A Different Age
By Jabo
@jaboUK (64361)
United Kingdom
August 22, 2018 8:51am CST
Before computers were the rage,
we lived in a more gentle age,
debugging got fleas off your cat,
a mouse was just a smallish rat.
Our windows were to let in light,
a spider sat on its website,
online was where the washing's found
offline - oh no - it's on the ground.
We took a tablet for our pain
and where we lived was our domain,
a hard drive took us on our trips,
and spam and cookies passed our lips.
A hacker meant that someone's coughing,
we did not know that lol meant laughing
a site had building going on,
to feed a fire you put a log on.
We wrote by hand instead of emails,
and trolls were just in fairy tales,
a pop-up meant that Dad's awake
a plug-in meant a bath we'd take.
An ipad would protect our eyes
and microchips were just small fries,
when we went phishing you can bet
we put our fishes internet.
I originally wrote a version of this for Bubblews years ago, and have re-written it for here.
Photo - flowers in my garden.
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62 responses
@allknowing (130064)
• India
22 Aug 18
No matter how old this poem is it will never fade away.
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@Marilynda1225 (79769)
• United States
22 Aug 18
You are the master at your poetry and this really took a lot of thought to make it all work so well.
As always, enjoyed this and always look forward to your poems/posts.
Funny how all those words now have new meanings.
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
23 Aug 18
Very beautiful and witty rhyme, Janet, and I guess there's only one here who can be your match - Madam @sol_cee :)
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
23 Aug 18
@sol_cee And you're the Durian Queen? 
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@marguicha (215476)
• Chile
22 Aug 18
I did not read it in Bubblews. I loved your poem! Those were the days!
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@JamesHxstatic (29242)
• Eugene, Oregon
22 Aug 18
So clever and it made me laugh. Will share with Anne.
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@DeborahDiane (40056)
• Laguna Woods, California
1 Sep 18
Oh, @JaboUK - I LOVE this. You really, really need to publish your poetry. I understand that Amazon will have publishing sites in the EU soon, if not already.
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@DeborahDiane (40056)
• Laguna Woods, California
3 Sep 18
@jaboUK - I would certainly buy a copy and I bet some other people on MyLot would, too. It does not cost you anything to set up a book on CreateSpace or Kindle Direct Publishing as long as you set up the Word Document yourself and download it to their site. You might have to get a younger family member who is good with computers to help. You might even make $10 or $20 from it! You could even give the profits to the person who helps you set it up, as an incentive to help you.
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@Shellyann36 (11385)
• United States
24 Aug 18
That is awesome! How long does it take you to come up with these entertaining poems?
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@Shellyann36 (11385)
• United States
1 Sep 18
@jaboUK You have just the right touch. I enjoy reading your poems!
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@May2k8 (18080)
• Indonesia
23 Aug 18
writing poetry is clearly not easy. In such a context when a person wants to write poetry, you is not only obliged to know what and how the pronunciation of poetry forms, but also must know what and how the metaphor or symbol operates in a poetry text you wrote and you do it with very well poem.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
26 Aug 18
Boy ain't all the above the truth @jaboUK .
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