NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 14 prompt: Write a poem that bridges (smoothly or not) the seeming divide between poetry and technological advances.

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Some do not read.
No books with poems. No nursery rhymes,
no love songs, no humorous verse or limerick.

Is that the gap—the divide?

Art and science are children of the human mind.

Is poetry still true if mediated, assisted,
or generated? Did other humans tamper with Edgar Allan Poe,
or Leaves of Grass?
Is it still art?

Machines resemble poems.

Write your poem with paper and pen,
a pencil and Big Chief tablet. Write on a manual
typewriter or one electrified with a ball of letters.

Does the computer keyboard bridge a gap?

No bridges to cross, no crevasses to span.

As old as the Epic of Gilgamesh.

But is a poem still a poem if no one reads it?

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Look both ways to see art and technology.
Recognize the gaps, but do not create bridges where there were never any divides.