Friday, April 19, 2024

I do Want to Say Something!

 

 

I was a celebrity, and for you, divine,

for your every step, I was your spirit,

I was your backbone, I was your home-mate,

and I was your pal of all pals, right!

 

For kitchen-mundane, a diary

the homemaker's diary to scribble the need;

me her helper helps her, then no worry,

and lists the items, she couldn't avoid.

 

Writers vomit the ideas of their self,

and I am there, wherever they go;

winners gain me as gifts and I

lie with them in my new golden garb.

 

Office people, ticket examiners, doctors

and all are there in my counting column,

farm workers and their masters for records,

 assist them and that is solemn.

 

 I with delight, sleep with people

of all kinds and pupils of all schools;

they wanted a good bed for me 

that they got in their apparel. 

 

I slept in serene places for my rest

and now I am thrown at corners,

and in petite spots and 

in dirty bins, I await my last breath.


Alas! My celebrity status vanished,

the computers and phones encroached on 

to my compound and I am far-chased;

I, your PEN, see my adieu forever.

 

10 comments:

  1. Oh, too true. For most of my life myoens were treasures to me. But now, while I still need the occasional biro, I just don't feel the same. It's my devices I can't do without now.

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  2. I like this. The "death" of pens and pencils has been proclaimed many times in the last hundred years. Frank B. Gilbreth, efficiency expert, filled a coffin with pencils and buried it...He died young. His widow and orphans have joined him in the afterlife by now. I still have pencils on my desk. Typewriters didn't "kill" hand writing, computers didn't, and I doubt that stupidphones will either.

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  3. Oh right...Some Blogspots recognize that I'm logged into Google. Some do not. I'm PriscillaKing.

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  4. What a thoroughly delightful ode to the "pen" ... so clever.

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  5. Very sorry beloved pen. May you rest in peace.

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  6. I so appreciate this. I journal every morning with a fountain pen and my first draft of my writings is always in pen. I love my pens (3).

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  7. Good thing that you value the pen. Thank you, Cosmo.

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