Last day of Poem-a-Day 2014. Hardly a poem, but a tribute to the days of yore.

Starting Up…

At Ease
Balloon help
ClarisWorks
DiskWarrior
Extensions
Finder
G3
HyperCard
iTools
Java
KidPix
Launcher
“Macintosh Demo Games”
Netscape Communicator
OpenDoc
Platinum
QuickTime
ResEdit
SimpleText
Thirty-one character file names
USB
Virtual Memory: off

Welcome to Macintosh → OS X Yosemite

And a haiku for the same era:

If your memory
Cannot hold all it needs to
How much did you give?

(Continue reading…)

I just learned about this today, via @boredzo via @rtmfd on Twitter. Since I’m still out of titles for Poem-a-Day 2014, I figured I’d use this as subject matter.

The year: ’83, with the eighth month near done
Ash and smoke lingered on breezes above
But no one predicted the spectacle to come
On that day in the Southern Pacific

People, unknowing, many miles away
Without any cares for the isle in the bay
When Mount Krakatoa lived up to its name¹
On that day in the Southern Pacific

When all of a sudden—with a CRACK! with a…

(Continue reading…)

Again, no title for Poem-a-Day 2014, so I decided to make this pop sonnet, based on the original by J. Sean.

There’s but one thought that should be on your mind
This night of nights, discard the cares that bind
Like troubadours, to give the chance to me
Observing your unbridled revelry

Cast off your worries without second glance
And grant to me the pleasure of a dance
To off in distant lands I’ll spirit you
And make a paradise for just we two

Milady needs to carry naught at all
Let us depart, the ’ntire eve…

(Continue reading…)