Long Glued to a screen Poems

Here's the deal, folks...
   This is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 2 parts. 
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I had not long lost Shona (German Shepherd) and was not sure because of my age and disabilities  if I should get another when my daughter spotted an advert .
I thought long and hard...

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Time and again he flashes those images before me;
The sin that so easily besets me
You should think that by now I get the picture
That I now understand his whims
That I can say “get behind me,...

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What kids are watching on telly
are crimes and crimes in all variety! 

Crimes of hate 
crimes of passion
acting it out at shocking rate
thinking in...

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Teachers and Faculty care less and less about students every year
If u aren't the favorite don't expect caring
Ur parents have to bring cookies to the bake sale
U have our children's life in ur hands
Take some...

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Millions of lives and souls untold
And to account it all
Words, lines, films
Imagination trims
A sliver of soft, scarlet ribbon
Hollywood rounds
Quills deliver
Writers flare with passion so strong
Filling minds with fantasies, reveries, histories
Tragedies
We consume it all like freshly...

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I know six languages, 
The one I write in
The one I speak in,
My mother’s words,
My father's verse,
And those of my brothers.

My mother speaks quickly 
In baking terms and 80’s slang
She speaks in sewing materials,
Starbucks orders,
And...

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Eyes have gone cold
making a statement bold.
'Dont get near me.
not if you want to continue to see.'

Skin turned rough
she appears tough.
while melting inside
No matter. the pain will hide

greiving the loss
agony clings like moss.
with no give...

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Toys of Yesteryear

Some of you have seen these.
Simple, beautiful toys.
Played on the living room carpet.
Sometimes on our knees.

Some right on an oil clothed
kitchen table.
No hang ups about the sexuality
of girls and boys.
In those days, we...

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It was last summer, I was on my phone since we arrived,
 Not once did I look up, Not once did I look down,
My eyes were glued to the screen of my phone,
I was in...

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Pollution
No shape, no color, no boundries
It is not the smog that blankets skylines
It is the people who scurry under it
We are born in to sin
I just wish it came with a shovel
We are programmed to...

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When I was a young boy, we had rabbit ears,
got ABC, CBS and nothing more.
If we would wrap the antenna in tin foil,
we’d sometimes get NBC on channel four.

Then along came something they called UHF,
if...

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This is the end and though I didn't shed any tears I still feel like 
something was torn from my heart and my soul.

 This one thing has kept my midnights filled when I was...

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It was first and goal with time running out 
And the home team needed to score.
I sat on a barstool glued to the screen 
Till I saw you walk through the door.
I missed the final...

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Flickers of flames
Licking embers
Slowly but surely
Do you see that?
Fire is catching
Fire is catching
Fire is catching
Every single
Pair of eyes
Glued on the screen
Following the recent reports
People kissing and raising their
Three middle fingers of their
Left hand
One by one
It’s...

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We humans are the gods of the computer age. We have mastered the use of ones and zeros. Some argue we have created artificial intelligence. But is it possible that ones and zeros have replaced...

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Those eyes trapped between thick lines of kohl, frigidly stare

But yet glued to the screen.

Those eyes tire with the glare

But are possessed by a power unseen.


A hundred emoticons fast as a pulse

Yet none stir her...

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You sit as always-earphones in and eyes glued to a screen,
soon you will stand and leave, sometimes you say goodbye,
I watch you in your other world to which I do not belong.

I go to the...

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There is trouble in paradise;
Living, breathing and hating in an upside down world.
In this fractured fairytale made real, 
Evil triumphs and we now root for the villain.
Good does not win and true love is the...

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Today the boy who sexually abused me got married.
I.
I got to spend the day feeling like the contents of my overfilled stomach were going to cascade out of me.
I got to spend the day glued...

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Keeping up with the Joneses
What I see is what I want 
Trapped in a comparison trap 
Never ending loop of haunt 

If only this then I’ll be happy
Easy to oversimplify 
Grass is always greener 
Your...

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Another Year Passes By
I look askance as the days pass by
even as they slip into nightgowns
and then it's the chirp chirp, caw caw
up and on to daily chores
displays on laptop
glued to the screen
see-saw with indexes
outcomes...

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Shaking to its core, the cries go unheard across a nation.

Eyes and ears are glued to a screen,
that can only translate the pain we cannot feel. 

Lives are lost; never forgotten. Yet the rumbling has...

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Techie Life

A place, dark and dingy
Two eyes staring, swollen
Glued to the screen upright
Sucking blood with techie tongues.

A table though with no work
Yet piled up with drafts
Of the ability and capability
That forced it to sit on...

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Lost the one I thought they cared for me.
I feel like a lonely fella, even the wolf has its moon at night.
Betrayal I get
Tears fill my eye
Heartbroken
Cold I turn
Heartless I become
Blamed for being the bad...

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