Machine made Elegance

poem in rhyming quatrains

 

Machine made elegance

 

My father wrote in copperplate.

His beautiful calligraphy

 I daren’t attempt to emulate

A task that’s well beyond me

 

Each letter was formed perfectly.

His grammar perfect and his prose.

Time was not a luxury.

Which was a factor I suppose..

 

My handwritings illegible.

To any one, sometimes to me.

I tend to hastily scribble

 my thoughts down as they come to me.

 

 

But my P.C has changed my style

 I can print out with clarity.

My poetry in a short while.

A blessing it has proved to be.

 

I was never taught to write

At least not write properly.

But I can print to my delight

 and that is good enough for me.

 

The old ways change and we move on.

Although not always for the best.

Perhaps its sad that time has gone.

Now copper plate is by request.

 

Computers make it easy to

present hand written poetry.

In any font as we all do.

Which certainly impresses me.

 

15/10/2009

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Reviews

[Tate Morgan]

loL mAN i DO THE SAME CAN'T READ MY OWN WRITING BUT MAKE GOOD USE OF THE PC AND ITS ABILITY TO CORRECT SPELLING AND USE DIFFERENT FONTS
tATE

[R.R.Louderback]

This is well structured and you have chosen your rhymes well. I'd have a hard time finding a rhyme for copperplate. This makes me a bit nostalgic. We are the last generation, perhaps, that remembers people who actually wrote so. Copperplate will soon fall into the realm of that known only to researchers and students of obscure works. Which is to say, librarians.