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Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

0 posted 2019-11-17 07:55 PM

Drones

Down the escalator,
Face remarkably calm.
She’s found the means to sate her
Fits comfortably in palm.
She walks by unobserved,
By him, lost to a stare.
His reality served
By something else not there.

“Likes” become a crusade.
Games take away the pain.
The digital Band-Aids
But a compulsive strain.
Think Alice had it right
In truth we’re all just clones.
Walking, driving, day and night,
We can’t set down our phones.

Free to be someone else
You truly want to be
It’s easy to lose self
In this world of make-believe
With everything you see
The product of you clicks,
In what amounts to be
A zombie apocalypse.

Your own customized news,
Designed solely to pique.
They optimize your views,
If needed, give a tweak.
Just so long as their own
Finds your unconscious mind,
And your dollars are thrown
Unto their corporate grind.

Being driven like drones,
Whose need is it we fill?
In our own worlds, alone,
Believing it our will.
You’ll never think about it,
The distraction too much.
‘Sides, you can’t live without it.
Who needs a human touch?

Michael Anderson

[This message has been edited by Michael (11-17-2019 08:30 PM).]

Paul Wilson

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since 2002-07-07

Posts 4711
United States

1 posted 2019-11-18 01:54 PM

Michael...There are so many trueism's hidden in this masterpiece. Enjoyed my friend...Paul

~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~
Paul

Parker
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since 2000-01-06

Posts 3129
ON

2 posted 2019-11-19 03:54 PM

michael very deep is this poem. enjoyed.

Parker

augustsky
Senior Member
Posts 828
midwest US

3 posted 2019-11-24 07:33 PM

Right on Target! Michael
It's said people don't Look Up anymore,
not even to do some old fashioned star-gazing.
Guess I'm obsolete..
Enjoyed this bit of truth-telling

Sky~

Autumn..
The Golden Hush
Before Winter~

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

4 posted 2019-11-26 05:50 AM

Thank you all for the kind replies.

Sky, I wrote a Stargazer poem once...right along the lines about what you just said. People no longer looking up. maybe I'll dig it out for you.

Michael

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