Ralph Sergi Poet Rhyme

Now and Then

Now and Then
I’m writing you in cursive script
Despite computer minded folk
And cell phones where you always spoke 
You’re looking at a clock instead
All other sites are just as dead
But with my plume I let you know
So you can feel the silken flow
My passion with my written word
That you may cherish and be stirred
As in a poem you never heard
The generations have evolved
Millennials cannot recall
The time we dipped our pen in ink
and crammed our mind to send a link
To hope my words connect our troth
And love you as my solemn oath

Contemporary Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Cecilia Hopkins- Drewer
May 30, 2017

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Remar Dayaday August 30, 2017 at 8:12 PM Sir, If you don't mind, can I ask a favor, Please help me because I'm going to discuss and report this wonderful piece of yours in my class, can you help me about the details. I will highly appreciate your autobiography and everything about the piece,like what influence you to wrote it,the structures of the piece etc. I'm hoping for your respond Thank very much. Ralph Sergi September 1, 2017 at 10:15 PM Hi Remar: Sorry for the delay. i WILL EMAIL YOU SOON!

Ralph Sergi August 27, 2017 at 3:57 PM Thank you, Patricia: To think that I had lousy handwriting as a child but I was a sign painter later but coincidentally doesn't exist any longer. Patricia Cresswell August 27, 2017 at 4:21 PM Sweety it is what is in the heart that is important.This expression of love goes beyond hand writing abilities. You told her.

Patricia Cresswell August 27, 2017 at 11:24 AM Amazing love poem, I hope she read it and felt the love it contained.

Andrea Dietrich June 21, 2017 at 12:46 AM Oh I LOVE this one, Ralph. Makes me long for the days of when I wrote cursive in long letters to boyfriends!!

Samiha Zubair June 10, 2017 at 4:53 PM Link between past days and future expectations is very beautifully narrated

Connie Marcum Wong June 5, 2017 at 11:36 PM Is anyone able to hold on to a text, cherish it until it is memorized, and then place it in a special music box to keep forever, like we who have written love notes can? I still have a love note my husband wrote to me on a coaster 37 years ago. I do love the convenience of instant communication but I hope that newer generations can still appreciate a love note written on paper. I adored your poem Ralph! 7 ; )

Asad Abdalle June 1, 2017 at 4:58 PM "cell phones where you always spoke" Long distance relationship? it is beautiful, looking forward to ready more of your poems.