We text love
Text we hate
We transmit feelings
Transmit we abuse
Don’t you kiss her textually
Only to amuse?
Sennacherib emerged on the banks of Nokianvarta
And with his royal-rage cellular
Encaged the runner-Hezekiah
And sealed the fate of post offices forever!
The handset, a giant miniaturized for your palm
Keeps you composed and calm
Ethero-numerically couriering your personal psalm.
O bonsied rectangular giant
Imprisoned in the cellular container
You have rendered surface mail redundant
You have made defunct the iconic runner
A whole tribe you have buried and the letter.
O digital Aladin’s lamp
Your service of the thousand years
Your multi-task Janus-runner static
Frowns at letters as ‘snail mail’ and old pedantic
Making the warm, emotion-soaked letters dodoic.
No more does Pamela ink her pangs and passion
She just keys-in and presses ‘send’ button.
Now Obama texts, Putin texts
And Modi texts and ‘mudi’ texts
Lover texts and hater texts
You text, they text and I text
With or without pretext.
And hence Carolus Lineous
From the other end of the horizon
On a new echelon
Puts the *****erectus-
*****sapiens, the *****textus.
Categories:
carolus, change, humor, time,
Form: Free verse
one diminutive flame
wields sway over shadows surrounding
embers at birth, embers at death
flickering wildly between
there are some of whom it is clear
walk the earth as spawns of fire
an eternal blaze the blood of their vein
brandishing the sword of their brethren
adored are they, abhorred are they
and yet dishonored are they never
risen up like the harvest moon
tasting sweetest wine upon their lips
one diminutive flame
wading gently into night's black clutch
embers at birth, embers at death
untouchable, if but only for a moment
Categories:
carolus, death, history, life, mystery,
Form: I do not know?