Face Ache, Face Ache... Poem by Danny Draper

Face Ache, Face Ache...

Rating: 5.0


Face ache, face ache
On the net,
Who's the most popular 
To post here yet?

What adoration
Can I attract,  
From mediocrity's
Vacuous track?

What viral of strangers
Can I befriend,
And Like, Unlike
Their everything?

What random strings
Of things and stuff,
Can feign an obligatory
L.O.L. response?

Is a hungover rant 
And disconnect,
A way to engender
Long sought respect?

Close range I.pic of face
taken with I.thing at haste,
Uploaded with 
no time to waste.

Like.   Comment.
'Raisin toast pimple',
Link to You lose
Rewards are simple.

Connection to friends
Far, far away,
The isolated and lonely
Are family today.

The world it shrinks
By enmeshed perception 
inundated by mundane,
Inane introspection. 

We write and text
Sitting silently alone,
But never think to
Pick up the phone!

Face ache, face ache
On my wall,
What can I post next,
To be most popular of all?

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Karen Deeks 21 March 2012

A great write of much consideration to consider... A very clever piece which shows the solitude created by a net which closes in yet distances reality and friends..bravo Danny I make you right :)

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Martin O'Neill 21 March 2012

Brilliant. I am often speechless at the inanity of postings that I see from otherwise intelligent, warm human beings.

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Eric Cockrell 22 March 2012

you nailed this one... do we even know how to communicate? food for thought!

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Valerie Dohren 20 March 2012

Hope you`ve made some good contacts on PH, I know I have. Whilst phoning loved ones is always preferred, it has been great for me personally to make some friends through PH which I would not otherwise have done because of distance. We have more opportunity these days to make contact with people we would otherwise never know existed. Good write though, and amusing.

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Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi 21 March 2012

It has become the face ache, the symptom, of too much of monitor viewing. Good thought and well written.

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Captain Cur 14 May 2012

You picked up the breeze in those word sails and brought it home.

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Shadow Girl 04 April 2012

LOL! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! No that wasn't an obligatory one btw! ! ! I really liked that......how ironic! ! ! Good writing and great meaning and rhyme scheme. 'Like'

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Jonathan Maldonado 28 March 2012

Wow... Its sad how much truth this holds 10++++++

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Sara Fielder 26 March 2012

Yes. I'm in complete agreement with you Danny. I was there once upon a time too. I wrote a poem about it called 200 Corpses.

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Wahab Abdul 22 March 2012

his poem is well crafted and well said on a contemporary theme.....i like the poem.

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Danny Draper

Danny Draper

Kiama, New South Wales, Australia
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