Oct 4, 2015 Original Poetry, Writing 201

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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