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Yore Kidding Me

frisends

Greeting your neighbor

used to involve

a wave of the hand

and pat of their dog

a quick game of Frisbee

or shared trip to shop

a compliment paid

for a gardening job.

But these days

the neighbors

are harder to know,

>ears plugged for sound<

<head wired to nodes>

the head nod–

*a spasm*

the grin

  a gum show  😀

eyes glued to digits

smart phone aglow

and sure, these progressions

have google to boast,

but I prefer contact

without a web host,

as tangible presence

beats giggle/bite ghost

the hearts interacting

not keypunched,

♥ ↔ ♥

but gold.

©Karen Robiscoe

daily prompt: obsolete

Shore-brake

She waded at a silent shore,

testing brink of now & then

–and whispered wish for sands before

 

and missing him a life or more

beyond the shoals of why & when,

She waded at a silent shore

 

as sirens will a sea implore,

on weighted buoy of hope & yen

–and whispered wish for sands before

 

that any tide, or swearing for

could e’re undo, nor change amend,

She waded at a silent shore

 

impelled to seek by deepest core,

confusing, fixed phenomenon

–and whispered wish for sands before

 

for beacon lost atop a moor

that trumped all start & stayed all end

She waded at a silent shore

–and whispered wish for sands before…

©Karen Robiscoe

daily prompt: That’s Amore