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What Poetry Can Do For You: Do We Disappear With Darkness?

December 18, 2013
By Neal Lynberg BRONZE, Ben Lomond, California
Neal Lynberg BRONZE, Ben Lomond, California
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What Poetry Can Do For You:


Do We Disappear With Darkness?



Poetry has always been something of a place for me.

An anchor to this world.

As I switch off the lights in my room for sleep,


This single illuminated L.E.D., a testimony to electronic

activity, evidence that

this world refused to disappear with darkness.


Populace longing for mainstay--an ostensible connection to

something deeper. For even

the red glow of stand-bye falls victim to unforeseeable outages.


Now, in true lightlessness, deep amongst the thought of

own, this world

We are left to question in various, frantic moans.


So let this digital luminance flicker on, in hope

that a Horizon will

someday dawn of such definite extent & grandeur.


The author's comments:
This poem is my attempt to better understand how the realities of our nature are blending with the digital world we are creating. Humans have used art as a way to better connect with the natural world for as long as language has been around to describe this therapeutic act, however art's immersion into the electronic world is becoming increasingly common. With this comes disapproval--many believe that the digital world is not, what we humans refer to as, 'real'. Although the digital world lacks physical distinction, it is a source of escape and connection with something, and for those who have trouble retreating into a journal or canyon, a video of a cat doing something entertaining on tumblr may just be perfect.

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