E-World

                         

              

1)        We live like distant impalpable shades

            Beyond warm touch like souls in Hades

            Our spoken skills we gradually lost

            To speak from heart, a thing of past.

2)        We live in virtual world of magic tools

            Tilting with shadows like civilized fools ;

            Our lives controlled by T.Vs, Pads and Mobiles

            We need not move but click with style.

3)         To make up our failing power of speech

             Queer signs and symbols within our reach;

             Our technical jargon in jig jag ways

             We pride ourselves in innovative maze.

4)         Due praise to wonders of magic veil

             We can’t but commend with swelling zeal;

             To see, to hear, to react in various ways

             Crossing the bounds of time and space.

5)         Saving our time, our toil and hard-earned pounds

             Is this not the greatest marvel found?

             With lightning speed like Ariel in legends

             We can communicate with all our friends.

6)         And yet we lack the throbbing human touch

             We let ourselves into this tempting lurch;    

             We live like floating shadows on the screen    

             Bereft of human touch like ghosts dim seen.

7)         Like dreamy figures we flit, we chat and go

             Throwing some symbols with ostentatious show;

             Are we computerized within our hearts?

             Sending signals like creatures from unknown chart.

8)         This E-world made us live like showy dolls

             Can networking links catch our bosom’s calls?

             Our world, a cute, smart and Circean device

          No place for touch, warm hugs and lively human ties.

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Ref : Hades = Abode of the dead in Greek mythology

         Impalpable= unable to be felt by touch

        Ariel    = a merry spirit in Shakespeare's play "The            Tempest" known for his swiftness and miracles. 

        Ostentatious  =  showy display

        Circean = pertaining to Circe, a mythological                       enchantress who tempts people with her music and             changed them into animals. Here it means very                   tempting and dangerously attractive.

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18th February, 2017               Somaseshu Gutala