Ilene Bauer Poet Rhyme

Visiting a Writer's House

I’ve visited some writers’ homes
And what I love the best
Is not the room where they relaxed
Or ate or slept or dressed…

But rather where they sat and wrote – 
Their typewriter and desk
And what their window framed,
Often a view most picturesque.

Today it was Pearl Buck’s estate
And staring at the keys
Of the Royal perched upon her desk
(She’d brought from overseas)…

I realized it won’t be the same
For authors of today.
To gawk at someone’s iPad
Will the fans come out and pay?

Perhaps I do romanticize
But there’s a certain charm
To a writer’s clacking which, alas,
A P.C. does disarm.

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Connie Marcum Wong November 27, 2016 at 2:46 AM I feel the same way. It kind of helps you to enter their world and get the feeling that you are looking over their shoulder while they are writing, no matter how many years have passed and they may be long gone, but there is still that feeling of closeness. You have conveyed this beautifully in your poem Ilene. 7 ; )

Jan Allison November 26, 2016 at 7:29 PM I really can relate to your poem Ilene it really is a totally different world now. I visited the Bronte museum as I found it absolutely fascinating to see the conditions they lived and worked in.. I do scrawl some of my poems in a notebook but i doubt anyone could decipher it lol:-) hugs Jan xx