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Are You There? · Poetry Short Short ·
Organised by Anon Y Mous
Word limit 100–2000
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Signal to Noise
Connection, connection: it sparkles, stalls, or fails.
The universe blossoms and dies along its trails.
In love or in friendship, in apathy or hate,
Expression's a must to extend and stimulate
Exchanges of knowledge and all that such entails.

I stutter. I stammer. My words emerge as wails,
Destroying my contacts like plants beset by snails.
For all I'm attempting, I never demonstrate
Connection. Connection?

Withdrawn, I consider. Extensive doubt assails
My plans as I draw them, and yet my hope prevails.
Unwound and displaying, I'll try again, create
A semblance of patterns that might communicate
Machine thought to humans, the rising step that scales
Connection. Connection!
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Regular syllable count, but irregular rhythm. Rhymes are good.

I'm not sure what this one is saying either. Through the first two stanzas, it seemed to be using the inability of a radio broadcast to reach its intended recipient as a metaphor for people failing to communicate. But in the third, it seemed more like... I don't know. A machine trying to convince people it was intelligent? An experiment to put an AI in an organic body? I like the construction of it, but I'm afraid it might be going over my head.