Worth

03 Feb 2016

seuratski
First I'd like to explain the structure of the poem. I took it upon myself to write a poem consisting of a single sentence, that is grammatically correct and adheres to proper sentence structure, but can be broken up into a minimum of 14 lines. This is my result.

Worth

What words hide within the pixels of my photograph,
unveiled momentarily upon the screen 
of a nameless admirer posturing at her 
desk, peering into the modern-day 
shop at home flea market 
the internet has become by joining the world 
together one room to the next across 
wires webbing the globe, and waves that 
clearly fly to satellites or back;
the carrier pigeons of 2016 knowing only 
their one path towards their homes, 
concealing messages inside licked lips and bated hopes because 
a keyboard provides the keystrokes to speak without a voice, 
while love sneaks in through the eyes.

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seuratski

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task ...

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