Week 17

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Week - 17 - challenge
A revolutionary milestone!

Write a poem about a historic invention.

I have chose - Printing press to newspaper

(poetry format -  FOUND POETRY from Wikipedia.org)

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Mechanical
Movable type printing
Allowed mass production
Of printed books
By Johann Gutenberg

A simple device
Launched a revolution
Repeated advances in technology
A popularization
Of the ideals of liberty
Of freedom of information exchange

Paved the way
To the newspaper
Developed in the 17th century
Information sheets
For merchants

A periodical publication
Of written Information
Containing current events
Typed in black ink
With white background
Covers a wide variety of fields

A revolutionary milestone
The whole world
In your palms
In front of your eyes

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