Ode to a Blinking Cursor
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Poem by: Christopher Kush
Oh blinking cursor, how you taunt me
Begging for a poem, essay or short story
Your constant demands for words to devour
A simile or metaphor involving a flower
Your rhythmic flash; a mocking tone
And now my work I must postpone
To satisfy your creative cravings
Your desire for my digital pencil shavings
Back foul beast, accept your defeat
On the battlefield of MS Word we shall meet
A thrust and riposte; cursor vs. hand
With spell check I make my final stand
My grammar and spelling seal your fate
The formatting perfect; it is too late
My poem is finished, your blinking subsides
Saved to the server, in memory it resides
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Haha, I really like the humor that you have going on in your last two poems!
I love that you write about not being able to write, so ironic!
My favorite line is " Your desire for my digital pencil shavings".
Very unique indeed!
& guess what you beat Ms word and totally owned the rhythm and rhyming to this poem!
WELL DONE!
LOL, still laughing a bit...
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Thanks so much for the comments; I think it's about time I start writing some more humourous poems. I love writing them! Can't always be about love, romance or something depressing :p
I think I'm going to devote the rest of the week to writing comical poems.
What an epic battle between the villainous “blinking cursor” and a writer. Indeed, we pray for the day when the cursor shall blink never more, but it seems designed to taunt us with its mocking flashing dance. Huzzah on your victory! A very nice poem and it certainly made me laugh. Next topic “The Blank Page” perhaps - a much bigger more deadly foe…!
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Challenge accepted! Thanks for the comments, I am devoting the rest of the week to writing humourous poems (at least I hope they are humourous). I am really enjoying myself lately; it's about time I switched up my themes and topics, can't be a serious panda all the time :P :)
This poem would go well in a grouping with the other one posted prior to this. You could great a grouping of 3-5 poems based upon the act of writing itself and I think it'd do exceptionally well. If you haven't considered publishing a book of poetry I encourage you to do so. Each poem you write meshes well with all the others, and that's an important quality. They flow together instead of separate bodies. The imagery is great in this, mainly because as a writer we have all been there. That damned curser blinking until final you can silence it by saying everything you need to say and more... then revising a million times (revisions will be the death of me lol).
This is fantastic! Humourous, but so true.
I write my stuff on paper before I type it up, so it's never the blinking cursor that taunts me, it's the words on the digital page that I need to reword and rework to make better.
Great stuff, Chris!
I've written a few poems on this topic as well, but yours is so unique and descriptive. Very great work!!!
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