[KA was not totally swayed by my first pass on "code poetry" so, with her permission, here is the exchange that builds out the concept a bit more.]

These things are certainly possible but what would be missing, at least in my stubborn take on it, is the creative aspect that attempts to incorporate human emotion/experience/transcendence into the
supernatural, etc.

I try and take this on without instinctively defending what is really a fledgling idea, and not automatically assume that code can be poetry. But I will try and address some of your questions to see how far the idea can go.

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This started with a podcast I was listening to that mentioned Ruby, a relatively new programming language that emphasizes clean layout of its code as well as syntax that encourages simplicity and human comprehension. That plus code’s emphasis on line breaks, punctuation, white space, etc. struck me as a variation of my friend KA’s “poetry space” idea (“the idea that a poem can exist as a space for symbol that could not be understood in any other context…a closed system analysis”).

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