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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

Date: 8/30/2017 8:12:00 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
Date: 9/1/2017 10:15:00 PM

Hi Remar: Sorry for the delay. i WILL EMAIL YOU SOON!

Ralph Sergi

Date: 8/27/2017 3:57:00 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
Date: 8/27/2017 4:21:00 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

Date: 8/27/2017 11:24:00 AM

Amazing love poem, I hope she read it and felt the love it contained.

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 6/21/2017 12:46:00 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

Date: 6/10/2017 4:53:00 PM

Link between past days and future expectations is very beautifully narrated

Connie Marcum Wong

Date: 6/5/2017 11:36:00 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

Date: 6/1/2017 4:58:00 PM

"cell phones where you always spoke" Long distance relationship? it is beautiful, looking forward to ready more of your poems.