April #AtoZChallenge and #PoetryMonth
1. To celebrate my appreciation of life
2. To experience the process of writing linked poetry, a form of Japanese renshi
3. To give thanks for and better appreciate a life well-lived.
The flowers are a colorful bonus for the #AtoZChallenge
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K is for Karma and Kobus Magnolia
KARMA
Letters, addressed
Stamped and postmarked
Mailed
Delivered
Read
Telegrams, then air mail
Telephones and texting
Computers and skype
Instant contact through
Email smiley faces
Facebook games
Twitter characters
News first hand
Almost before it occurs
Births
Marriages
Careers
Instant karma in an electronic age
Where will the world be
When the lights go out?
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With everything at our fingertips and our patience at an end, it is difficult to imagine if technology has us racing on a treadmill chasing the carrot or if it is technology racing to keep up with our imaginations.
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I agree with your closing reflection...
ReplyDeleteWe live in an instant gratification society where everything is just a click away! We want everything, and it must happen immediately. Patience is a concept that not too many youngsters understand.
Where will the world be when the lights go out? Where indeed...?
Writer In Transit
This seems especially poignant with so much talk about nuclear weapons testing.
DeleteHi Gail - having been in London yesterday and seeing everyone with a phone attached to them - I wonder if their eyes ever get a chance to be normal, or their ears can hear the bird song ... or if their brains get any 'brain space' as I call it ... a term that came to me amongst the hazzamagumph of dealing with my Ma and my uncle for their last years ... no space to think ... I think I've thought of a good new word!!!!! Cheers Hilary
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Interesting train of thought, Hilary. No brain space - no silence to think.
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