Writing

Writing is fun, writing can be a chore. But above all, writing is about passion.

Sure, all of us can write. Out of necessity, because of the nature of our work, or there is a damn report to file. Or a need to communicate, to complain, to praise , to apologise. Or we write because we love to, we have The Next Big Novel to publish, the Greatest Poem to share with the world.

Yes, I'm still an old-fashioned guy when it comes to writing. I like writing with a pencil on paper. In the old days before the PC and the word processor, I bashed out the finished product on an old Olivetti typewriter. Now the computer makes us lazy.

So here is a poem about writing, written some time back. (Sorry, not the Greatest Poem).
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WRITING

sometimes

i struggled

with blunt pencil

record fleeting thoughts

on torn computer paper

in hope

that these squiggles

would see light

in a book .

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