Tag: #PoemADay

Casting — 2022.03.04

Modern technology makes our lives shorter;
modern medicine works wonders in vain.

Remember time without emails
and notifications
and distractions without end?

The things we once craved are gone,
crumbled to dust in their obsolescence —
a shameful reminder that foolishness only adapts.


Once
nasty
people were
required to
face those subjected
to their scorn and distaste,
a way to make themselves feel
self-important . . . superior.
Now they hide behind a screen
and feel invincible;
minds are torn apart,
and trust is lost
in this world
virtue
shunned.


I’d reach back in time

and pull

All the good forward

If I believed the past could
truly simplify our lives today;

that task is ours.

Fast and dirty — 2022.03.03

If I were a pebble
I should like a referral
to become grains of sand on the beach;
to find my ways into toes,
into swimsuits and clothes —
and those mountains, so out of reach?
I’d conquer those too,
they’ll fall as the rest do!
Those defenses I’ll readily breach.
All the ladies will stop
to clear their swim-suit tops
and find them full of sand from the beach.


I guess I’m in a funny mood this morning — I got home from work, sat down to wade through an exhausting inbox full of email and decided to see if I could rip off a quick one. Today, some sort of tail-rhyming tercet scheme came out organically from the prompts and I guess I’ll just have to live with the monster I’ve created.

After all, there’s more where that came from!

😉


Follow the links in the poem’s text if you would like to scour the sources of my prompts: Fandango and the Ragtag Community. In their comments sections there is much more to discover!