Penmanship

The other day, I paid a visit

To our local library

They had an exhibition there

Of local history.

Some items of great interest

That fascinated me

Were the many books of country life

And how things used to be.

The careful entries in the books

Penned with a flowing hand

When writing was a work of art

And for all to understand.

The loving hands that held the quill

Were much more gracious then

How very different things are now

The scrawl, the ball point pen.

The great demand on speed and time

leaves penmanship behind

So the upstroke and the downstroke

Will be lost to all mankind.

The world, the times we live in

Left me in no doubt

That scribbling is in order

And Penmanship is out.

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I come from a time when the writing of a word was a skill in itself.

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