Online Poems - Poems about Online

The gods are online today, Updating their laws like software patches, Fixing glitches in heaven while we glitch on earth, Typing commandments no one reads, Uploading sermons no one feels. They scroll through prayers like spam emails, Ignore the bleeding body in the dirt, Reward the loudest liars, And punish the quiet truth. In their group chats, They laugh at those like me — Broken ribs,...

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Constantly seeking out validation, You don’t have to know me, But I wanna be your favourite. I want you to like me so much, I hate it. Share posts or tap to follow, Get blocked and deleted, such a hard pill to swallow, The lives are so full but inside they are hollow, Love it and like it and give it a...

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There are many guys online Each of them comes for purpose Either simply for having fun Or seriously for living curious Someone as me are just viewers Wandering online for kill-time Either for sunrise or sunset to come We are standing-by as specters Looking nothing for particular We are living in a special status Having rattling...

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Busy month my family very sunny here in Lakeland during covid July 1st 2020 filled with plans for the 4th of July and celebrating my husband and I wedding anniversary my granddaughter loved baking for us I adored raising my granddaughter summer reading programs in Florida keeping her on track although her allergies asthma...

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We first met coasting the blurred lines of the information superhighway. We exchanged polite words and respectful kindness, though we seldom saw or heard each other. I am the old man of touch and eye contact, you are the princess of text and illusions. I adapt to your hot realms, to your affinity for glittering screens because past and future, old and young...

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self disgust and disappointment for the slip-up but I need to know what cheapens intimacy devaluing myself devalues anyone with whom I would share something valuable it's why I'm detoxing from all these dopamine pumps and anesthestics (gambling and alcohol) how could online "intimacy" not be included in the mix that keeps me from feeling all must go until this backlog can be managed...

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They met online with one click She was a doctor, he was a prince Both were liars, each a cat-fisher slick All of their lives would make you wince She paid for dinner, he had forgotten his money In a few days they were calling each other babe and honey Perfect couple of swindlers and thieves When they swung by their relatives...

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It’s been 10 years since you last saw me. I’m softer. Matured. Unrecognizable. And yet the feeling of your roaming eyes still darkens my skin, the phantom sensations making me retch. Your vile intentions occupy a corner of my brain with no sign of conceding territory. I can’t go to the doctor lest that hotel room comes rushing back and renders me...

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Sophistication of sinister online skulduggery... lurks within the outer limits of cyberspace, where dark shadows eclipse edge of night indistinguishable from the twilight zone. Within the Internet binary size weavers loom shuttlecock whizzes (analogous to a bad mitten) at speed of greased lightning warp speed weaving courtesy electronic webbed wide world snaring and snagging poor schlemiel or schlimazel, videlicet snazzy convincing culprit, who gets figuratively sucker...

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© Artimus The Poet Susan Manley 11/11/20.24 All Rights Protected [Verse] I log in every day to get my fix (my man!) Your voice in my mind, the perfect elixir (Yep) You’re encoded into my dreams, feel you near A predestined love, it’s crystal clear (My online lover, you live so far!) We talk all night, it’s just...

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I sit down and write a poem to share. I have friends on Poetry Soup— they’re everywhere. They’re everywhere my friends online who also take the time to write and post. To write and post the insights we share flicker onscreen for the world to see. For the world to see we seek our muse to shape our dreams into stanzas others will see. The stanzas others will see bear witness...

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I can see it in your eyes from across the room, makes my heart ache, it’s a mistake - why do you compare the self-view, dark-hue worst of yourself to the online best of who? Gosh dammit! I can’t stand it! If I had a single wish – open windows, heal the widows and the few. Those...

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Screen springs to life Icons populate digital landscape There in the middle sits that little box Please enter your password Thinks what was it? Do you want a hint? Who was your best friend in 1957? Sorry wrong answer What was your first pet’s biological mother? Sorry wrong answer What is the height in millimetres of your favourite cousin? Sorry wrong answer Who was your literary hero...

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Your avatar’s cute here online I said, so to make her all mine. So we met at some place; I saw her true face she certainly was not divine!...

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I had friends once long ago who would give anything for me and just the same I was their friend standing true right by their side if they would call and say come right now and bring a gun I would be there so long ago so far away and today I stand alone my standards are just as they were and duty is so very strong and today if I should call no one does answer no...

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