New Tech Not Like Old Love
New Tech Not Like Old Love
My love is not an iPhone,
he doesn’t wake me with tinkling bells,
nor list, with distance, shops near home
and what they each might sell.
For love’s a different calling,
my calling’s to be his own–
No new tech’s so enthralling
as a love that lasts lifelong.
My love’s not like an iWatch,
not even an old-time Swatch;
my skin the touchscreen for his touch–
he makes it bing and such–
still, love’s a different calling–
(his calling’s to be my own),
and the love in which we’re falling
we’ll fall into our whole life long.
Oh my love, he is an i-Him
who helps me to be i-Me,
in ways before our union
we never quite could be–
For love’s a different calling,
a call to be each our own–
this love in which we’re falling
together our whole life long.
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Here’s a drafty sort of love poem/love song for Kenia’s prompt on Real Toads to write the “perfect love poem.” (I’ve been singing it to myself, but not in a position to come up with recording.) This is certainly not the “perfect love poem” but I tried to use some of the elements Kenia mentioned as being common to love poems–comparison, obstacles–as well as relatively modern lingo.
This is some number of poem for April, 2015, National Poetry Month–
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ManicDDaily 
April 22, 2015 at 3:49 pm
To think that love and technology can intermingle like that and create an even more intensified touch…! charming… 😀
April 22, 2015 at 4:52 pm
A delight! You certainly managed the contemporary language, lol, to result in a sweet ballad of true love.
April 22, 2015 at 6:36 pm
Steve Jobs aint got nothin’ on you. This is sweet and clever and fun.
April 22, 2015 at 10:07 pm
Sounds like the real deal to me…..I wonder – do young people write and receive romantic hand written love letters any more? or do they get brief acronym messages texted and littered with LOL’s?
April 22, 2015 at 11:40 pm
Wonderful, this is a great song, and I’m glad that technology is not love, the simile of skin and touchscreen is very clever.
April 23, 2015 at 12:04 am
Yes, even Steve Jobs couldn’t create a love match. Love the techie play in this.
April 23, 2015 at 4:36 am
an I-him :). currently waiting at car rental in lovely Newark after a red-eye from the left coast. Going to be working super long hours the next 5 day – wonder if I’ll make the 30… ~
April 23, 2015 at 5:11 am
Ah. That is hard. You are very good at short but short isn’t faster really. But maybe can be kept in your head, swirling.
April 23, 2015 at 4:53 am
Too sweet, Karin. Awwwwww.
April 23, 2015 at 6:23 am
Oh my love, he is an i-Him
who helps me to be i-Me,…… delightful
April 23, 2015 at 12:34 pm
I can almost hear you singing,k–definitely has a cadence to it, and a lot of truth and humor as well. I’m afraid I’m more of an i-diot atm than anything else. ;_)
April 23, 2015 at 12:35 pm
Ha. Well, I had a much quirkier poem that I really liked better, but then got into sentiment somehow, and that took over. Know how you feel for sure. k.
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 1:34 PM, ManicDDaily wrote:
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April 23, 2015 at 12:48 pm
Can I call this adorable? It is!
April 23, 2015 at 1:42 pm
still, love’s a different calling–
(his calling’s to be my own),
and the love in which we’re falling
we’ll fall into our whole life long.
My favourite part 🙂
I read with much concern how the addiction to electronic devices is leading to the breakdown of relationships. Your poem is very much on point, Karin.
April 23, 2015 at 3:51 pm
Best be on watch to what is going on in your watch drawer.
I like the “… my love, he is an i-Him, who helps me to be i-Me.” I-Him and I-Me’s may be the next generation of watches, coming soon.
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