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(Lonesome twitterer sitting on road-side wired network)
#Hashtagged Lives of #SocialMedia Junkies
This life full of hash tags
Our fragile life support
These jumbled networks on the net
Too widespread, too shallow yet
These fluctuating statistical dips
Ego-boosting followers and likers
These spheres in the blogosphere
Going everywhere, reaching where?
This highly connected disconnect
Surmounts isolation, then rejects
We, the wirelessly wired, the restfully tired
Our sleepless sleeps, our aimless aims
Where are we all going hand-in-hand
Riding this media horse, towards what end??
© 2015 Alka Girdhar
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The lonesome twittering Crested Pigeon, that I pictured from many angles, is commonly found in Australia. It is often solitary and makes distinct whistling calls and hooting sounds, to draw attention of others like him.
My poem and the lonely pigeon convey one aspect of social media – that it has connected us all like never before and yet disconnected us from the real world…a bitter reality we find hard to digest.
On the other hand, without media I wouldn’t have been able to share this post with you.
Connected
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