You'll also notice an interspersal of Yiddish and Sanskrit. Here I issue my own poetic licence.
Draft- Please do not read and catch cold
Internet verisimilitude and cathexis
Can take you hopping and popping throughout the global online nexus
Multimedia, video a search engine query
Transfers vibration with little tarry
Friendship at first can be temporarily although ersatz effective
Interactions can invoke several of the 10 commandments, let alone the prime directive
The true Self may be omniscient, omnipresent, through the light of the Lord
But can the same be said of the monitor and keyboard ?
Use Sechel and avoid the invective
Consciousness can travel orthogonally, in simultaneous multi vector
Geographically diverse images, webcams, videos, almost instantly over to any Terran sector
Imagination may easily disperse
To the far regions of the local universe
Cyber communication, oh so speedy
Can traverse defense mechanisms of beings oh so needy
For expression and communication, love and caring
Sometimes our hearts bleed for sharing
Problem is it may be all the rage
Not only does the cyber surfer need to be aware of age, but really act their age
Be ethically and morally responsible before in any conversation you engage
Health and lifestyle may be nutritious
But bloggery and gossip is often delicious
We need to go from a little darkness to a bit more light
In the current internet reiteration night or day
Nothing these days is that hidden or secret, wrong or right
Try not to slip on slime, or get soiled with schmootz – do this sans delay
Otherwise there might be a bit of karma to pay
So many people to be in touch with you see
How well I can know you if even you hardly know me
No matter how your mind and societal defenses may be affected
Ultimately through the divine spark know it or nor we’re connected
I knew you once do you remember me
Content and interrelationships can be rather sophisticated, at least…they seem to be
The numbers may make you pale
If one considers the number of people we connect to via IM and e-mail
Spatial temporal scintillation, our insatiable imaginations seek, knowledge, news, entertainment and thrills without resting
As well as projective desires less reality testing
There’s all this drama, but it’s a one way Samyama
Are you now ready to share your thoughts and experiences with your papa or mama ?
E-mail and the chat room
These days it’s a more evolved verbal/texting gaming form of doom
Your mind may be in a cyberspatial stew
But in a sense the sense object can communicate subtly back to you
Be careful of your wishes, and these you should carefully edit
So as not to give free ranging wings to your cards of bondage by credit
Don’t feel how can I live without this, and seem bereft
Watch out for viruses and spyware, that can lead to identity theft
Those scammers and phishers
Are really little pishers
Set up mail rules and filters, delete those attachments, graphics…and kaboom
Let all the cyber goniffs gay cocken auf in yum
Infatuation and attraction, verisimilitudinal projection oh heavenly distraction…in alienation and loneliness such things sweetly come back to you
In the cosmic dance, divine play of Lila, our vritti’s create such a brew
Mind is far from the here and now
So many Samskaras and new seeds it needs to sow
It’s often quite fun to dream and fantasize, to be in denial and rationalization for a while
And even after your cyber session and physical removal
Your monitor beckons and offers that tempting tacit approval
Not just love, but these days friendship is such a proposition so tenuous
You kind have got to watch out for intentions and acts that turn out disingenuous
In the mid 90’s I could say with glee
E-mailing a stranger could result in such a nice camaraderie
Then with increasing popularity the firewalls, filters, voicemail evolved to their present level and came up, and presented new challenges for interrelationships and sales…cold calling often is masochistic frustration in every pore
But if you use the phone and e-mail as a tool, there’s occasional elation
Of such rewards, I often wish there were more
While artistic endeavors are inspiring
Coldness, rejection is still a bit frustrating if not tiring
Challenges, however fuel ones creative fire
Nuances in language and marketing never fail to inspire
We all like to play till the proverbial end of the day
Even for the distant and aloof
Existence in our physical form along with all the knowledge goes poof!
But a little wisdom and divine knowledge, gracefully acquired along life’s path may show you a way
In this conundrum of joy and travail, called life’s game
Whether one seeks, fame, fortune, recognition, power, knowledge, in the end it’s really not the same
Health needs to balance wealth, caring, warmth, and sharing are fine
Try not to be the type that buries the elderly before their time, and if the same happens to you, you may have made your own bed and be the one to blame
True friendship, camaraderie, and love are sadly enough exceedingly rare, since defense mechanisms are more common shown if not already known
Here’s a hint, it will help overcome reticence and fear
When you’re with a kindred spirit, real friend, and most luckily your love…time will disappear
Clarity will over take delusion
Eternity will overtake time, which in itself is, in the right context and setting of course, an illusion
( Hadn’t love better be singular at the time ? If it’s Cingular we might really be in trouble ) J)
Cathexis is after all a vibration
Mutually it can overcome alienation
No matter how the unrestrained team of horses present in our mind may engage in their daily trots
Beware that unrequited desires, food, drinking, substances, or over indulgences can cause one to Plotz.
Latinos have a solution that has a rather far reach
After dancing, partying , feasting all weekend
Monday morning retire, recuperate, and go read my poetry on the nearest beach.
It’s not that I’m trying to be literary or flaunting my talent as a poet
If you have read this far you might have an inkling or you might already even know it J
Do I take myself seriously in my poetry or art
It may set us a little less further apart
After all good intellectual interaction, and discussion is what we truly seek
I am pleased to have shared my thoughts and given my reader a little peek.
Copyright Shel Stein 2006
Notes:
From Yiddish -
Sechel= wisdom, common sense
Schmootz – various and sundry qualities or gradations of dirt – humorous schmootz can make for a good joke
Plotz= explode figuratively, can refer to ether embarrassment or overeating
pishers=pissers; goniffs=thieves;yum=body of water as in lake , ocean, or river
From Sanskrit -
Samyama = Deep and intense concentration and focus. Leading to knowledge intuition and understanding from Sanskrit
Vritti refers to the thought process and modification of mind; Samaskara’s are residual seeds in the mind from past actions, even lives; Lila- perhaps the cosmic macro chasm of human interaction and existence.
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