The World Wide Web

There’s the observers, the partakers
The stalkers and much more
All operating on the line
Of cyberspace for sure

The contributors, the posters
The ones who sit and read
All wrapped in social networking
A new sort that we breed

The bloggers and the web masters
The programmers; the rest
All living in the modern world
That shares a common nest

The nest or is that really web
World wide community
The question then remains to know
Which sort are you and me?

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Search Engines

Yahoo, Google, Chrome and Bing
They all just do the same old thing
To search, to find, to list to know
Not forgetting old DuckDuck Go
Search Engines praying on our mind
To lift the blinkers; quench mankind’s
Endless quest to find out much more
In ether banks of data raw
To store, to file, retrieve and make
Our lives enriched; but what’s at stake?

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Words

There is a propensity nowadays
For everyone to say whatever they feel
Whether in e-mail, on facebook or by SMS
They will author their opinions and appeals

And on twitter they’ll tweet nearly everything
From the weather to just what they perceive
Without consideration for their reading recipient
Or a care for how it may be conceived

But meet in the high street or playground
Or work place or local café
And a lot of that digital venting
Will be replaced with cordiality per se

So in our online discussions
In text and written messages beware
And chose your words with compassion
So that they won’t smart, maim or impair

And think what is said before speaking
Consider how the words will be felt
But most of all think from the depth of your heart
How your words are handled and dealt

For careful words are worth every letter
They can be kind and easy to speak
But their echoes will be truly endless
So make them Uplifting – inspiring – unique!

 

Based on Mother Theresa’s famous quote “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”