all Masks show the truth
falses deny their faces -
dance of avatars
Categories:
avatars, allusion, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Senryu
Everything that’s real, hidden;
Safe to say? Not safe at all;
A virus exposed the masks;
Comfortable and complacent;
Giving in so easily,
False eyes, no humanity;
Avatars, threads, and chat rooms.
Categories:
avatars, computer, conflict, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Vagabonds – the lost Avatars
Virtual Vagabonds, avatars
lost amid the teeming Ethernet,
signal searchers illuminated
in the blue light of emptiness
Hobos of a cordless conga line
falling in and out of “bars”
fevered followers worshiping
at the altars of the asinine
Homeless thoughts adrift
in an itinerant infinity
collide with freelance feelings
weeping in crowded solitude
“Screenbound” globetrotters
hiking the world’s keyboards
wayfarers without wires
confined to their seats
“Life”, led by a scrolling finger
followed by two hundred “friends”
seeking validation of its meaning
in the contortions of “emojic” grins.
©9/24/2017
submitted to – Verse Me A Poem – Poetry Contest
sponsor – Broken Wings
Categories:
avatars, addiction, life, technology,
Form: Verse