Lynda deGreif

July 2010 issue

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, DID YOU KNOW?

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Please hold…we will be right with you

I’m sorry you were holding for so long…please hold

Yes, thank you for holding…oh, I am sorry,

I don’t handle that question, I’ll transfer you.

You have reached the customer service line,

If you have a problem with your service press 1

If you have a problem with your customer press 2

If you have a problem with this message, please hang up and call…

Hi, I can’t answer the phone right now

I am either away from my desk,

I am on another call or

I have been fired for never calling anyone back.

We all are sitting here, phone in hand

Talking as we are sipping coffee

Talking as we drive,

Talking in a movie or concert

Talking apparently just to survive.

Dear Alexander Graham Bell, did you ever imagine

Your invention that opened communication

Would be the death of interaction?

April 2010 Issue

YOU

© Lynda deGreif

A fresh page

Blank and calling

For ink or pen

Color or shade

A familiar face

Kind eyes and smile

Looking at you

Happy and sad

A bit of truth

To be told or kept

Investigating deeply

Falsehoods shed

And all of tomorrow

You keep for me

To share willingly

Passions deep.

SPRING

© Lynda deGreif

The time has changed.

We’ve lost an hour.

Spring has arrived.

Here come the flowers!

January 2010 Issue

HAITI

© Lynda deGreif

A rumble, a tumble, a heart beating fast

Shaken, disrupted, fear

Time stood still for seconds

And life changed directions

The rubble, the sorrow, lost in fright

Darkness, lonely, solitude

Hope was there beyond

When life changed directions

A Mother, A priest, a daughter in college

Waiting, calling, praying

The city stands together

As life changed directions.