Sandra Haight Poet Free verse

The Gray Pods

In pods, pale and emaciated-
muscles atrophied, 
they sit behind thick goggles
deflecting stroboscopic lights;
huge headsets droning weird sounds.

Each human in a private pod
lost in grounded bliss:
every want and need, fulfilled
thru technological wonders;
instant information, entertainment.

Touch of a button simulation
to other places, via virtual reality.
No need to travel.  
Invited humans to visit in 3-D; 
necessities, via robotic drones.

In pods, ashen and gaunt,
they sit: empty, smiles,
traveling to unknown places;
eyes blinded from reality,
heading for grim, robotic essence.

A bleak view, future existence;
gray humans in gray sunless pods.
The world unto themselves;
life via at-whim commands.
More to say on the progression-

but I have too much to declare.


June 11, 2017

~5th Place~
Premiere Contest: The Bleaker The Better
Sponsor: Julia Ward
Judged: 06/25/2017

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Sunita U.D Palawon July 1, 2017 at 9:47 PM A truly bleak future for human beings. Well penned sandra. Congrats! :)

Curtis Johnson June 26, 2017 at 10:03 AM Hi, Sandra. Very interesting and thought provoking. Congrats on your well-deserved placement.

Julia Ward June 25, 2017 at 9:25 AM "More to say on the progression" is a neat line before the line I set at the end - "but I have too much to declare". You worked very hard on making this poem bleak, Sandra, making sure it was one of the five I chose. All the best, Julia Julia Ward June 25, 2017 at 3:21 PM I'm so pleased that my contest's theme led to your creative thinking and writing (that I saw very much in evidence). Sandra Haight June 25, 2017 at 2:22 PM Julia, thank you so much for your contest with a theme that offered so much open to creative thinking and writing. I am so pleased to have made your winner's list! Sandra

Lin Lane June 11, 2017 at 8:55 AM That's about as bleak, grim, and lifeless as I'd ever want to imagine. It's not life at all, and you've written dire prospects for that contest. It reads like a Twilight Zone script, Sandra, and that's a compliment ;-) Sandra Haight June 12, 2017 at 8:13 PM Thank you so much for the supportive comment, Lin! I really appreciate your visit and positive thoughts! Hugs, Sandra