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Post by AquarianM on Jul 2, 2018 1:04:32 GMT -6
Lonely Old Things...
Perhaps a candalabra,
Filled with glowing wax,
Hovers over blank parchment,
A dusty plume quill lying silent,
Next to the dried-up inkwell,
There on the desk in Mary Shelley's room.
Percy will never come home again,
As Frankenstein's monster shall have no siblings,
And the headstone on Mary's mother's grave,
That grows weathered and smooth,
Cracked and tilted,
The flowers there wildly entwined with the weeds.
Even long-hand cursive writing seems doomed,
All despite its lustrous flowing curves,
Sweeping grace into the ephemera of the past.
It was ever the creatures of fortune,
Who could call such things as normal.
It wounds the world to see them as lonely old things...
AquarianM
By: Daniel A. Stafford
(C) 07/01/2018
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Post by goldenmyst on Jul 2, 2018 3:47:56 GMT -6
I can hardly write cursive anymore. I never write poetry by hand always by keyboard. I remember thirty years ago I wrote exclusively by hand. I inked reams of paper. It takes away some of the romance of writing now that quills, pens, and paper are fading away. I wonder if a hundred years from now, handwriting will be a thing of the past. Times change but this loss hurts the soul. I admire your tenacity in writing on paper. We need people like you who keep alive the age-old tradition so that the dying art doesn't perish. Your poem speaks to my writer's heart.
John
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Post by susan on Jul 2, 2018 7:53:24 GMT -6
i barely write that way anymore for me it's always printing...
i do write a bit, cursive, but, not as a rule.....alot faster for me to write with printing...
well done...
john, i thought i heard that they're teaching writing at school again.....
some of the stuff, i write is on paper as well, well not exactly...but you know what i mean
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Post by AquarianM on Jul 2, 2018 8:07:28 GMT -6
John, thank you.
Susan, thank you.
I most often "write" via keyboard or mobile phone. Time "is a lemon," after all these days.
I do from time to time write in cursive because I love it, snd it's a different part of the brain in use. It's a luxury when I have the time.
Dan
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Post by susan on Jul 2, 2018 8:39:11 GMT -6
i can write keyboard, but don't think i'd be able to write mobile phone, i mean i have one, but one i don't have e-mail on it, and two, i don't have a mini keyboard.....so.....it's a flip up....but i like it, all the same....perhaps one day i'll get an iphone or something, but....not now
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Post by susan on Jul 2, 2018 8:39:29 GMT -6
you're welcome
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Post by susan on Jul 2, 2018 8:40:09 GMT -6
as soon as i can get a copy, i'm going to post something that i put (was asked to) in a small free newspaper here, about canada day....i've asked someone to send it to me via e-mail....
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Post by AquarianM on Jul 2, 2018 13:24:39 GMT -6
Susan, writing anything on a flip-phone would be a nightmare. I have an android touchscreen phone. I am an I.T. Instructor after all, and have been working in technology since 1980. However, I strongly recommend that we keep our skills with paper writing and drawing. First, it comes more naturally and developes fine motor skills, and second, if there were ever a nuclear event or large enough solar flare, computer technology could be decimated for several years. It's also good for poetry. I keep a fairly large supply of paper, notebooks, art supplies, pens, and pencils. I also have an old-school hand-cranked pencil sharpener like I grew up with in the 60's & 70's. I will be able to write in any conditions except earthquake or flooding.
Dan
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Post by lostineternity99 on Jul 3, 2018 6:49:17 GMT -6
Sadly, children today may never write in cursive or experience the rich tapestry of life which lies just out of reach of their cell phones and tablets.
Your poem is an emotional powerhouse, Dan. |
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Post by Brian on Jul 3, 2018 22:22:23 GMT -6
Time's touch changes everything. Not always for the better.
Moving write Dan.
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Post by AquarianM on Jul 3, 2018 23:02:58 GMT -6
Rick & Phoenix, thank you. Paper is such a wonderfully tac5ile thing. It's easy to love.
Dan
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