Resurrection!

RUBY TUESDAY
http://workofthepoet.blogspot.com/2011/06/ruby-tuesday_20.html

 

RESURRECTION!

For a day,

Maybe for three or four,

They stood there,

One February.

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Delighting my heart and my eyes.

A birthday gift

From a very special daughter.

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They should have lasted forever

In all their crimson

Cheerfulness.

But they didn't get the message!

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They died.

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I could no longer look at them

And think 'I'm a lucky woman!'

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The water grew murky,

The stems grew slimy,

The petals fell.

There was nothing for it but the bin.

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The thrill was over.

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Yet now, through the magic of technology,

The world can see, once again,

What a lucky woman I was!

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And I can say, once more,

'Thank you, Rebecca.'

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TECHNOLOGY
An Acrostic

True, it's brought us gadget toys beyond our wildest dreams!
Everything that can be made is being made it seems!
Clever people keep 'improving life', or so they say.
Happily we grasp at every brand new chance to 'play'.
Now we have the whole world in our grasp with just one click!
Ordinary people are becoming 'wise' and 'slick'.
Letters once were written with such elegance and grace;
(Oh, what we have lost pursuing this, our faster pace!)
Gains are always matched by losses, downsides must exist.
Yes! We've gained an awful lot.
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But should we now desist?
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