Held In Thrall – Six Haiku About Screens
©October 4th, 2015
By Vijaya Sundaram
Silver screens and reels
Pixellated thoughts and dreams
Escape routes abound.
I see you staring
Eyes filled with flickering light
Mirror-self in blue.
Computer lights trap,
And movie-lights release us
We never find sleep.
Wandering in dreams
We forget to sleep, nodding
Endlessly awake.
Sunflowers turn off
Night lingers, laden with sleep
While we type, enthralled.
Screens ensnare us all —
Spiders crawl away in haste
My screen spins my trap.
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