Dear Temporary Bliss,
I Sense a Shift Amidst
When I No Longer Crave Your Embrace or Your Kiss
Reaching For The High Hanging Fruit
Wet Behind The Ears, "Know It All" Youth
Suspicion Birthed By Intuition
Mercury Retrograde Enhanced Mis-communication
What A Situation I Have Found Myself In
Barely Hanging On to the Rope of Tolerance
Patience Account In Overdraft and Fading Thin
But The Wife In Me Will Surely Win!
Silence is Loud When Truth is Eluded
Fruit Picking Like an Opportunist to Opportunities
You Can Fool Them, But You Can't Deceive Me
For You See
The Crone in Me Knows The Truth
Her Flaming Torch Will Be Your Retribute!
The Lord Who Came First Has Long Departed
Leaving Behind an Amateur Who Can't Grasp How This Situation Started
Masked Grandeur In A Truth Parade
Is It Me or Yourself You are Trying to Persuade?
Sorry, Not Sorry!, I'm Not Drinking Your Sour Lemonade
Your Version, Illusion of Love Has Left Me Bored
My Time, My Energy and Sanity You Cannot Afford
No Regrets At All for The Time Invested
It's Just That You're Not My Type and I'm Not Interested!
Categories:
offline, poetry,
Form: Free verse
I have COVID and feel kinda ill
But I love my poetry friends on soup
Thanks for prayers and free will
Wishes on contests telling me how’d I do
I will try to check in every now and then
Forgive my late replies
COVID took my energy but then
Not my spirit my imagination still flies
Categories:
offline, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
We will follow the rules of balance in using device
We will not compromise on time of sleep and exercise.
Categories:
offline, sleep, time,
Form: Epigram
F- Forgiving, faithful and frank.
R- Reliable, resilient; add respectful, too.
I- inspiring, invite you to their hearts' doors
and are ever so invigorating!
E- Edify, enrich your days and are very
empathetic!
D-Delightful, dedicated to uplift you, and
ever so dear.
Thank you to all my friends. You make my days.
Love, Panagiota
5/17/2019
9am PST
Categories:
offline, friend, friendship, internet,
Form: Acrostic
It wasn't hard to turn it off.
I felt like I was free.
Until I started missing life
connected virtually.
The world was now inside of me
and I was now it's slave.
Where fear of stepping out to be
was more than I could brave.
Categories:
offline, absence, abuse, addiction, analogy,
Form: Quatrain
An Offline Hello
Whatever happened to hello?
Meeting and shaking hands
That moment of sharing yourself
That was a big part of life
There were no strangers
Just friends you haven’t met
Conversation used as an ice breaker
Learning more about the person as you spoke
That was an eternity ago
Before the invent of smart phones
Constant contact with the internet
Naked pictures and Facebook pages
Embarrassing videos from when you were a teen
Slander and gossip posted in a moment of anger
A million pages of someone with the same name
Not all of it true
But it must be since it is on the web
One time go back to the old days
Meet face to face not screen to screen
Forget that you have the ability to text
Sit down and just talk
Get to know each other
Take time to learn their history and mysteries
For once don’t look them up on-line
The real person is so much better
They just want a simple hello
Categories:
offline, computer-internet, friendship, romance, time,
Form: Free verse
I sign in my messenger,
And scan my buddy list.
As my cursor scaled the names,
My finger couldn’t resist.
I clicked the mouse on your name,
Like I’d done a thousand times.
I stared at the blank page,
Where you used to write your rhymes.
I’m overgrown with sadness,
Happiness ceases to begin.
It reads, you’re unavailable and
You’ll receive the message upon signing in.
That’s where things get tough,
I know that will never be.
The moment you left my life,
It felt like someone robbed me.
They stole my bestest friend,
Leaving the greatest memories behind.
My whole list has yellow faces,
As yours appears permanently...offline.
__________________________
‘Bestest’ is misspelled purposely,
dedicated to a friend that I greatly miss.
Categories:
offline, death, loss, sad
Form: Quatrain