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“turning page”
Written for: The Twiglets #284 – turning page Last page left to turn saddens me– end of book Autumn leaves turning are the pages of a tree. child’s delight rapidly turning pages to her favorite part Remember when everyone had … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, books, child, Haiku, limerick, Micro-poetry, technology
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Tomorrow is Today
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Poetics: Impermanence (posted by Merrill) “About a week ago, on a windy day, the sky seemed to change every few minutes. Rain to clearing to grey clouds to sunshine. It struck me not just … Continue reading
How To Refresh
Written for: Poetic Asides #431 – Write a refresh poem. Did not close down properly– refresh the page Aw Snap! Something went wrong– refresh the page Clear your cache and cookies– refresh the page Get off iPad, slam it closed– … Continue reading
Nature’s Constant
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads: Weekend Challenge – The News (posted by Brendan) The amount of news we are now confronted with is immense. In 2011, information scientists deduced that Americans took in five times as much information … Continue reading
Feathered Quill
Written for: Quickly #14 Someone has given you a fine pen. Feathered quill finely tipped pot of purple ink sitting on my window sill for I am ill equipped to and dip and blot, I think. https://imprompt.wordpress.com/2017/01/14/qkj-14/
The Unskilled C.I.
Written for: Poetic Asides November 2016 Chapbook Challenge – Day 5 For today’s prompt, write a wire poem. A wire poem could be about something that needs wires–like maybe a robot, TV, or automobile. But birds huddle on telephone wires, … Continue reading
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Tagged cinquain, crime, inept, technology, Written for Challenge
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All The Bells and Whistles
Written for: Poetic Asides November 2015 Challenge – Day 10 Two-for-Tuesday – Write a technology poem and/or an anti-technology poem. Cells, bells, drones, email, Instagram, Facebook. Digital scales and cameras, clocks with red lights. Green light-your computer sleeps, while you … Continue reading
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Tagged Another POV, crime, privacy, technology, Written for Challenge
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Invasion
Written for: Poetic Asides November 2015 Challenge – Day 6 Write a “we are being watched” poem. Humankind has really created a bunch of, umm, interesting things over the past 150 years or so. Some of it has helped save … Continue reading
In a Flash
Written for: dVerse Poets, Art of Nick Gentry Reading, holding pages, and turning them slowly. A mind being built of soft storage, hardens. Hypnotic images flash, sometimes scroll by too fast to fathom. Rustling sounds slip away, leaving a series … Continue reading