Digital Smiles

by E. Hughes

E. Hughes releases her final book of poetry, Digital Smiles (February 2024). Digital Smiles is written in both rhyme and free verse. The themes in Digital Smiles offers observations and sometimes criticism of society, how human beings engage each other on social media, the importance of time, death, and our responsibility to the humanity of others.



Disinformation by E. Hughes



Disinformation

is information of a most insidious kind.

It disguises itself as truth

to render us blind.

It preys on our fears

plants itself in our minds

rinse and repeat

two thousand and twenty times.



It provokes us to anger,

sowing distrust

spurring us to acts

of wanton bloodlust.



It is not what we seek, but often what we find.



Disinformation

is information of a most insidious kind.



An Inconvenient Sacrifice

 

 

Someone told us

about a disease

that spread itself

through a gentle breeze

or sometimes a cough

or even a sneeze...

and enters the lungs

through the air we breathe

left us yearning for loved ones

and much bereaved.

For some it left them

much aggrieved,

so we hung our heads,

 and pretended it left

as it choked, grabbed

and stole our breaths.

The rich gets richer

the dead gets deader

we sacrificed little

to make it all better

An inconvenient sacrifice

let us hope it fades

until it drags us

into unmarked graves.

52 pages, Paperback

Published February 14, 2024

About the author

E. Hughes is a metaphysicist, poet, and author of over twenty-years, and an Eric Hoffer Award winner, with over twenty published works in multiple genres, from nonfiction, fiction, and children's books. Her recent publications include several philosophical works such as, The Absence of Reality: Aphorisms and Observations on the Nature of Reality and Existence, Reality Unbound: The Digital Mind and the Nature of Reality (for which she won an Eric Hoffer Award). Hughes is also the author of Space, Time, and Loneliness (2024), a poetry chapbook that explores life, death, love, human isolation, solitude, and loneliness across the vast landscape of time and space, Time and the Multi-Universe: A philosophy of time and time travel (2022), which explores the meaning of time and the possibility of time travel, Beyond the Plain (poetry) the Penelope Children's books, among other fiction and nonfiction titles.

Reviews

[A.J. Hughes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very thoughtful and insighting poems

E Hughes' poems are very insightful. The poems range from political views to the problems with our digital world. How easily a differing opinion can lead to you being attacked by angry mobs of people who don't actually care about the issues. Only to feel morally superior to others. That's my take anyways.

My favorite poem was "I was never here."

Definitely recommend if you want something that's critical but beautifully told about our society.