Poetics & Mag 180 — Unplugged

The challenge, having begun three hours earlier,

(that task being to go unplugged for one full day)

invigorated many of those who decided to try.

They set upon the hours ahead with confidence

and ideas aplenty for ways to fill up their time.

Games of all kinds topped their lists,

followed by activities in natural settings,

followed by non-activity in unnatural settings...

the point being, when they logged off and

powered down they got off and got down without

needing prompts, pauses, or reset buttons... but

Hank felt no personal power surge, he who had

thought ahead that he might write on paper

with pen in hand, then when nothing came he

tried a pen in each hand to see what might come.

What became of Hank as he sank to new lows,

realizing he was not an unplugged sort; did he

abort the challenge or find in the day new highs?

It was the latter, you see, as in the course of

one day he conquered his slump, found reinvention

by way of those pens in his hands, and appointed

himself the Chairman of Doodle before honoring

his success with high fives and a solid fist bump.

Written for dVerse Poets Pub Poetics, where Hobgoblin2011's prompt is Unplugged. I haven't been unplugged, but have not blogged for one month (and this post shows it!) so the prompt had special appeal for me. The prompt is for us to write a poem having something to do with shutting off the technology that drives us through our days. Hobgoblin2011 actually did it for one month! Check the link to read his impressions.
    -ALSO-
Written for The Mag: Mag 180 that inspired with the above image prompt

(Drawing Hands, 1948 by M. C. Escher).

.