Poetry jam Hard Copy
sending
a letter
signing
with I Love You
to my
parents and friends
that
is just what I'd do.
But
now I type to the air
and
still
send a note or two
but
no
hard copy
sent
to you.
Something is lost !!
A
friend from years ago just found me
using
this new social airwaves
connection.
Nice.
Something is found!
This
makes me think,
do I
have letters or photos from the past?
Probably,
but if not, ...sad!
Somethings like inner
connections
are
never really lost?
Memories
THE
hard
copy in my mind
are
not lost and can be retrieved as needed?
photos
help as we go back in time
but....it
is
the
good times, the hard times, the funny times
that
form the stuff we store
in
the trunk of our mind.
So
life does not erase the past steps I taken
I
Will
Start
to use
the
older way of staying in touch.
Letters
will be sent
so
memories
are not lost in the cobwebs of my mind!
there is just something so personal about sending a letter....taking the time to hand write it...i still have quite a few...mostly from when i was dating my wife....i lived a state away the last year before we were married and wrote often...
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your reflections on letters. I think many of us are doing some reflecting after writing our poem and reading others' poems. Your poem again makes me realize what treasures letters are!
ReplyDeleteI loved the image you created with 'the trunk of our mind.' and later 'cobwebs' (in the old trunk. ) This is a lovely reflection on memory and the importance of the written word. LOVE the title!
ReplyDeleteIn this day and age, I do prefer the daily contact I have with my children, but a thank you, a yearly written birthday wish, a "how are you" letter is very, very nice.
ReplyDeleteTrunks and cobwebs and connections and memory...so nicely presented here! May we never forget the power of our words on paper. (I keep all of my writing in notebooks because I hate to think that they'd otherwise exist only out here in cyberspace! 8-)
ReplyDeleteBeginning with that great title "Hard Copy" ... through the last word, I thoroughly enjoyed this!!
ReplyDeleteYes, there is something different about hard copy letters. But then at least e-mails get written and sent!
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