#smartphone
Once a tool, now the master
Slowly, unnoticed and ever faster
Networking it's way into our veins
As endorphins flood our brains
When the screens light up
With likes and clicks again
Unwavering attention is the key
Algorithms feeding you what you want to see
Payback points, thumbs up and followers
Are the currency of this digital monster
With the smartphone ever present
That demands your time incessant
And steals your very life's essence
We become prisoners of this device
That infiltrates every walk of life
From the bustling city to the desert sands
A phone is seen in every hand
Networks roll out ever faster
5G and AI are now the taskmasters
Download your films, upload your life
Photos of your dinner, your dog, your wife
For all to see, no privacy
Is this the way it was meant to be?
There is no stopping now the revolution
Of this ever expanding digital evolution
The Advantages are clear
Or so they say
Do not worry that your rights are betrayed
No cash, no keys, just scan your phone
And all about you will be known
The Algorithms never sleep
Nor think nor feel nor talk nor weep
The master buzzes once again
The melody triggering your brain
And to the screen your gaze is drawn
In a game of chess where you are the pawn
The master does not let you sleep
As by your bed your phone you keep
To wake in the night and take a glance
Of something you may have missed by chance
Enjoy the moment is no more
Videos, photos and so much more
To post upon a page somewhere
Or in a forum for to share
Life passes by, we do not notice
So enslaved are we by this hypnosis
Of silicone chips and the new AI
Which is so precocious
Do not think - we have tools for that
As the system Grok and GPT begat
Our brains grow lazy our thoughts reduce
As more trivial things we do pursue
Look at your phone when it tells you why
The human race.......
Will eventually die.
Jan 27
Jan 27, 2026 at 9:10 AM UTC
Phone-diction
Became a conviction
Everyone is bound
Without exception
Phone-world
Offers no restriction
It's a convenient space
No eviction
Phone-time
Equals the injection
Of dopamine
There's no rejection
Phone-crime
Doesn't yet exist
Each year a new smartphone
Seems hard to resist
A phone back in time had this function:
Connection,
These days oftentimes - it's the opposite action,
In search of warmth, love and appreciation,
We lose ourselves in phone-solation.
Apr 28, 2025
Apr 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM UTC
She lived in my inbox,
a constant pulse of memes and midnight thoughts,
fragments of her days in a city I’d never walked
a movie recommendation
a reminder to sleep early
a nudge to wake up and try again.
Even from miles away
she found a way to stay close
weaving herself into my new routine
as if distance was just another setting
to adjust.
Her life moved forward in photos and captions
shared glimpses of places I could only picture
I watched, I listened, I responded
but slowly, the messages thinned,
the spaces between them stretching wider
until silence settled where she used to be.
Yet
even now,
some nights I still hear her voice in my head:
“Go to sleep early”
as if she’s still looking out for me
somewhere beyond the screen.
Mar 3, 2025
Mar 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM UTC
The answer is not on your phone..
So stop staring at it in your zombie zone
There is nothing there to see
Nothing there to help your life feel free
We go from day to day
Looking down, nothing new to say
Lost on the street and in the shops
Blind to nature and blind to clocks
Put that flipping thing away
Stop living in the afray
Look up instead of down
Look forward to life, drop that frown.
Jan 3, 2022
Jan 3, 2022 at 12:05 PM UTC
The smartphone is a portal
to progress and possessional obsession.
To behold all knowledge of the beauty of the human experience within the palm of your hand, yet to also behold;
brilliant tutorials from false idols on how not to live your life,
that captivate and obliterate all free-folks minds.
Ahh yes, freedom-the fickle *****
monkey see
monkey do.
The smartphone has brought us closer than ever before
yet, when this little tablet of infinity shows you only what you want to see
(like a mirror to the soul)
pray you keep keen eyes upon your shadow
for even hugs can crush and families feud and through opinions and tribal captivations
we become more divided.
It has made us spend so much time looking down, that we no longer look up;
For it hurts to stare into the light.
Nobody looks into each others eyes anymore for the same reason.
Oct 3, 2020
Oct 3, 2020 at 5:44 AM UTC
I'm never alone
Not with my thoughts
Not with my dreams
never an excuse to be idle
never alone
I'll always have you
to intrude,
to distract,
to enlighten
shining your light
alerting me
greeting me
never letting me be
a moment alone
Sep 28, 2020
Sep 28, 2020 at 3:23 PM UTC
frightened about addictions--
mine feel far less dark
because they blaze from a white
screen
lower the brightness. i can't
bear to feel my eyes
dissolving like my dull white
scream
Nov 25, 2018
Nov 25, 2018 at 3:30 PM UTC
A silver smartphone
Hides on a silver bedspread
Wise is he who knows
Copyright © 2018 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Aug 27, 2018
Aug 27, 2018 at 1:24 PM UTC
Paused, on the keyboard,
the ticks dissipating,
words, turning to clouds,
clouds of nothingness,
it's all a mess,
confessing my mistake,
reverting paragraphs of apologies,
lost, in life deserted,
the touch which my heart instantly recognized,
was lost again,
the butterflies had already died (in my stomach),
feeling lifeless,
I tried again, and again, and again,
thinking the cursor would reappear,
but..............................................
all did appear,
was my life line ticking low,
till today,
I regret, those words,
I swear to not let my heart, flush them recklessly,
For I don't wish to lose things again,
relentlessly,
Dec 5, 2017
Dec 5, 2017 at 9:25 PM UTC
****** smartphone,
in a trance she always was!
her world never called.
Nov 1, 2017
Nov 1, 2017 at 10:36 AM UTC
smartphone addict, she
tripped, fell and photobombed him;
in his selfie now
Oct 5, 2017
Oct 5, 2017 at 6:52 AM UTC
Hindi ako handa sa biglaan **** pag-alis
Sobra akong nasaktan sa sobrang bilis
Hindi ko akalain, sa tagal ng pinagsamahan natin
Nagawa mo parin akong iwanan at paiyakin
Sep 3, 2017
Sep 3, 2017 at 10:50 AM UTC
I have you in my sight
Time to take that picture
Saving it with your name
So you can look yourself up
Tell me where you are now
I need to know for your safety
Forget about privacy
Everyone's life is becoming an open book
Film all of your surroundings
to give memories more meaning
You look so much more happier
with that shining bright filter on
Slave of the new media
Need to confirm my existence
So please give me your opinion
to make my wasted days count
Conversations made
through meaningless stares at the screen
Real emotions never shown
Only delivered
Have you heard the news?
Why are you ignoring me?
Because everybody else has heard
about the truth of my lies
Mar 7, 2017
Mar 7, 2017 at 5:16 PM UTC
Sara L Russell, 15th January 2016, 00:04
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So yeah this is me and Julie outside H&M;…
trying too hard to look ****
Desperate tarts more like.
We went to Starbucks after that, then the pub,
and then… the rest of the afternoon's a blur. Haha.
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Oh yes and this one's me with Foo Foo,
stupid cat's sitting on top of my presentation.
She can be useless at times but she makes a good hot water bottle
when it's like, really cold? You know? Cats are great for that.
Dead sympathetic too. Good listeners.
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Oh now this is a good one. This is me
with that **** actor off I'm a Celebrity.
He was in… actually I can't remember what he was in?
Really like, **** though? Yet I've only seen him on I'm a Celebrity?
Anyway he was cool with stopping for a selfie. God love him.
(Whoever he is).
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Ahh… this one is me with Julie again. She's such a ******
She's got one of those light up Santa hats on. Daft *****
Never did get one for me. Not that I'd wear one.
I prefer those furry reindeer antlers.
See? There's one of me with antlers on.
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Oh here's one of me and Mum.
Yeah very sad I know. She tries so hard to be cool, bless her.
Embarrassing really. I gave her my old phone and
she still hasn't worked out how to use it.
Takes loads of photos of herself though.
So sad.
Jan 14, 2016
Jan 14, 2016 at 7:12 PM UTC
poking a bubble with the head of a needle without a burst, I drag the sharp end across your skin you said it burns, I was so afraid of what I might feel if i actually let myself free, if only I wasn't so prideful id still be lovable.
Oct 18, 2015
Oct 18, 2015 at 12:59 AM UTC
Phones are like relationships:
You really love them at first, but soon, they just don't do it for you anymore and you want one with better features
Oct 5, 2015
Oct 5, 2015 at 8:28 PM UTC
Oh Language, where hast thou hid thyself?
Thy once-bright spires decline to dust.
The calm, well-reasoned flow of wisdom
a bygone memory. I’ll not trust
these tween-to-twenty-something’s prattle;
endless babble of self-absorption
centered in pleasure-maximizing:
narcissistic thought-abortion.
Dude—they’re SO not app’ed for language
used by dad ten years ago.
I’m totally DONE with their, like, verbiage
They’re all: Smartphone Teenage Show.
It’s just, like, TALKING—without words
in language ghettos; texting proud . . .
Their lack of precision offends my brain—
They ought to be ashamed (out loud).
Vygotsky’s vaunted Z.P.D,
and Bakhtin’s heteroglossic crack
along with Roland Barthe’s pet parrot
Are SO like totally talking smack.
Oct 4, 2015
Oct 4, 2015 at 3:00 PM UTC
Real communication
Has been lost
In the depths
Of the cloud.
True feeling
Is seldom seen-
Now, thoughts
Are shown
Through emojis.
Does anyone feel
The wholesomeness
Of somebody else's
Voice anymore?
The smell of their
Skin, the faces
That they make, or
Simply- their presence.
Conversations are
Much more
Than the words
Typed out on a
Smartphone screen.
People are meant
To actually be
Seen.
Mar 11, 2015
Mar 11, 2015 at 2:07 PM UTC
'Do you want to go to a club?' he asked her.
She nodded and might even have smiled
He couldn't tell from
The gloom of her smartphone.
The club had a band and they played all the night
While she was playing Zombie Fight
The crowd got too crazy, and soon went to rush
While she was playing Candy Crush.
Her boyfriend got bored and went for a look
While she was checking her Facebook
He met a girl and he did the deed
While she was checking her Twitter feed.
She went to find him, looked up at the band
Wanted a member to hold by the hand
But they were all taken by girls who could try
While this girl just looked down and checked Spotify.
On the way home she saw a lady
On a Youtube vid' called 'What you've all paid me.'
The people who watch her all make her life good
Be like her? The girl wished that she could.
Jan 16, 2015
Jan 16, 2015 at 11:50 AM UTC
My family gives me what I need
My homework drains my cup
My friends remain like silent seeds
My smartphone wakes me up
Aug 9, 2014
Aug 9, 2014 at 2:57 AM UTC