High Tech Christmas, MMHC 2008 Finalist Options

[JLY]

HIGH TECH CHRISTMAS

Fall's golden sunsets are on temporal hiatus
as amber's faded glow bears a change in status.
It's not yet Thanksgiving, but radio's airwaves
begin to saturate our minds with caroling raves.

We're besieged by retailer's buy-now innuendo,
glossy circulars espouse the latest Nintendo,
along with LCD flat-screens, picture phones,
MP3 players and blackberries with ring tones.

We're hopelessly lost in a maze of technology,
can't find our way, and we offer no apology.
A road atlas was often used to map our jaunts,
a must have now is a GPS that everyone flaunts.

Digital books are hot, printed novels are not.
Camcorders capture silly moments we forgot...
later posted on YouTube without Mom's blessing;
warm hugs tossed for video's window dressing.

Christmas was a time for a family celebration,
now it's an excuse to binge on every sensation.
Traditional melodies slowly smothered by greed,
we've become hi-tech charlatans, please take heed.