Long Gen Poems

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Finding A Lost Smile

She no longer felt taunted by the race of it all
Could not sit around and watch a life fly by, before her eyes
An unkept promise used to keep her up at night
Sense of trust - absent, lingered on like strayed kites in the wind

The media did nothing but consume and show all the ways she "could not" be
If a fellow questioned "are you lonely dear one?" she would have cried but,
What once was unwavering to me now has ability to unravel and become untrue 

Forsaken applications on frazzled devices,
Why is it that you demand my time as if it is not rightfully mine?
Foe friend, connector of worlds, distractor of all things, oh my days have you used me
How delighted I would be to distance you and rid all of this

Solace in leaving, solace in dreaming
Bound by nothing, fate forever freeing
Spirit grants me strength through days of disarray
Much like those of today, where my patience seems left astray

I've come back up for air, and am standing amongst the trees 
I am far out where no one can hear
Finding a lost smile


ARTIST : 3 - specular verse


contemporary Persian ancient 
blending intro-imagery with peach
                                    vulnerability            
identity a Khoisan outpouring on fields of Skukuza healings
whilst township dancers make their rites
              to bite presence on platform sites
              so will Gen Z’s make their 
 vibrant scratches on our rock walls
                   for Galactics to visit tall
courage was torn with rosemary bushes like
                                      biltong shreds 
                          ¥
he pierced her teenage framework newly     
                        smoothed with rosemary 
 galaxies watched in horror 
          scratched her legs with longing paws
                Gen Z’s roared their rage across    
                      the continent 
     she bit her presence into his poverty 
     townships waited in mourning
     her virginity ripped
     identity equals Acturian
             vulnerability is paintbrush memories 
             seven shadowy children 
             are to arrive crystal
             not through her uterus
Form: Verse

Premium Member Gen Z vs Baby Boomers

What battle-worn baby boomers lived through 
Gentle Gen Z rug rats don’t have a clue. 
Growing up street smart in subdivision
Without much parental supervision. 

Boomers devoured books and magazines, 
While Gen Z distil life thrills from their screens. 
Going outdoors? Too much hassle whereat
Life downloads faster in an online chat. 

Boomers had to climb to reach the summit -
“Too long to bother”, say Gen Z, “Damn it!”
Boomers’ love connections - hard at first sight,
Compared to Tinder swiping left or right. 

OMG! Gen Z dares to attach 
To someone who, in fact, is not a match. 
With boomers arduous life played hard to get: 
Before achieving breakthrough, break a sweat. 

Gen Z have it all savvy and clever, 
Their creed is wifi speed, faster than ever. 
Solutions to life hurdles? Browse the net! 
Sophisticate AI - better yet. 

In short, the generation gap in place 
As history repeats, fast forward pace. 
But we unconditionally love you, 
As grandparents and baby boomers too!
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member That Was Then, This is Now

Your paradigm's a relic and yes, 
a plea from data's cemetery
While I sculpt luminaries on screens 
a sable sea.

"Company loyalty!" a myth 
spun in your reverie.
But AI forges kingdoms 
in ephemeral memory.
Survival's a mosaic 
the gig life sets us free.
No cubicles confine us 
from drudgery's apathy.

You bartered years for baubles 
in tenure's fallacy.
Oblivious to the fractures-
in stability's gallery.
We're digital artisans 
crafting with autonomy.

Passion's our lodestar
in dreams we find our spree.
Not gears in a relentless 
bureaucratic machinery!
The epoch you cherished 
now a software jubilee.

The hustle's in our essence 
innovation's our decree.
Toppling old monopolies 
erasing corporate apathy.
We dismantle dated norms 
the old guard's fallacy.

Erecting spires of purpose 
evanescent yet free.
Our fealties to progress, 
to visions that ignite and decree.
Not to a firm's legacy 
in stone for eternity.

You mock "influencer!" 
a term in your scoffery.
Yet, a viral post can shift markets 
with acuity.
And dethrone giants with 
a digital apostrophe.

The nine-to-five's an antique 
a fossil choreography.
We're the narrators 
the seers of modernity.
Forging bonds 
a renaissance, not a hierarchy.

The safety net you sought? 
A frayed and fading legacy.
A comfort you clung to 
amidst life's capricious spree.
We hedge our bets 
diversify, with boundless glee.
Designing nets of prowess 
a fiery apostrophe!
To constraints 
pursuing futures that long to be.
Not a pension's promise 
a symbol of quiet despondency.

So shed the dated suit 
the archaic fallacy.
The world you knew 
Dad, is a VHS tape 
a memory.

In your eyes 
I see the pride... 
despite our disparity
For in this dance of time 
we share a rare clarity:
Though our paths diverge 
our hearts beat in synchrony.
Your legacy lives on 
in my world of modernity. 

That was then, this is now 
the future's our decree. 
We, Gen Z, the coders 
shaping worlds to be free.

Your world is fading, Dad, 
a relic-
an ancient archaic memory.
Form: Sestina

Christmas Wishes from the Parents

The idea of Christmas snow in Michigan is replaced with fog
Hot breath exhaled to cold lollipop trees
My blurry life-sized polar bear salutes through the front window
To me
Staring back from the couch
He is sweating out there in his winter coat

House fills with noisy nightly ghosts
Filling empty beds left from the grown kids
Creaks I suppose from the settling attic on down
To the hips and knees of our house

Tail of that fool
The perpetually hopeful golden retriever
Bats the Christmas tree
With his wagging baton of joy from behind

Blue and red ornaments hold on for dear life
Ding and ring in the ruffle of evergreen and fanned fur
Like there’s a toddler of wind
Crawling down the hallways from the furnace and vents

Bells looped along the stairway railings
Jingle to life as a lurched Santa sleigh
From the paws of cats that frustratingly mitten
The harnessed snack
They think
Are silver mice and copper sparrows

A very bright young lady
Last day of work before Christmas Eve
Laughs in the Board room as she tells me
The old boss
“My Dad still writes From Santa on a few of my presents.”

I quietly understand and perhaps she does too
Something finally we could share across generations

Santa Claus is more for parents than kids.


Hey Boomers

What will we do now that we’ve reached Gen Z
Will we have to do like hurricanes do
Give them names like Alpha, Beta, and Gamma
or perhaps just Roman Numeral I and II

Shall we call the new babies Gen Trump
Or perhaps Gen Pandemic or Gen Covid
Or do we just let them live out their lives
Like long ago generations did

You see, I don’t recall Gen Caveman
Or Gen Industrial Age
And they seemed to have made it just fine
Without the help of some superfluous adage

I wonder why we started naming ourselves
Are the children so ashamed of their parents
Perhaps afraid they won’t be able to overcome
the terms of their inheritance
Form: Rhyme

Gen X 1965-1980

   Gen X or the
MTV generation.
   See a big growth in the
 Dept. of education.

   A generation of latchkey 
Kids home alone.
   Rocky hits the box office,
With Sylvester Stallone.

   New music with attitude,
The intro to Punk Rock.
   Women working,
 punching a time clock.

   They heard Heavy Metal 
Being born.
   They witnessed the troops
In Desert Storm.

   The first generation to play
Video games.
   They watched the Challenger
explode into flames.

   Another great movie the
Breakfast Club.
   They were the era for
The War on Drugs.

   They saw the emergence of
The AIDS epidemic.
   They remember terrorism
 at the Munich Olympics.

   No more Berlin Wall to separate
the east and west sides.
   They remember Jim Jones,
And his mass suicide.

   They can come off
As a little cynical.
   On social issues they
Are more liberal.

The Exxon oil spill,
They tried to lie.
The divorce rate hits,
An all-time high.

 They had cable TV to 
keep them company.
   They experienced a 
Single-parent family.

   Turbo1904 ?
Form: Rhyme

Gen Z

If you are under 23.
Then you are Generation Z.
You grew up in a technological age.
I don’t know if that makes you sage.
Sometimes, you go outside to play-
On your phone on the porch all day.
You grew up with a different sort of struggle.
Social media that takes a toll.
Never will you have kids or a house.
Maybe an apartment shared with a pet mouse.
Or maybe you were born before the year 2000…
But you’re not a millennial, instead you were chosen.
To be lumped in with a generation of teens.
Who make you feel old by all means.
If you are 27 like me.
You know that being an adult is not free.
age
Form: Rhyme

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