Loneliness is a Failed Log-On

by Larry Chamberlin   May 13, 2014


However often I recycle the screen
it takes me nowhere except the same
blue message of defeat:
"Sorry, www.Poems-and-Quotes.com
cannot be resolved at this time."

Where are those congenial people
so anxious to disagree about all
even whether they disagree or not?
Why cannot I reach the beautiful ones
so caught up in their gloom and doom?

I need my fix of momentous thoughts
and queries into the essence of being;
I want to read their innermost dreams
and smile as they scribble in crayon
their silliest assertions of life.

Give me back my P-n-Q and now!
Why does Janis abandon us all
to the server-name-not-found hell
that has plagued my soul for nigh
on these past two weeks - enough!

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  • 9 years ago

    by Dancing Rivers

    I wasn't going to add this, but reading some of the reviews has made me feel a little more brave, enough to say that, your poem is so heartfelt, yet in some ways there's a touch of the comical and dramatic.I've only been on this site for about a week but I can relate so well to the sense of comical abandonment felt when I can't get onto the site, it's sd though the world has ended because there's no poetic ecstasy for me to consume, this site has become my home, my world and my incurable addiction, so while I'm writing this review,I just want to say that whomever it was that created this awesome site,I owe you my life :-P

  • 9 years ago

    by Dancing Rivers

    This is a really cool piece,I love how you've used a universal (ok not universal, but really big network problem) :-) as the inspiration for a poem, you describe the online poets so magnificently "...momentous thoughts and queries into the being...their innermost dreams...their silliest assertions of life" it perfectly describes most poets these days, their "gloom and doom"being the inspiration for some wonderful (and not so wonderful) pieces, well done :-)

  • 9 years ago

    by Darren

    I have given this 4 points because of the wit in this. I don't for one second buy into the claim that this is a sad poem. It reads to me as quite 'tongue in cheek' and I feel the writer has led those that have commented on sadness right up the garden path.

    It almost had me until this;
    'and smile as they scribble in crayon
    their silliest assertions of life.'

    Then I re-read the piece hunting for any evidence of fear, fear that the site would never return, fear that those that refuse to use facebook would be lost forever. But there was no fear. Fear equals sadness, so where is the sadness?
    But as a comical piece or even a nature piece!! it works.
    So here is my 4 points.

  • 9 years ago

    by Darren

    Congrats on the win Larry
    I agree with the judge that said this is not sad, I can see some comedy value in it.

  • 9 years ago

    by ah satan 666

    Congrats on the win :)

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