Accidental Poet

The Digital Pen

It used to be

Written on paper with pen

Letters, shopping lists, and notes

For centuries that’s how it’s been

And now it’s the 21^st century

Computers are everywhere

Keyboards have replaced the pen

And Microsoft Word trades with paper there

The traditionalist in me is saddened

As the digital age is here

But the optimist in me of today

Finds it easier to turn my lyrical gears

So my paper and pen have gone digital

Saving my poetry into a holding pen

How ironic that the pen I used to hold

Now holds words I penned

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