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Miss Rip Van Winkle
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Miss Rip Van Winkle |
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Scarlet Lady Member
since 2000-02-11
Posts 242Midwest 
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"Rip symbolizes the subtle changes of the township and the political changes of the society due to his sleeeping through the most important socio-political event of early America." Could that be true of our society today and the change it has encountered with cyber-space? hmmmmmmmmmmmm......... Just a thought! How times have changed, huh! Now we have the internet to lure us, and make us wild with romanctic idealogy in the form of a screen! Where are you? I wait I stare My position is fixed I wait patiently for hours Just to see you "appear" Where are you? Obviously, I am not as important Your priorities are not the same What is this internet fright? That I tend to day and night. I wait I stare All I see is your not there It is my problem Not yours, I am sure I need a cure I wait I stare And still your not there Until I am sleepy Give up all hope I will go to sleep soon With my heart of doom I wait I stare I think I no longer care But then .... You appear My heart races My eyes twinkle What the hell is wrong With Miss Rip Van Winkle?! |
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Kethry Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-29
Posts 9082Victoria Australia |
illusion, Very clever poem and I'm sure we've all done that at some time. I know I have. write on Kethry Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant - Thoreau |
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taramw Senior Member
since 2000-06-08
Posts 738 |
Loved this!  And agree with Kethry... very clever indeed ~ Tara ~ "A poem should not mean, but be" - Archibald MacLeish |
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fractal007 Senior Member
since 2000-06-01
Posts 1958 |
Cool poem. I like the points you've made about society. It is true, many people are "committing cyber suicide". They just go into the computer and never come out again. That happened with one of my relatives, and it cost him his career. The most tragic thing is that as the world gets worse, we the lucky ones of North America, will just dive deeper and deeper into the computer. Then who will be the force that has the power? |
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Hardrock Senior Member
since 2000-02-14
Posts 948New Hampshire, USA |
Illusion...I can relate well to this. It's like waiting on that e-mail that never comes again...and still you wait, and hope. Very well said. Hardrock |
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