Life Before the Internet
...I recall writing checks in my spidery crawl.
The TV then was a humming spaceship
with glowing innards that deep-scanned
all who glued their flickering, bug-eyed minds to it;
it abducted whole fa...
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Categories:
betamax, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Years Later
...Many years after leaving London
I return to the city
it is still dreaming of better days.
I am burdened with landscaped memories,
recordings taken with out-of-date electronics;
one is a Betam...
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Categories:
betamax, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Back To the 80s
...ake me back to the 80s,
with top gun all the rage.
with me VHS and Betamax,
and Ceefax holiday page.
Keith had is hand up Orville,
the Rubix cube was fun.
Samantha had her baps out,
on the ...
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Categories:
betamax, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
1980's
...Back in my day shell suits were the latest fashion
And I made sure I wore my diamond socks with a passion
The only sky I knew was the one up above my head
No dvd player, just a betamax had to do i...
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Categories:
betamax, nostalgia, me, old, day,
Form: Rhyme
Unfulfilled
...Oh the mighty Titanic,
Unsinkable, so they say
And how about the Spruce Goose
So majestic yet such a waste
We were regaled with Hubble
The advance of our century they said
Of course they also ...
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Categories:
betamax, introspection, life
Form: Free verse