Navigating Maya

 

Navigating Maya

Then:

You spend your days toiling with pen and paper

 Digging deep through your memories

 for anything resembling poetry

(You know no one will ever read)

Now:

You’re writing poetry in the sky 

Your words are literally bouncing off satellites

received instantly by anonymous reader in Mumbai

(Now you’re a fish caught in the internet)

Day 14 prompt: Poetry is an ancient art, and one that revisits themes that existed thousands of years ago – love, nature, jealousy. But that doesn’t mean that poets live in a sort of pre-history unaffected by technological advances. Emily Dickinson wrote about trains, and I’m rather charmed by a poem about the “incredible hair” of actors on television. In a more recent example, Becca Klaver’s Manifesto of the Lyric Self draws inspiration from the contemporary drive to document everything in digital photographs. Today, we challenge you to write a poem that similarly bridges (whether smoothly or not) the seeming divide between poetry and technological advances.