This is for all, any or few who use the computer to give, get or find some kind of comfort or fulfilment.
The Penny Dropped*
This penny dropped minutes ago:
That those who read the po-
etry I write –
Who take the bite by tapping out
A Like or Heart –
Emoji showing taking part –
That they, or she or he
Is somewhere on this round, round globe
Alone and bound
To isolation’s empty ground –
For some a prism in their prison.
Rewarded with a new respect.
In twenty second’s new reaction;
Realization not to share
For any other reason
Than to know that some are there
Under the most extenuating circumstance:
Pandemic’s viruses,
Computer the main avenue
To reaching him, her, you
(Which may be all they see
Throughout a lonely day)
Makes motive purified,
The ego minimized.
The Penny Dropped 2.13.2021 Revelations Big & Small; Arlene Nover Corwin
the penny droppedinformal, chiefly British used to indicate that someone has finally realized something: I was about to ask Jack who it was, when the penny suddenly dropped.
Arlene Corwin Poetry 