Walt and Emily's Virtual Sky

Written by Gail R DeBole on March 16, 2022 Updated on March 21, 2022 What would Walt Whitman do? Would he tweet poem after poem If today was part of his lifetime? Tweeting Leaves of Grass to the masses Or would his poems be lost to the world Amid the millions of poems posted? What would Emily Dickinson do? Perhaps, still a recluse, but with a technical spin That jettisons her words throughout the virtual sky To the masses amid thousands, Floating amid millions of other poets’ words? Would both their words compete for the virtual sky? Words are competing, poets scrambling for The attention, the connection to others, and, perhaps fame, That the poets who came before earned Without the Virtual sky.