Web united us, fostering wonderful bonds. Automobiles, aeroplanes shortened distances, web zeroed it. Then came social network. Life changed. Conversations acrimonious, misinformation spread, fakes blurring reality. What we do? My creative as #poem “mask the net”.
Browsing Category Poetry
My tryst with wordsmithing
Cow-rageous
Distressed at the ugly twist of using surnames for shaming, I just could not fathom the new lows we stoop into. Felt very suffocated, but I did not want to be frustrated. To get over the feeling of sick, I wrote a limerick! “Cow-rageous” it is, what I think we should be all now.
(Note : koo is the new Desi Twitter)
Deranged
In olden times, you could be arrested if you are in the company of shady characters. In the era of digital, it is black and white characters that can get you into trouble. A young lady seen in the company of a document lands her in jail on Valentine’s day. Strange times we live in, distressing it is, as a #poem “Deranged”.
unbroken
In a world without borders, unified by a platform, wars happen. A war in the open, now to subdue the unbroken. A creative on #FarmersProtest where four young women’s tweets are seen as a national affront. In the world of digital, where is the border?
Beyond the cloud, into heaven
How do I feel with the rapidly changing times? Distressed and tired, I think. A creative take on ‘earlier and now’ as a poem titled “Beyond the cloud, into heaven”.
280 army
Everything is #digital today. Today’s war is digital too, fought in an open platform, in the cloud, with an army of 280 characters. A creative on the Twitterati wars as “280 army”.
Observations
“Why do you run round and round?
Why do you pound just to get browned?
Let me tell you, it is more than a run,
it is the sheer pleasure of observation.”
Bangalore Stadium Run 2021 captured in this creative “Observations ”. I bet you can spot some of the runners in this poem.
Gold
To a special cyclist who became SR in life (He crossed 200, 300, 400 and now 600 months). Enjoy the ride of life Mohan Subramanyam.
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For my non-cycling friends:
Super Randonneur is a title given by Club Audax Parisien when a person has complete four brevets of distances 200km, 300km, 400km and 600km in a cycling year.
Happy New Year
The earth goes about its journey quietly, just round and round. Humans on it make a big deal once it completes a revolution. Isn’t like the backyard ultra where the winner is the last man standing. Well in the case of planetary movements, we certainly don’t want anyone to stop!
A creative take on this as “Happy New Year”
Note:
The backyard ultra is a form of ultramarathon race where competitors must 4.167 miles in less than one hour. When each lap is completed, the remaining time within the hour is typically used to recover for the next hour’s race. These distance loops are repeated hourly. The race ends when the last runner or runners either concede or fail to finish the distance within the allotted time frame.
artificial intelligence
Making systems intelligent using machine learning, creatively expressed as an act of assimilation, of rebirth. Written for a brevity contest at @AllPoetry, that has be 24 words or less, titled “artificial intelligence”.