Going Green Poem by Nandhagopal Ramachandiran

Tap, tap, tap
When my son taps the tablet screen
I am lost in thought for a generation
From the days of stone carvings and seals
To the era of minted coins and palm leaf manuscripts
Man etched and etched his thoughts
Then his colorful ink wrote over the papers
That were typed later into tomes in the shelf
I saw his beautiful calligraphy in the writing museum
Soon the computerized printers were born
To take care of his committed errors in the proofs
Well, that's the history of an era bygone!
Going green to save the trees
Our kids hold the clouds (cloud computing)
Within the reach of their paperless tablets
There will be an obituary meeting for the printers
In the writing museum in no time!