<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Life, the Obstacle Course]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[taurusingemini]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com/author/taurusingemini/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Out of Power, a&nbsp;Poem]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;">When your high-tech gadgets stop working, that, is when you are able to, focus on the beauties all around, isn’t it??? Translated…</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>As I Alighted the Bus, My Cell Phone Was Almost Out of Power</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Then, it Went Dead. Followed, by My Laptop, Digital Camera, MP3, Etc., etc., etc.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Magically, Everything Had, Died. And so, I Can, Only Look Out the Window</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>The Light Filled Up the Skies at Dusk</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/ww1.hdnux.com/photos/24/10/60/5278748/3/628x471.jpg" />and this, would be what that looks like, not my photograph&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>There Was, a Cloud Dragon Had a Silvery Sword into Its Body Made by the Jets</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>The Head’s Chopped Off, Becoming a Bloodied Mess</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>The Darkened Clouds Pressed Down onto the Mountains Near &amp; Far</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Closer to the Fields, the Scattered Houses</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/images.travelpod.com/tw_slides/ta00/c9d/b7a/g-looking-out-the-window-of-the-train-gothenburg.jpg" />and this, would be what you would&#8217;ve missed out on&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Smoke Started, Rising Out of the Chimenys</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>That Were, Suspicious with the Power Towers</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>As Guards Standing Tall, Speedily, Falling, Backwards on One Another</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>I Turned My Head</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Caught a Glimpse of the Purple Glow of the Cell Phone</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>From the Passenger Sitting Next to Me</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Well, that break from high-tech didn’t take long, did it? Nope, and this still just shows how many distractions there are in life, how these high-tech gadgets (cell phones, iPads, whatever!!!) can cause us to stop paying attention to the beauties of nature, which is what we should BE focusing more on, but everybody is, lowering her/his head, focusing on, what’s in one’s hands, ooh, a Pokémon!!!</p>
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