I gotta take a selfieWith every meal I cookPost it up on FacebookFor all my friends to look Looks yummy Shari….. Cool tat you’re wearing….. “It feels like life isn’t real anymoreunless you’ve photographed and shared it” (Human behaviour in the digital age) Don MatthewsJune 2021
Tag Archives: poetry
Internet
The internet is wonderfulAn information roadBut times I get to screaming pointFrom all the overload Do you?….. Don MatthewsJune 2021
Stan Fixes a Problem
I’ve got a little problemI need to get up, fixFunny? no-one buys my fishEach time I get up, fix…. Am I missing something?…… Don MatthewsJune 2021
Spider Ballooning
The rain can down in bucketsThe ground got sodden wetSpiders in their millionsCame out and spun a net They spun their webs above the groundUntil below dried outYoung ones safely housed and fedSurvival it’s about If they stayed on the ground they would drownWhile lasting only a few days, it can stretch over100’s of kilometresContinue reading “Spider Ballooning”
Dangling
What’s he doing up there mummyDangling in the sky?Don’t know my pet, will go and askGo and ask him why…. He says he’s practising for the circus…….. Ooooh….. Thankyou mummy……. Don MatthewsJune 2021
Olympics Now Transferred to Australia
Olympics have now been transferredDownunder (where it’s Covid-free)Japan’s become way far too riskyOlympics now here they will be Don MatthewsJune 2021
Vinyl Addiction Causes a Problem
He went on a trip collecting vinylFilled up his case then when finOn returning to Australia, the customsSaid sorry, we can’t let you in Adelaide Hills Hood Matt Lambert came home with a suitcase full of 70’s vinyl records. They wouldn’t let him in as they had detected traces of cocaine. Turns out the recordsContinue reading “Vinyl Addiction Causes a Problem”
Beachbound
I’m feeling laid-back, fancy-freeAm headed for the beachHandles (used to get me there)Safely within reach…. Don MatthewsJune 2021
We Are Cultured Down Here in Australia
Down here in OrstraliaWe are a cultured lotStradivarius violinsAll of us have got Go Einstein….. Only 650 Stradivarius remain in the world of which 600 now reside in Australia lovingly played by many of our young Einsteins….. Don MatthewsJune 2021
When Social Media Becomes More Important
Written about a true experience witnessed by someone else I saw a man on rooftopsRunning endlesslyMentally in troubleObvious to see I saw adults with IphonesRecording what they’d seenFor social media uploadTo friends (all very keen) Where are we headed? Don MatthewsJune 2021
Flippant, Comic, and Serious 