Tweets and Texts
Creatures chirrup, chirp and tweet
Or warble in their way,
All so that in case they meet,
They’ll know just what to say.
It’s kind of like a human text
Or email or a call,
Preparing what to talk of next
If they connect at all.
Or maybe all this reaching out
Is just to hear expressed
The sounds that show what we’re about
To
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Categories:
texts, sound,
Form: Rhyme
everyone texts now
No one calls me now
My children text
My friends text
Wait
I lie
I get five calls a day
From…..
Scam Likely
I do not answer any of them
Maybe if they texted me
I would reply
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Categories:
texts, technology,
Form: Free verse
Just Me and My Texts
As I sit at home
Feeling so alone
I hear a ding
Come across my phone
Just a text message
Another text message
Broken record same song
It's probably just my mom
Wondering when I'm coming home
Or just my brother asking
What's been going on
Why do I need a phone
When I still feel so alone, I’m so alone
It's sad but true I must admit
The
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Categories:
texts, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Texts at Midnight
My bed is next to me.
It’s not enough.
Carpeted floors tickle.
The fan is making me dizzy.
My parents are in their dreams.
I pretend to dream as well.
I suddenly jolt.
I could do it, I could walk into their room and start crying and screaming, out of control…
I take out my phone and text them.
They can check their messages
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Categories:
texts, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Worth 10,000 Texts
Today a baby winked at me
another hilariously giggled
Worth at least 10,000 texts
or - yesterday - a thousand squiggles
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Categories:
texts, baby, fun, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Squirrel Texts An Order To Door Dash
he texted his order to door dash
what do we want for dip?
hazelnuts or walnuts?
acorns
the usual please, honey
he nodded
barbeque sauce with a side of nutella
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Categories:
texts, animal,
Form: Free verse
One Day
Maybe a day will come
That momma will be told
By the white coated men
We tried our best but failed
And on that day
You'll call and I won't answer
You'll text but there'll be no reply
Then you'll view a friend's status
My photos will be captioned gone
So soon, we'll forever miss you
And momma will be all tears
Papa will
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Categories:
texts, absence, bereavement, black love,
Form: Free verse
A Piece of Writing In Process
Once a poet is done psychically with his or her craft
With the vernacular of his or her masterpieces
It’s the role of the readers to add mentally missing pieces
Parts, ideas, images, a few words and a sophisticated shaft
To mechanize, modernize or upgrade the messages
A poem is, of course, a piece of writing in process
It’s a bubbling
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Categories:
texts, adventure, creation, emotions, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
At Last
Head on pillow at last!
Breaking up is a right blast,
Texts do need a woman's touch,
Send my ex 'guns to head' emojis, much!
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Categories:
texts, allusion, farewell, men, woman,
Form: Free verse
Stop Texts Stop Wrecks
driving home to you
“I luv u. b home in 5”
head-on collision
driving and texting
new car for graduation
“hi guys guess what I'm …”
busy city streets
need to text spouse I'll be late
pedestrian hit
“can't wait to see you”
crashed into car stopped ahead
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Categories:
texts, car, daughter, death, husband,
Form: Senryu
Texts From a Jealous Ex With Parenthetical Commentary From Me
She has everything you don't.
(we never had what they have)
Sleep is more important than me?
(it's 1 am & you're not my lover)
Why ask if you weren't interested?
(my father was missing & politeness)
I'm tired of trying.
(interesting role reversal)
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Categories:
texts, love hurts,
Form: I do not know?
Texts To Forget
"Has technology changed our attitude,
By silencing our platitudes
When we go online,
Surfing the net with accounts to mine
So easy to be mean or criticize,
Hiding behind a name not recognized
Feelings expressed,
You’d certainly regret
If face,
To face
The internet has changed the way we live,
With every answer it can give
An amazing resource and tool,
Just don’t use it
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Categories:
texts, anger, appreciation, character,
Form: Rhyme
Lost Feelings
Why would you waste my time
My effort poured on you
I give you all my energy,
But you dont follow through
You stop sending me messages,
leaving me without a clue
How am I supposed to know
That your feelings are not true
I like you more then a friend
But I won’t go tell my mum
As soon as she knows
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Categories:
texts, black love, break up,
Form: Free verse
The Texts Were Horrible
The texts were horrible, vile, and mean.
They were from the kind of person none of us had ever seen.
They were graphic, and horrible, a picture came that was crude.
We all could guess who sent photos of themselves in the nude.
We had suspicions, and we had them for quite a while
About these texts, so horribly
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Categories:
texts, anti bullying, bullying, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Grand Canyon
In western skies, an eagle soars, at ease.
Below, the curving Colorado flows,
Winding its way through deep and dusty seas
Carving canyon walls steep, through tracts of time.
Twilight to twilight, its myriad moods
Are freshly painted on those ancient walls
Like rich frescos of reds and tans and mauves
In syncopated colors, all sublime.
The eons are borne by water and
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Categories:
texts, history, nature, ocean, river,
Form: Free verse
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