Poems About: TELEVISION

How sad to see lives spent
Before a box that has no life
No breath, no song to touch the soul
Just shadows on a flickering screen. read more »

Television is not moving
When it shows us movie
We are moved by actors
And actresses so groovy. read more »

As you watch television tonight
Spare a thought about me somewhere
Between the intervals AND squeeze a thought
About me for that one lingering moment read more »

Images spread across the world,
Television taking control,
Snapshots of life in the Middle East rife,
Bombs in Ireland a long time ago, read more »

A young man with magic abilities
resurrecting people from death
brought back his childhood
sweetheart read more »

(This is a fictional poem)

I hate this damn television that my wife just bought.
When I ask people if I'm intelligent, they say I'm not. read more »

I am bored
An inescapable feeling, too familiar
A multitude, a plethora of ideas
Entertainment, where art thou? read more »

I am as mute as the cathedral, and I
Am dreaming
And all of this is the reason that the snow falls
Across the television: read more »

Being almost television addiction free
Even the Conventions I limited
To the speeches of Obama and McCain
There is the exception of the Charlie Rose show read more »

The television buzzes and pops
and the dishes loom in their piles
while the dog looks up from
her empty water dish, read more »

The television is on, sound just
above a whisper—an incandescent
flickering glow, a campfire manufactured
in Japan. Outside, a handful of stars read more »

I sit in silence with my own blank thoughts
Bored out of my mind my imagination rots
I turned to music, television, the books on my shelf
I gave up, looked up and said to God, 'Humour Me' read more »