single
mingle
(Cinq-à-sept is a popular term of french origin referring to a social mingling for networking or meeting other singles.)
AP: 2nd place 2026
As a parent, it's fulfilling feeling
For our children though their grown-ups
Still need them parental guidance
Near or far has grade constant connection
Is necessary for their growth and development
Constant communication is a must
Family is bond that is life strengthening
Family relationship is a lifetime responsibility
Genes is networking, it's a longtime business
Success depends upon good management
Family is like a tree, needs care and caregiving
Parents are the source of life, love and survival.
The information highway is paved with hope,
With heavy traffic towards love's embrace.
So while the ghosts of romance past lingers,
The digital domain is stocked full for every case.
It's like the Dating Game on cyber-steroids,
As singles mingle among all the apps.
Where their fingers do all the walking,
While trying to avoid the catfish traps.
This goes way beyond phone sex, to
Levels bound only by infinite fantasy.
Causing many to rely on wishful thinking,
And the rest to struggle with celibacy.
It's the 21st century version as a virtual
Bar scene, without the booze or barmaid.
Yet also absent are the drunks & bar fights,
So all things considered, it's a relatively safe crusade.
These characteristics highlight a main issue,
To where there's no real connection most of the time.
Just some fabricated stories behind the messages,
Leading one another on, to an unknown crime.
Gone digital
begun/beginning
Networking with me-self
Can't find a full-stop
to stop
What yer looking at fish-face???
Yer know
since yesterday
I can't find me thumbs
falling feet first
in-ter sub-monkey skills
I need more,
more white widgets
and black toggles-
got the wobbles, a bit keyed-up
Mind knitting its own computer
flashes of clever clogs,
clumps of soft-drive
in me ear-holes
got no cookies cooking
just a blinking memory
Dot-dash-board doodling,
screening plasma for bugs
and sneezy-bits.
Me lights are ticking
think I'm thinking
Blimey, will you look at that!
I got a virtual nose to pick
feeling sick of it
even though
me lid is plastic
Beep...
I am a believer in love in fact you could
Say I am sappily so.
I saw a posting on a social networking site about
what it means if your partner doesn't sleep
In the same bed as you.
There were varied comments but one stood out
to me.A man with an exotic sounding name said
And I quote him,It means I am so lonely as I love
her very much.
Now,I don't know this guy or his wife and I don't
Know why she quit sleeping with him.He may snore like a lumber mill or she could have caught him in the broom closet with her sister.
His comment sounded so sincere though it moved me to reply the following......
I wrote say sweetheart I miss you so badly and ask
that you return to our marital bed .
Within the span of an hour he wrote the following.
She said yes ! Thank you my sister.
It made my day.
Today's youth are hyper-social,
competing to stand out in crowds.
And the right to privacy is
an expectation of the past.
Thanks to computer connections,
today's youth are hyper-social.
And post emojis to support;
the groups they identify with.
Millennials equate friendship
to generated hearts and likes.
Today's youth are hyper-social,
tethered to their internet friends.
The internet generation
can be constantly connected.
And utilizing networking;
today's youth are hyper-social.
**Rigmarole of Computer Science**
A world of all practical reality,
Full of quantity with various quality,
An online environment with multiple facilities,
Plays a dominant role in every activity...
Strategies and technologies,
Count it with phone, radio, telex,
Developments and informatics,
Including television, photographs and graphics...
Digital systems with advanced concepts,
Makes our life almost perfect,
Whether it's computing the uncountable,
Or doing the impossible...
Not just a boon for the whole universe,
The world is also dealing with it's curse,
Hard to understand but make people curious,
The brightest, the smartest yet most dangerous...
Pushing businesses to another level through networking,
Shopping, travel, payments or brand building,
Data storing and electronic representation,
Consider social media and interactive stimulation...
Humiliating virtually or false dishonouring,
Be it cyber frauds or cyber bullying,
Such actions are deliberate and done repeatedly,
Can cause great harm, so be aware and use carefully...
Written by- Rashmi Kaushik
#MyDynamicEmotions
Eerily absent at first
neither dormant nor lurking
Even at maturation and beyond
neither networking nor smirking
In stealthy pursuit, it may produce
a twinge here, a creak there
Nothing serioius
nothing you can't bear...
Suddenly, there's a little more of you around the middle
You linger at the table, lazing and longing the morning away
The grind you'd long ago mastered starts impeding
on your newly precious days
You reach for the caffeine a little too often
and an afternoon nap is no longer foreign
Weekends can't come soon enough
and the bosses all act so young and tough
... Now what are you doing walking with a cane
and when did you come to fear a short drive in the rain
Every youth in a hoodie is a threat to you
~ Terror rules what's left of your brain
Why am I here? Why am I in this space?
My body is here, my spirit is not, what is the case?
I look at my surroundings and examine objects closely
As I’m sitting in a confined room that’s warm and toasty
I tell myself I obviously don’t belong here
This is not my destiny, but I know it’s near
These spirits are too comfortable and complacent
My spirit is solely focused on future emplacement
At the same time I need these resources and networking opportunities
So I can build bridges and uplift my community
There’s a goal in mind with a strict timeline
Cadence is key and sometimes I feel crazy like Einstein
Deep down, I know it’s part of the process for me to succeed
I’m just a vessel ready and willing to plant a seed.
Depletion of interchanges and expressions of information thru verbal networking is it the key? Misconceived and lacks freedom of one's expression in many ways of involving oneself often misconceived through speeches,
feelings, ideas and opinions, language barriers. Cogitate on the past, consider the
present and meditate on the future, Without
verbal communication one wouldn't function as thinking beings.
Sometimes, in weak generalities we talk.
We believe in TV, podcasts or social networking?
Far from making us genius political hawks.
Believing, seeking out a new, far more weak king?
Dementia dances across our blaring screens.
Nobody mentions the eight hundred Chicago dead?
Falls and forgetfulness do reign supreme.
While naught but propaganda dances in our heads.
The Nazis removed all civil rights!
Fascism is guite alive and well here today.
Best read up on how anyone could be shot on sight.
Lies infected most bright brains, alright!
Good, working people are considered bad?
If not dirt poor, you are considered a creep.
Better wake up, we have been more than had!
For my country, America, I weep!
5/31/2022
open you ears and hearts to prayer
seek everlasting life and truth
while avoiding the deception of the world
through media and social networking
don't let the delusions of the world
fog the lenses of your eyes
and stray you away
from the peace that you seek
Lisa and I got our emails the same day.
She read hers first. She made a small
sighing sound, the faintest of protests.
Then broke the news, with a scowl,
“They’re moving classes online “temporarily.”
I don’t want to talk about Corona any more
- I want to scream about it. Maybe we’ll
graduate, in three years, without knowing
what most of our classmates look like -
antithetical to “networking” at university.
I’m lucky, I know - I’m only inconvenienced.
I roam, safely, indoors, impatiently untouched by
adult, real world concerns, like jobs and money.
So I’ll keep my head up and smile like those
glamorous, happy girls in tampon commercials.
Narrow-minded,
egocentric Lefty
is thoughtful
Wide
and deep feeling Righty
is ecosystemically compassionate.
These two,
sometimes resonantly together,
too often dissonantly apart,
continually try for win/win
ego/eco-balance
Sufficient compassionate enlightenment
Lefty
And EarthJust empowerment advocacy
from our interdependently networking
co-empathic Righty
Engaged in a lifetime
healthy nonviolent communication
positive-positive
positive-negative
negative-positive
negative-negative
EgoSensory-NeuroSystemic frequencies
of individuating/attaching experiences
of Earth's dialectical fractal light
and dualdark powered
systems incorporating I and Self,
Ego and Eco
wide and deep systemic
bicameral
contextual
emotional intelligence
PolyPathic,
PolyPhonic,
PolyVagal neuro-sensory languaged
nonviolent communication
for restoring Ego/EarthSystemic Justice.
I met you, you met me, I fell in love directly
the moment passed by but my soul got stuck in there exactly
I think your vibe's deadly, coz it's killing me every
waking hour, I don't even know what's more unhealthy
obsession I'm obsessed with or the love that I'm blessed with
I wish I had a lady for in gown for the tux that I'm dressed in
I'm sitting by my self on a table meant for two
in a networking event no-one seems to be getting through
I don't even have a clue, don't even know what to do
all this liquor feels water, coz he alcohol, it's you
now the family feels neutral and friends overrated
because no-one gets the point and I'm all over explaining
now I'm tapping to a self' where my heart, I don't engage it
all the plane of emotions, affections I'm tryna harbour and cage them
And on the very noon I'm feeling myself and relaxed
I spot you in the crowd alone, here I come, relapse
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