sillycon wordsmith
My tryst with wordsmithing
Seeded by Ramesh Gopalswamy’s post who wrote
“Even though I am old I may still be ‘otherwise’
but the second part of sentence is definitely valid”
in response to a poster that said “The reason I am old and wise is God protected me when I was young and stupid”.
Written for AP contest “The Wilderness make your own poem 17 words only include as AN”.
https://allpoetry.com/contest/2787696-The-Wilderness-make-your-own-poem-17-words-
Views on matters in social media are often stated in ‘absolute’ terms when really everything is relative. The thread of discussion gets tangled and chokes the people.
Poem written for AllPoetry contest based on the word prompt “Endoscopy” that had to be 50 words or less.
Triggered by word “instinctively” that was part of a comment by a good friend on a prior poem
In today’s age of speed and FOMO, every moment is a race, of doing more so that you do not miss out. To grab satisfaction by ensuring that you have not missed it and that never happens. Why ? Well, satisfaction is not something to chase down and catch, it happens when you slow down, immerse and become “Unified”.
Continuing on the theme of ephemeral, Maya is beautifully personalised as a imaginary sphere created by multiple spinning circles, each circle representing the eternal cycle of creation and destruction. Two metaphors woven into a tapestry of words as “The ephemeral II”.
Once upon a time we lived in the open with the largest dangerous animals, moving around, hunting them, starkly in contrast to today. Now, to protect ourselves from a tiny invisible virus we stay inside and fight with a needle, travel and movement shunned. Tech has grown immensely that it seems to the ‘only’ company to a human now. So, how do we free ourselves? Read this creative “Nomad”.
We were free once roaming the world, quite different from today where we are glued to a device in our palm tethered to Internet. Well, tech has rooted us but allowed us to roam virtually. What is this? Amazing transformation, or is it “Assimilation”?
Strange life we live today, absolutely in control with tech in our hands we think, but reverse it is really. Earlier with wrist watch we thought time was on our hands, but a hand cuff it turned out to be. Tech that is close to us is so very powerful that it takes over, while making us live with the illusion that we are in control. This conundrum versed as “Today” highlights this.