Written for Writer's Digest'
April 2020 Poem-a-Day Challenge
Prompt: Write a Future poem
this was shared to:
The Poets and Storytellers United's
Writers' Pantry #31: Here Comes August!
on Sunday, August 2, 2020.
this was shared to:
The Poets and Storytellers United's
Writers' Pantry #31: Here Comes August!
on Sunday, August 2, 2020.
The Future
is a marvelous thing
look at us now
we have the Internet
and remote meetings
The Future
is a brilliant thing
look at it now
so full of inventions
that are so interesting
The Future
is a terrifying thing
look it's here now
and this pandemic
and this pandemic
is not a blessing
Wait...there's a future?
ReplyDeleteWell done.
I'll laugh at your comment so that I don't cry. :)
DeleteLooks as though we have to take the good with the bad...don't be picky now!
ReplyDeleteOh yes, the future has come and it's surely terrifying. But I live in hope. :)
ReplyDeleteThe forking paths of the future! This captures that uncertainty.
ReplyDeleteWe look at all that exists in present tense and can't help but wonder how this will play out in the end.
ReplyDeleteTime keeps changing constantly. We live in hope!
ReplyDeleteThe future is all hands--
ReplyDeletesome for caressing,
so many for slapping.
You have curved a perfect yin yang. Thanks for dropping by my sumie Sunday today
ReplyDeleteMuchđź’–love
I liked the twist also very much !!
ReplyDeleteI'm sure all those who suffered through the great flu epidemic shared many of our feelings, and yet this old world carried on. Hope is in the thought.
ReplyDeleteThis poem reminds me of how difficult it is to keep being hopeful. Fear and uncertainty seem to be stronger. But in your poem, there are 2 stanzas of home and only 1 of fear, so hope wins! :)
ReplyDeleteHow true! But if we had to have this damn pandemic, it's better to have it in the internet age.
ReplyDeleteHang in there--I think the fall and winter will be rocky, but I suspect things will get better after that--Hope can be fleeting sometimes--but patience helps--
ReplyDeleteAgree with Rosemary.. can't imagine isolation in a disconnected world..must have been even worse for them back then.
ReplyDeleteTo embrace the future, we must acknowledge and learn from the past. Let's hope we've learnt from the pandemic. I also agree with Rosemary.
ReplyDeleteHere we are. The future is now. And it's not what we had hoped it would be.
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