Talking About What We Do With What We Touch or What It Does With Us

PAD Challenge Day 10;Today is a Tuesday, which means it’s a Two-for-Tuesday prompt day.

For today’s prompt, here are your two options:

1. Write a Technology Poem.
2. Write an Anti-Technology Poem.

1.

Over-indulgence in any Thing

Results in adverse side-effects

A Thing is not good or evil, child

But becomes what we do with it

Because we are born, creatures of choice

We must learn to master our loves

And to say ‘no’ with resolute voice

Or ‘loves’ in turn will master us

…for we are all prone to some sort of temptation

Be it phones or many a sundry vice

We must learn the art of moderation

Or be prepared to pay the price

© Janet Martin

 2.

She scrolls through 

pictures,

cartoons,

vines,

ads

and misses the life

She could have had

***

 

Smart phones

have the impetus

to strip the 

smart'

right out of us

***

"Look mommy, 

look at me",

cried the wee girl

on her bike

as mommy scanned

the Thing in her hand

and clicked another

'like'

***

Technology, 

for all its worth

Ought not replace the green

of Life; 
the thing that happens

Anywhere but on a screen 

Janet~