rogerinblueongray

rogerinblueongray

Jan 15, 2025

Alexa - a new poem - revised

 ALEXA

Alexa, what time is it

5:05 am

To early to get up―impossible to sleep

I turn on a TV

The News, Create, Roadkill, Turner

I can’t always tell programs from commercials

 

Alexa, what time is it

9:05 am

I missed Bob Ross

No painting today

 

Alexa turn on the bedroom light

Out of bed

I brush and pee

Check my weight

 

Alexa is playing the radio in the kitchen

Alexa turn off the radio

I turn the lights on and the TV

Check the refrigerator

I get coffee and leave the lights on

 

In my office, I turn on my computer

Alexa, play some music for me

Work eludes me

I play today’s NY Times Games

My e-mails can wait

Restless

I roam from room to room

 

Alexa follows me

Playing different music in each room

The house is empty

In quiet, there is no peace, no solitude

Only loneliness

Alexa play something for me

Jan 12, 2025

WHAT DO YOU SEE - poem on 1 12 2025

 

WHAT DO YOU SEE

 

Dark warrior, African prince

What do you see

Your brown eyes so clouded

And filled with tears

Is it the death of a culture

Is it a past scared by violence and hatred

White colonials, bigotry, slavery and apartheid

Or is it the modern world

Unimagined possibilities

But an uncertain future

Perhaps it is all of these and more

 

 

 

 

Jan 8, 2025

Status in the natural world - a poem 1 8 2025

 

status in the natural world

Eagles, hawks, falcons

Killer whales, sharks, barracuda

Crocodiles, pythons, dragons

Lions, tigers, leopards

Polar bears, grizzly bears, wolves

What is it we feel about them

It isn’t fear

We admire them

First order carnivores

Apex predators

Ten thousand years ago

We were part of the club

Now we stand apart

Our brains and our technology

Has made us

Super predators

Yet we cannot soar with an eagle

Nor swim with a shark

We don’t see in the dark

And the only scent we smell

Is the stink of our garbage, and

The rot of our status in the natural world