John Hamilton Poet Couplet

Home Alone With the Family

Playing Group Solitaire

Daddy's watching the big game in his man cave with the boys
He works hard and he plays hard loving all his expensive toys

Mommy's on her cell phone in her room talking to her girlfriend
Wondering why her marriage feels like it's soon coming to an end

Sarah's texting her new boyfriend, that no one knows, things she should not
She has no self esteem but hey! look that's what her parents taught

Jimmy's in his room on his cell phone surfing on the net hard core ****
His Dad doesn't teach him anything, he wishes he was never born

So this is family life in the modern world, isn't technology great?
Why not talk to each other, spend time together, before it is too late!


John Derek Hamilton
April 07,2016

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Timothy Hicks April 10, 2016 at 1:22 PM P.S. Thanks for reading my Question in the Sky poem. To answer your question I used "Yeshua" over "Jesus", just because I think it's a prettier sounding name in Hebrew, and I thought it went better with the overall flow of the poem ... I have an odd fascination with Hebrew for some reason ... lol. John Hamilton April 12, 2016 at 10:21 AM El Shaddai appreciates all who glorify his name!

Timothy Hicks April 10, 2016 at 1:19 PM You tell it like it is, John ... very sad situation for a lot of folks, and I think we are all guilty to some degree. I've written a sonnet about this topic before, but I think yours was more hard-hitting I think ... lots of people doing their own thing, failing to connect. Your name "Playing Group Solitaire" was clever in that aspect .... well penned, my friend! John Hamilton April 12, 2016 at 10:19 AM Thanks Timothy appreciate your visit and observations

Andrea Dietrich April 8, 2016 at 6:55 PM Yes, this is what it has come to. I know so many examples of this, John. VERY good one. You know, it could even fit the contest on abuse because it's a form of abuse to teach your kids to be this way. John Hamilton April 10, 2016 at 7:36 AM Technology needs to be controlled, or it will control us. Thanks Andrea