Tag: #AprilPoetry

Digital Overdrive

#NaPoWriMo #GloPoWriMo Day 22

Book cover for George Eliot. Scenes of Clerical Life.

I am hurrying through life
No chance to stop and wait
To see moments unfurl
Relaxed, laid back, paced
For there is always
A new series to binge watch
Book review before the launch
Stories, poetry, Insta delight
Twitter wars, WhatsApp fight
Live Now on Facebook groups
Clubhouse, Discord, Spaces, too
Arts, crafts, podcasts, videos
Content overload, daily dose
Clutter, noise, brimming chaos
AI threatening to do our jobs
Pushing, pulling, stretching void
Competing with digital droids
An unreal life on a rushed clock
Clicking until time will stop!

Poetry inspired by the book cover for George Eliot. Scenes of Clerical Life. William Blackwood‎ & Sons, 1857 — Source.

Fantasies

#NaPoWriMo #GloPoWriMo Day 20

Book cover for Richard Bowdler Sharpe. Sketch-Book of British Birds.

What are fantasies?
Illusions with wings;
Birds uncaged
Floating free
Over dreamscapes
Hovering still where
Nightmares dwell
A magical world
With a wish
And a spell
In our minds we create
A wonderland, or
A raging hell!

Poetry inspired by the book cover for Richard Bowdler Sharpe. Sketch-Book of British Birds. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge,1898 — Source.