Misty Pings Poem by Michael Shepherd

Misty Pings

Rating: 1.9


Sometimes fat fingers on the keyboard
produce the surreal that leaves me
not cursing as usual
at the way my brain brain he says
and hand were not wired up properly,
but laughing out loud
with sheer delight like a child
meeting the joy of absurdity in words
which somehow gets suppressed
in the years of growing... down?

I've just written a comment
about such matters of mistyping, and
there on the paper it is in black and white -
'misty pings'...

remember those old steam typewriters
with their tap tap and just before the end of the line,
a bell pinged to warn you?

I'm sitting here entranced by
misty pings,
thinking yes, could describe some of my poems...
I think I may have hit a brand-new metaphor, like..
like a nail hit on the head.
In the fog, or the mist of dawn.
ping.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Scarlett Treat 25 April 2007

I know exactly what you mean. ding I grew up with a typewriter which. ding dinged at the end of each and every. ding sentence, and I loved it cause I never. ding had to look up. I just listened for the. ding ding at the end of the line, and when it. ding dinged, I hit that return bar and never. ding missed a beat. Loved it.

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Archie Langford 25 April 2007

tryping, I`m new to It and wondering why I ever got involved.archie L

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Yep! And I'm going to use 'years of growing down' too... love this M, smile-inducing. Wonders even in mistakes eh? :) t x

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David Taylor 25 April 2007

Like an echo sounding the depths Ping, , , , , , and waitng Ping it comes back Complete with the knowledge Of where it has been No mistaking a Ping that's from thee!

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Danny Reynolds 25 April 2007

A syndrome which is not Alien to others. Yes, even in an unexpected Space no one can HERE you scream. (But just in case, carpet bomb the forum to hide your f**k-ups!) LOL You wont here any arguments from me, that's a giv...ing(?) Danny

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Michael Shepherd

Michael Shepherd

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