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Open Poetry #33

global arms

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

0 posted 2004-07-31 05:03 PM

We are all extensions…
arms,
of the global village.

Whom did you hug
or beat today?
*

Thanking Marshall McLuhan,
for these two concepts
which have inspired me numerous times:

"the medium is the message"
and
"the global village"

FYI:
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, in 1964. The subject that would occupy most of McLuhan's career was the task of understanding the effects of technology as it related to popular culture, and how this in turn affected human beings and their relations with one another in communities. http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/mcluhan.html

Professor Gloom
Member Elite

since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

1 posted 2004-07-31 05:38 PM

I must differ with you
Not on the poem, well done,
But the phrase: Global Village,
Because it’s wrong, this sphere is too complex for village status.

Global Society
Better evaluation.

Gloom

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

2 posted 2004-07-31 05:43 PM

love your take on this, Professor

Susan
Member Ascendant

since 2004-03-27

Posts 5104
walking the surreal

3 posted 2004-07-31 05:54 PM

Would that all should consider this a world filled with one race, one people, that of the human kind. I vote for the embrace . . .

susan

Happiness isn't something that happens to you, it's created from within you. Joy is a state of mind.

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

4 posted 2004-07-31 05:54 PM

Agree with Professor -- but great poem! And, Kacy, thanks for the interesting link which I will read in my spare time (marked favorites).

....jo

ice
Member Elite

since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

5 posted 2004-07-31 08:48 PM

MNS
To quote a bumper sticker.
"Arms are for hugging"
This poem made this old peacenik smile, Thank you....

------ice
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