Digital Love and Rainbow Tie Dye

I’m a touch screen

You’re the finger

Pushing my buttons

Looking for the right

Kind of entertainment

I’ll do anything for

A like, or a subscribe

You’re a minefield

I’m an eager foot

It’s no good

Unless we click

The truth is

A blank screen

We smear with words

Wrapping our stark

Nakedness into

A tie dye poncho

Wanting to dazzle

Amaze or at least

To get noticed

Only gods may walk

Among us unclothed

Undisguised and unashamed

Only saints may

Dress their lies

In pure white

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Can't trust anyone who appears to be saintly. They put on airs but hold dark secrets...the gods are the ones who are most human.
I come from that tie-dye era...I get this.
Digital was not even thought of...so I got no likes, no subscribers---
but a real touch once in awhile.
Cool piece this is. Very smart writing.
j.

[Laz K.]

Thanks. You sound like cool teacher.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

That is kind of you to say...we do have a pretty time...

[Ted Kniffen]

You have written a piece of brilliance here K. How many of us want to dazzle & amaze and how many have grown beyond that necessity to be noticed?
Your final six lines cry out to be a separate poem. I am impressed.

Good job ... be well ... keep safe.

[Kay/Hayden]

The beginning is so unique and funny! Ive never read a poem before that the character is a touch screen, how did you even Come up with something like this? -Kay

[Laz K.]

Hi there Kay,
We have the same name: you're Kay, and I'm K. :)
Hah, yeah, well, I was thinking about the nature of digital communication. Look at all of us here: we're like AI bots communicating with each other: bits and bytes of information pass between us, but are we still "human"? There's such a separation and filtering of information that it may lead to miscommunication, which takes us back to where we were: being alone.

Thanks for reading, btw! :)

[Lorry]

This made me laugh way more than is healthy, then gave me a moments pause, before that quizzical look that I call question mark eyebrows, as I realised that I am guilty of it, which I only realised when I tutted to myself that I am Not the top writer my unbalanced ego demands.
If you haven't seen it yet, I would heartily recommend an episode of season 3 of black mirror called nosedive. It's about the lengths people go to for likes and "status" and shows there is always a downside too.
Now if you'll excuse me, I gotta get out of this minefield before I lose more bits of me... 💣 🤗

[Laz K.]

Glad it made you smile...laugh out loud, was it? Using irony is always risky, because people might think you actually mean it. That's a risk I'm willing to take, though.

[Lorry]

I wrote a poem once about being alone in a park, sighing at the world's ills, relationships etc, that had the punchline of "But what do I know, I'm only a penguin and I got a very terse review asking why a penguin would talk to a human 🤔
I just put it down to her being a cat person.