Ghazal Unplugged
Listen up! Life is not lived on silicon chips; live life unplugged.
How do you marry, carry on, raise kids on chips? Can’t! Be unplugged.
Keep your finger from that power key, or anything with a screen,
Doesn’t mean you died with your world fried, merely that you unplugged.
Busted! Opened my laptop landing; faceless hordes rushed my email
shrieking, the world is ending; send money now! Not when unplugged.
Writing a lonely letter, one that needs no @ or subject field,
just paper, pen, a stamp, a hand that doesn’t shake, equals unplugged.
To hell with “sent”, scrap the cyber amps, the headache-baking screens for
sexy scratches, my pen making paper love, me making unplugged.
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Yesss! Fabulous.
There’s a verse for the era! Love the use of ghazal. Thanks for this excellent, true and fun poem.
Love it, Lee!
Love it !
“my pen making paper love” is a gem
Wow ! Love love this.
Dripping
just dripping real.
Great write.
Amen! What beauty we have lost in the written letter for the unnamed assaults on our senses through computer screens. You have inspired me to write a letter to a friend I have been putting off!
Fantastic, Lee! ‘My pen making paper love” is truly inspired!
Love this use of form and repetition! It makes me want to draft
How I love a ghazal! You do it well!