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Category: Poem of the Week

Something Called The Digital — Poem of the Week

In the early days of pre-computing, there was a reference to something called “the digital”–from which this week’s poem takes its title. If I say to you: Towering figures from the history of computing, like Claude Shannon and John von…

Sisyphus in the Easter Garden — Poem of the Week

Well, it’s Easter weekend as I write this and Christendom has taken some harsh blows even as the most important day of the liturgical year has come again. Bombings in Sri Lanka, the burning of Notre Dame Cathedral in France……

How to Know You’ve Been to Germany – POTW

Let’s just say, right from the start, that if you’re German you probably will think I’m crazy by the time you finish reading this week’s poem. If you ever have traveled to places where you’re quite obviously the outsider, maybe…

Lifeboat Exercise – Poem of the Week

I’m one of those people that doesn’t like structured “fun” and particularly not the “lifeboat exercise” Maybe you know the exercise I mean. It’s been around more or less as long as team building exercises have been a subcategory of…

Flood, II – Poem of the Week

Yesterday rain, today snow, tomorrow, who knows? The Mississippi River at a gauge in New Orleans stood at 16.79 feet this afternoon. Flood stage is 17 feet. If you’ve been watching flooding around the US and have a good grasp…