They arrived monthlySome in plastic sleeves
Some for the world to see
Waited patiently on bedside stands,
Hoping to be fingered by eager readers.
Serious covers indicated professional journals
Compelling projects, crafts, cooking covered magazines
Curtains, cookies, candy, cookwares, clothes filled catalogs.
Now they fly through cyberspace,
Shorter, smarter, faster, without fanfare.
We scan them on phones, tablets
Catching glimpses of our profession
Our hobbies and our dreams
While gulping coffee
While running the treadmill
Concise, focused.
Emailed, Twitter fed,Faster and faster
Like the world in which we live.
So much news,
So many ideas,
So me!
Slices, so to speak, of my life!
8 comments:
An interesting noticing and capture of the changing landscape of the information dump we experience daily.
Information comes in many forms. It can bo so overwhelming and overkill. I have worked hard on limiting my info. intake.
Information comes in many forms. It can bo so overwhelming and overkill. I have worked hard on limiting my info. intake.
You poem gets smaller and smaller making it move faster as we seem to do in this world. I do try to carve out some time to read slices. Wish I could read more, though. Such a fun month full of connections and ideas!
Concise, focused.
Emailed, Twitter fed,
Faster and faster
Like the world in which we live.
So true...it's hard to keep up with the speed with which information arrives!
I found myself reading this poem faster and faster as I went down the page. The information overload is overwhelming sometimes and I work hard to balance it all. I think all of us do. Enjoy your Sunday. Hopefully you're out of the pathway of the snow heading to Ohio.
I feel the same way! I still have a few print subscriptions, but moved The New Yorker to my Nook. I still don't read as much of it as I'd like, but at least I don't have piles of unread magazines everywhere!
Loved the poem!
So many forms!
So much information.
Am I enough?
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