# Ruby Poetry

**URL:** <https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-poetry/10922>\
**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [7 April 2004 16:38 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-poetry/10922 "2004-04-07T16:38:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elias\_Athanasopoulos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/43a26b/32.png) [@Elias\_Athanasopoulos](https://rubytalk.org/u/Elias_Athanasopoulos)\
**Post date:** [7 April 2004 16:38 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-poetry/10922/1 "2004-04-07T16:38:21Z")

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Hello!

I don’t know if anyone has done it before (I did some Googling,  
though), but this is my first attempt to create a Ruby poem  
(ala Perl Poetry), which I thought it would be fun to share  
with you.

Here it is:

> **···**
>
> # 
> 
> # 7/4/2004, elathan
> 
> # 
> 
> require ‘ruby-poetry.rb’
> 
> :elathan.is [“bright”, “clever”].but.also(“smart”)  
> :moonlight.is “lovely”.but.never(“so much!”)  
> :theanswer.is Sometimes.unknown
> 
> praise :elathan  
> praise :moonlight
> 
> for everything in ($something = [“from”, “heaven”, “to”, “hell”]) do  
> [Enlight.us](http://Enlight.us) $theanswer = (everything + $moonlight).depth + $elathan.join.depth if everything.eql? "heaven"  
> end
> 
> elathan@velka:~/src/ruby/poetry\> ruby poem.rb  
> elathan is bright, clever, smart  
> moonlight is not lovely so much!  
> But, the one that will always be true is the answer of all: 42
> 
> You can find the ruby-poetry.rb at:
> 
> ```
> http://null.edunet.uoa.gr/~elathan/
> 
> ```
> 
> Maybe it would be fun to create a full library for Ruby Poetry.
> 
> ## Enjoy,
> 
> University of Athens I bet the human brain  
> Physics Department is a kludge --Marvin Minsky