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
Anonymous
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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!
Anonymous
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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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Anonymous
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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.
