Notifications from Nirvana - Odyssey of a digitally distracted disciple from scroll to soul
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NOTIFICATIONS FROM NIRVANA - ODYSSEY OF A DIGITALLY DISTRACTED DISCIPLE FROM SCROLL TO SOUL...
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Categories:
notifications, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
Forgive me
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I fell.
Not with a cry, nor with glory,
but as a cross falls
from the chest of one who forgot how to believe.
I fell on a Wednesday,
when the rain smelled of raw fish,
and the hurried wor...
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Categories:
notifications, faith, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Re: Re: Re: Re: Me Across the Pond
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I had to change
email addresses.
I couldn't keep up
with the alt accounts—
ten helpings
of the same subject.
you know they're automatic?
after you sign up
you have to go to settings,...
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Categories:
notifications, culture, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Love of the eternal one Part 2nd
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Rukmini:
Today, people fight over attention,
Cry over seen-but-not-replied,
Count minutes and measure loyalty through apps.
But love… true love… is not measured in notifications....
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Categories:
notifications, devotion, emotions, for him,
Form: Free verse
Still the Dust Sings
...after ‘The waste Land’, by T.S. Eliot
I met a woman on a glitching screen,
her face a whisk of pixels and prayer.
She spoke of shattered systems and survived code,
“The cloud remembers eve...
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Categories:
notifications, april, endurance, loss, recovery
Form: Lyric
We sit a few inches apart, with bright screens separating us through an invisible ocean
...We sit a few inches apart, with bright screens separating us through an invisible ocean,
We speak in pre-packaged echoes, algorithms feeding us thoughts that are not ours at all,
I send you a messa...
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Categories:
notifications, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Slave Without Chains
...Slave without the chains
hurt without pain
Wild yet untamed
Born with out a name
Why stand out while others are the same.
They tell me I'm free—
but my alarm clock owns my mornings,
my boss...
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Categories:
notifications, anxiety, freedom, imagination, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Red flags
...Red Flags
He hides his phone when you’re near,
Fingers fumble, clouded fear.
Notifications off at night,
Darkness veils the glaring light.
Silent whispers in his chest,
Half-truths spoken, ...
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Categories:
notifications, fear, feelings, hurt, marriage,
Form: Other
Existence of Survival
...Wake.
Commute.
Work.
Repeat.
They call this living?
I call it the hamster wheel—
spinning faster each year
while the cage only shrinks.
Three jobs to afford one roof.
Two hours of dayl...
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Categories:
notifications, environment, meaningful, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Feather
...all you ever needed was to be felt seen.
you hid yourself from this nasty world,
you moulded a side of you that hid your secrets perfectly.
my best friend don’t be afraid,
you carried me into thi...
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Categories:
notifications, brother, death, deep, farewell,
Form: Free verse
We Are So Connected, Yet We Can’t See Each Other Anymore
...We sit inches apart,
glowing screens between us,
a thousand miles wide.
We speak in echoes,
algorithm-fed replies,
pre-packaged thoughts
we never owned.
I send you a message.
You send bac...
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Categories:
notifications, conflict, internet,
Form: Free verse
A Poem For People Who Aren't Into Reading Poetry
...To be clear...
I’m not asking you to love this.
I’m asking for you to meet me
where the words land hard—
where syllables ignite
like the last coin
burning a hole into your palm—
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Categories:
notifications, appreciation, perspective, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
Digital Disconnect
...The living room,
Laughter clinging like a warm embrace,
Yet silence wraps us in a shroud.
Faces aglow from screens,
Eyes reflecting curated lives,
Fingers dancing over glass,
As warmth slips th...
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Categories:
notifications, absence, society, technology,
Form: Free verse
Compelling Confusion is so uncool -No Way? Yes Way-
...Crumbled like dust and I began to stumble like ashes with a gust of wind – that’s what I felt before exchanging smiles and goodbyes…
Oblivious obviously…removing the plank from my own eyes of deep-i...
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Categories:
notifications, angst, anxiety, community, confidence,
Form: Acrostic
Disconnected
...I stare into the void of glowing screens,
A modern-day oracle, my silent confidante.
How did life lead me to this pixelated precipice?
A chasm waiting to be bridged by strangers' stories.
The h...
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Categories:
notifications, addiction, age, allusion, cheer
Form: Free verse
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