Those Idle days of blissful calm content
Are trampled mercilessly beneath the march of time
We rush to beat the deadlines that won’t relent
Yet long for those sips of sweet summer wine.
The Pressures and pain of increasing demands
The whip crack urgency of the daily grind
Our lives spent chasing those goals of monetary gain
But yearning for those halcyon days left behind.
Cast off those chains and symbols of modern strife
Decry those instruments of mental strain
The self-imposed purgatory of the material life
The shallow need for technology is to blame.
Return those devilish devices of demonic confusion
Those pagers and palmtops and mobile phones
Refuse to be a victim of this Hi-tech revolution
And reclaim the quiet privacy of your homes.
Those dreams of moments spent in rapturous Eden
The yearning for natures longing embrace
These are the goals of our deepest desires
The forsaken destiny of the human race.
Copyright: Kristian Fogarty
Written by Kristian Fogarty 31/03/2011
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2018/12/17/rdp-monday-halcyon/
This is so well written! Love it.
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Thank you, much appreciated. Check out some of the other stuff I’ve written. I’m keen to have feedback. If there is something you didn’t like let me know too.
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I’d be sad if I couldn’t look up answers to questions, or follow a thought journey through the interwebs.
A fantastic bit of writing there Master K😉🌠
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I think technology is OK in moderation but we seem (myself included) to letting our lives revolve around it rather than the other way around. 🙂 Glad you liked my poem 🙂
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You’ve captured the false urgency of modern day tech dominated lifestyle so well.
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Thank you, Sadje. I must say though that during this pandemic, the technology I so decried before has been a lifeline! 🙂
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Yeah, that’s for sure.
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Wow, this is 5-Star! And I resist as much as I can 😉 I have an emergency cell phone (mobile) in the event the power goes out and my landline doesn’t work–but I don’t use it otherwise. I got a tablet–only because the camera is better and less expensive/taxing to get an actual camera and learn to use it, hah! But I don’t use it for anything else–because I work from my laptop, which life in this strange new world demands: everything almost is done online. I remember when I gave up TV for awhile–and read a gazillion books! But that was long before anyone knew what was coming re technology’s advances. Take care–God bless you! 🙂
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Thank you Zelda. I wrote the poem a while ago and the pandemic has rather changed things, technology has been a lifeline to the outside world that otherwise i’m not sure many cou;d have coped with the isolation, myself included. 🙂 God bless you too 🙂
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Yes, we’re all thankful for technology during this crazy time which none of us expected. Still, it can be a task-master 🙂
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Amen! I’m tempted to unleash a magnetic pulse, à la action movie, and disable all these devices!
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That could make a good plot for a story, the twist being, then the pandemic happened and without technology civilization crumbles! I think my views on technology has been tempered slightly by the recent events. I wrote the poem some time ago. 🙂
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