Category: Programming Poems

Poems written in various programming languages

07/01/25 A New Poem for a New Day

Photo Credit: Johnny Cohen

goal = 120
motivation = 15
progress = -1

while(progress < goal):
progress += motivation
motivation -= 1

(I wrote my poem for today is in the programming language, Python. For anyone unsure, the trick is to calculate whether I can ever attain my goal as my motivation goes down.)

Blast from the Past (another math equation-based poem about losing motivation to reach one’s goal):

Energy(Attempt) + Initial_Progress = Progress
Wishful_Thinking – Realism = Goal
Learning = Success % Goal
Success = ProgressGoal + Learning Success = (Energy(Attempt) + Initial_Progress)Goal + Learning
Success = (Energy(Attempt) + Initial_Progress)(Wishful_Thinking – Realism) + Learning Success = (Try + (Learning – Past_Failures))(Wishful_Thinking – (Past_Failures – Learning)) + Learning
Success = (Try + (Learning – Past_Failures))(Wishful_Thinking – (Past_Failures – Learning)) + Learning Success = (Try + (Learning – Past_Failures))(Wishful_Thinking – (Past_Failures – Learning)) + Learning
Success = (Failure – Past_Failures)(Developed_Wisdom) + Learning Success = New_FailuresDeveloped_Wisdom + Learning
Success = Fail_Completely + Learning
Success = Learning_Anew

06/09/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo Credit: Mohammad Rahmani

// A Java Haiku

public static void
haiku(String cheese) {
System.out.print(cheese); }

Today, I felt like writing a haiku in Java. It’s a programming pun, based on the common word “string” in programming lexicon but also the idea of string cheese.

Blast from the Past:

‘ Haiku in Basic

print(five_word_sentence$)
print(five_word_sentence$+ ” and then”)
print(five_word_sentence$)

1/24/25 A New Day, New Poem

Photo Credit: Hannah Wei

I wrote my poem for today a poem in the programming language Python instead of a haiku:

def nothing():
return 0

try:
perfection = 100
progress = 0
percent_of_success = perfection/progress
except:
nothing()

Blast from the Past:

What do you get by
Winning the rat race but to
Become the best rat