In an age of instant gratification...


10 Second Poems




Everything's a
10 second fix,
Nowadays.
Facebook,
Twitter,
What are you doing
Right now?

10 seconds
And you are smiling
At old photographs.

10 seconds
And you are laughing
With your friends.

10 seconds
And you are
There in Hong Kong.

We stride oceans
In 10 wide seconds.

Span the world,
Span our histories,
Span our family
In ten seconds.

In an instant,
Facebook, brought me
The beautiful, doe eyes
Of my ex,
Smiling benevolently
Out of his page,
No hint
Of the bastard
He really was.

10 second sex,
10 second orgasms,
All free on
Our Web.
And now
I write
10 second poems.






Poetry by Esti D-G The PoetBay support member heart!
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Written on 2009-05-23 at 01:32

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Bonyo Buogha
Our I-want-it-10-seconds-ago generation well defined; couldn't be better put.
2011-05-31


Editorial Team The PoetBay support member heart!
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2011-05-28


Tom Farrell
Powerfully delightful and ever so true! and now with poetbay we get to do it with rhyme and meter or cadenced verse!
2009-06-18


Elle The PoetBay support member heart!
people want it now, now, now - yet a 10 second poem from you is worth so much more than a twitter or a facebook - or the face of a person you wouldn't want to know again :-)

Elle x
2009-05-23


melanie sue
In an age of instant gratification, this is no doubt, the perfect poem. Well done, my friend. :)
2009-05-23


penfold18
Excellent brought a smile be it a short one.
2009-05-23


Stan Cooper The PoetBay support member heart!
Esti...your 10 seconds poem couldn't be more gratifying

xxx Stan
2009-05-23


Bob
It's the Andy Warhol syndrom expanded and fulfilled on a shorter scale, it is about the longing to be seen, heard etc.
I like your sharp style fast moving.
2009-05-23


Rob Graber
This is a really cool and edgy write!
2009-05-23