October 1947 QST
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Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles
from
QST, published December 1915 - present (visit ARRL
for info). All copyrights hereby acknowledged.
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I have never been a fan of "free
verse" poetry, be it in the form of a
sonnet or otherwise.
In my humble opinion, poems that do not both rhyme and have some measure
of meter represent laziness on the part of the 'poet.' Without requiring
poetry to rhyme, all that is required to declare anything a poem is to break
the writing into poem-like lines, et voilà - you have a poem. It is like
slinging a brush-load of paint onto a canvas and calling it art.
-- I hereby proclaim the above to be a poem - see what I mean?
I will (reluctantly) excuse the following example since it was written by a Ham
about Amateur Radio, and it does satisfy the definition of a sonnet regarding juxtaposing
unrelated concepts.
Here are a few other electronics-themed poems:
A Radioman's Nightmare,
The Day Before Christmas,
Sonnet of a Ham,
Unpopular Electronics,
Ode to a New Rig,
Power Supply,
More 'Tower' to You, Requiem,
Pre-Radio,
What Is It?,
Ravin
Sonnet of a Ham
Today I held the wide world in my hand;
Space rolled away and England's sun was low,
As Ken of Cambridge told me of his land.
Next, fast as thought, as he said, "Cheerio,"
I raced the sun, until at zenith time
O'er western plains I said "Hello" to Lee -
Then "73," and morning skies were mine
As John became my host at Waikiki.
The XYL recalled my wandering
To Georgia's pines, for dinnertime was nigh.
When, afterward, with Venus shimmering
Beside a thin new moon and Mars' red light,
I gazed their way, and wondered as night fell -
"Cannot we hold these in our hands as well?"
- Ewell G. Pigg, W4KGD
Posted July 19, 2016
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