Short Two Dimensional Poems

I watch myself now and all I see is just the two-dimensional me

11/17/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

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Hieroglyphs etched upon rock walls
Leave clues for future observations.
Egyptian artists in ancient times
Told their stories in animations.

Holograms are recent constructions
That employ 3-D displays
On two dimensional surfaces,
On which its objects amaze....

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Commodities.
Packed up
Wedged together
Shut out from light and air, 
Little creatures indifferent to life or death
Stacked.
Branded.
Horrified
Of what comes
With the open door.
Looking for the first opportunity
To Leap
Escape
This intolerable life.
The Mass grave
Of a two-dimensional reality....

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PRESPECTIVISTA fracesca uccello
sophisticated
  two- dimensional
picture
  space
 proportionzl
 & measured
vanishing point
in
parallels
of
distorted
  aesthetic
    assumptions
of
natural
reality
in
i!lusions
  made
possible
in
spatial
  horizontals
of
receding
  versimultude
In
muted
   contrasts...

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Your image, 
a malfunctioning promise
idles in my handbag.
I took that picture
when I took your word
never expecting both were
two dimensional.
I can’t breathe life into your promises
any more than I can infuse it 
into your photograph
but at least I have something tangible 
in your picture.
The promise remains a myth....

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Yosemite enchants us with her beauty,
And throngs take two-dimensional pictures
To fill 8x10 frames and social sites.

She speaks with water and light, but only
iPhones listen – for few sit quietly 
To hear her murmurs of mystic meaning.

She remains but a photo-op and her
Spirit breaks – she pleads, ‘Hear me, please!’ as
Granite-rim tears smear her mascara.

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Digital smiles and digital laughs...
My fantasy girl, to whom I frantically type...
I know it's not real and can never be.
I wonder if she smiles while typing back at me...
I suppose she's a way of filling a hole...
That black empty void that is my soul...
Two dimensional lust on a tiny screen...
She's the most beautiful girl that I've never seen...
Although she is a million miles away...
My digital angel gets me through the day......

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I'm sipping on a couch-boat in
Van Gogh-painted water.

Bill Evans is dueting his blue-kind 
keys with my jolly time ticker.

When my eyes are shut, I think two-dimensional.
I think onomatopoeic.

Fancy that.

Afterall, my generation combines words like
"emotion" and "icon".  My generation puts

society on a screen...

Ah, but I suppose the 
next will convert the universe into binary, 

and leave me behind
with my coffee, and jazz....

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Caught inside a painting,
A Rembrandt, made of her family's hopes and dreams

Searching for happiness,
Within a two dimensional canvas, little scope there seems

Outside the colours,
Someone captivated by her beauty, hearing her empty screams

Only for the key,
Longing to be outside, he opens the door and beams

Filled with intrepidation,
Beckoning “come outside”, his love for her it teems

She turns away,
For others she must stay, hiding from her dreams....

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the new norm
people seem more angry
out of sorts with each others
dissatisfied with life

the new norm
grandparents are two dimensional
seeing their grandchildren on screen
manners are out of date

the new norm
thank you notes are unheard of
appreciation is answered with “no problem”
people sit next to each other and speak through text

the new norm
more suicides
unhappy people
Utube is raising the children
Their parents can barely feed themselves...

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