize,
I bring it here for you to analyze.
The best philosopher could never quite
Its origin and essence bring to light ;
But you, they say, by some mysterious arts,
Reduce all substances to simple parts :
--Your nomenclature differs, sir, from his,
We call it happiness, --and here it is.'

And now the learned chemist strove to guess
With what this curious stuff would coalesce :
First sprinkled on a layer of golden dust,

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poem by Jane Taylor
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Programmed

Programmed since birth by Lord Almighty to diffuse
resplendent shade; was the gregariously blooming and
enchantingly exuberant tree,

Programmed since birth by Lord Almighty to disseminate
Omnipotent light; was the aristocratically flamboyant
and blisteringly blossoming Sun,

Programmed since birth by Lord Almighty to generate
rhapsodically unlimited tanginess; was the boundlessly
ebullient and triumphantly undulating Ocean,

Programmed since birth by Lord Almighty to fulminate
into a paradise of eternal sensuousness; was the
ravishingly titillating and celestially egalitarian
dewdrop,

Programmed since birth by Lord Almighty to mystically
enthrall even the most alien creature; was the
enigmatically uncanny and convivially compassionate

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poem by Nikhil Parekh
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