SOS - pipTalk Forums

How to Join	Member's Area	Private Library	Search	Sanctuary		Login
Main Forums	Discussion	Tech Talk	Mature Content	Archives	A home without a wall, Our haven without ends, A circle we all call Our Family of Friends!

Master
Senior Member

since 1999-08-18

Posts 1867
Boston, MA

0 posted 2008-07-10 04:23 PM

The generational gap is a snare
And the price that we pay is steep.
With no free minutes to spare,
Our cell-phones sing us to sleep.

Our guardians stayed in the past –
We’re alone. We demand an apology!
With no one to look after us,
We are raised by technology.

We follow the latest trends,
And create our friends in our likeness
In our virtual world of pretense.
We pray to our desktop icons.

We scream at the deep blue square,
But no one inside it is listening.
We sit, transfixed by the glare
Of a thousand pixels glistening.

We are social butterflies bound
By the world-wide-web of distress, -
No, we aren’t “laughing out loud,”
We’re sending an “SOS.”

http://home.comcast.net/~kneller/aboutme.html

Danny Cobb
Member

since 2008-07-09

Posts 74

1 posted 2008-07-10 05:09 PM

This is a very telling poem, of our times.
It had a lot of meaning to it-- but the rhyme scheme iis a bit scewed.  But I prise message over method--and your words ring out loud & clear!
  Say on, Bro!
    Danny

scoff
Member

since 2008-07-04

Posts 71
Georgia

2 posted 2008-07-10 06:51 PM

"With no one to look after us,
We are raised by technology."

Originating as a series of columns in the L.A. Free Press (an underground newspaper in the late 60's), Harlan Ellison's The Glass Teat compiled his essays on the influence of television on society.

You might find it interesting.

threadbear
Senior Member

since 2008-07-10

Posts 817
Indy

3 posted 2008-07-10 07:05 PM

An SOS is only as good
as the hero
who hears it.
Well thought out, Master

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

4 posted 2008-07-11 01:11 AM

A true sign of the times, Master. So well done.
Ida

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

5 posted 2008-07-11 03:14 AM

This is not a new problem either - it's building up and getting worse each year. Nice to read your poetry again.

	⇧ top of page ⇧
All times are ET (US). All dates are in Year-Month-Day format.