Tangibles
That which we can hold
Say it’s real
For so long
Slipping through my fingers
Pieces of energy
Falling away
Through cracks in screens
Posted
And rarely seen
By me at least
For ages
Words swallowed
Consumed
Scrolled past
Pictures zoomed
Pieces of space garbage
Adding to billions
Of space garbage
Swirling around in the internet
Nothing in there is real
“In there” doesn’t exist
Yet it does
Accessed by humans everyday
In ways
Which make a dog frown
As she watches her owner
Stare at a screen
What does any of it even mean?
People becoming faker and faker
Nothing reliable
Fragile egos grow flimsy
Cattle truck thinking
Over and over
Regurgitated thinking
Creating pathways to nowhere
Real
Tangible
Sky above
Earth below
An instant photo printing
I watch it develop
Thinking
Now this
This I can hold onto
I love this 🙂
Thanks 😊
This is a Tangible piece, Kate. 💙
Ha! Must be all the time spent on “the outside” Elle, catching up on reading my faves on WordPress now 😊
A powerful piece!! Hope that you and yours are well!
Hi Colin, very well thanks, we’ve had a minor flurry over a breakout of Covid in the state and they have locked down areas – we might be overly dramatic in Australia but I don’t mind that as we have suffered less than other countries with the Covid curse and it probably has a lot to do with micro management and over reaction. I’ve been spending a lot of time offline hence no blog posts just lots of scattered bits of paper and phone notes and journal entries. Getting back to it slowly and catching up with others as well. Hope you guys are okay over there too.
That is good to hear! Ha, as many as a thousand scattered bit of paper perhaps? 😉 (Yeah, I known … groan! but couldn’t resist it)
Stay well and stay safe! 🙂
I love how you equate cyber-litter to space junk. Such an apt comparison. Does the internet have a finite storage capacity? In 2032, will we need to perform a purge before it all crashes down on us? One thing on the internet that is 100% real is the bits of soul we bloggers pour onto the screen. I know this is a small percentage of the content, but when I stumble onto a blog after googling something, I’m always pleased.
Exactly right Jeff – blogging is the only internet medium I I find authentic and real, depending of course who we read. I really enjoy bloggers which is why even with my scepticism of social media, I return to the blog.