Poetry competition CLOSED 8th January 2023 1:44pm
WINNER
PAR (PAULO ACACIO RAMOS)
PAR (PAULO ACACIO RAMOS)
RUNNERS-UP:
Zaynab_kamoonpury
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The 24 Hour No-Cellphone Challenge
Poetry Contest Description
Literally turn your phone off, for 24 hours, then write about your experience
Let's get another comp going , along the lines of the Silence one, but this one is specifically for quieting our cellphones.
Pick a day over the next 2 weeks when you can stomach, turning off your phone for 24 hours, and write about your experience with that. How did you feel? What did you do or accomplish? What took the place of your phone in your life? Etc.
If you can't do a "fast" with your phone because it's needed for your job or a situation such as in my case, where it's an emergency healthcare pager for a family member , then find another electronic based device or thing that you can not partake of for 24 hours. Maybe a gaming console, radio/stereo system, or even just the internet in general.
No porn, erotica or collabs. Poems or prose , as many entries as you want to try fasting phones & electronics for 24 hours over the next 2 weeks.
Are you up for this challenge ?? Can you last for the duration? On your mark, get set-- GO!
Pick a day over the next 2 weeks when you can stomach, turning off your phone for 24 hours, and write about your experience with that. How did you feel? What did you do or accomplish? What took the place of your phone in your life? Etc.
If you can't do a "fast" with your phone because it's needed for your job or a situation such as in my case, where it's an emergency healthcare pager for a family member , then find another electronic based device or thing that you can not partake of for 24 hours. Maybe a gaming console, radio/stereo system, or even just the internet in general.
No porn, erotica or collabs. Poems or prose , as many entries as you want to try fasting phones & electronics for 24 hours over the next 2 weeks.
Are you up for this challenge ?? Can you last for the duration? On your mark, get set-- GO!
Oh dear. Well, this is going to be hard, but definitely doable - recently neither my current nor my old phone was working properly, so I was switching between them in frustration. I'm up for it... I'm up for most things that don't involve snakes or heights!
Cell Phones
I do not have one
Don't know how I can live and breathe
Without one.
In the métro pretty much every single traveller has one
Holds one to his-her ear
Or has eyes glued to one
Watching a movie, playing a game, looking at the latest trend in clothes, jewelry, fashion
Or Blah-Blah-Blah-ing on the phone
You have to wonder how people lived and communicated before the gizmos.
But then we are a long way from the semaphore days.
Don't know how I can live and breathe
Without one.
In the métro pretty much every single traveller has one
Holds one to his-her ear
Or has eyes glued to one
Watching a movie, playing a game, looking at the latest trend in clothes, jewelry, fashion
Or Blah-Blah-Blah-ing on the phone
You have to wonder how people lived and communicated before the gizmos.
But then we are a long way from the semaphore days.
Written by robert43041
(Viking)
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Phone off
had my phone
with me
off for a day
like me
off for a day
I had the phone
I didn't have his hits
I didn't have his functions
I haven't heard from anyone
they were all off
like me
for one day
I was happy
and off
for one day
I was quieter
than on other days
I've been more disconnected
than on other days
wrote more poetry
than on other days
more poetry off
off for a day.
PAR
Written by PAR
(PAULO ACACIO RAMOS)
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Mod addiction
The internet is my addiction
It's my cocaine, in joy and pain
I stick its needles into my head
It's my mania, my marijuana
without it I'm a restless iguana
24 hrs without it would be too hard
I'm caught fast in this world wide web
A social butterfly stuck in its web
I mean binge watching reels and reading,
on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube
anything that piques my interest ,
It all reels me in, clickbaits and I bite the byte
The algorithm has picked up my preferences
so feeds my eyes what I want to see
Yet I need to stroll out more and scroll less
for sedentary lives are not healthy.
I tried other things, painted and planted flowers
Yet at the end of the day I missed it like nicotine
over my cup of coffee, with my feet up
I needed to connect online, even WhatsApp.
I just can't imagine going off all internet
cold turkey, oh can't quit cold turkey.
Don't even want to taper off this drug.
Real bear hugs replaced by virtual hugs.
Tis a pity, addiction is addiction.
Hope to rehabilitate in heaven.
It's my cocaine, in joy and pain
I stick its needles into my head
It's my mania, my marijuana
without it I'm a restless iguana
24 hrs without it would be too hard
I'm caught fast in this world wide web
A social butterfly stuck in its web
I mean binge watching reels and reading,
on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube
anything that piques my interest ,
It all reels me in, clickbaits and I bite the byte
The algorithm has picked up my preferences
so feeds my eyes what I want to see
Yet I need to stroll out more and scroll less
for sedentary lives are not healthy.
I tried other things, painted and planted flowers
Yet at the end of the day I missed it like nicotine
over my cup of coffee, with my feet up
I needed to connect online, even WhatsApp.
I just can't imagine going off all internet
cold turkey, oh can't quit cold turkey.
Don't even want to taper off this drug.
Real bear hugs replaced by virtual hugs.
Tis a pity, addiction is addiction.
Hope to rehabilitate in heaven.
Written by Zaynab_kamoonpury
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I remember encountering a similar experience when my phone broke. It was cool because no one was calling you, no one was bothering you, and in case anyone had questions about why I wasn't picking up the phone, I all had the "phone is broken" answer. That's how I went for about a month, but I ended up buying myself a new phone and also changing my number. I switched it to a VoIP number from https://www.mightycall.com/ because it interested me with its business-focused functionality.
