a Poem for National Handwriting Day

Count the keys on this LARGE PRINT typewriter pictured above.

Writing Mechanics 103

 

Handwriting

I let my machine, a Dell, write for me  
That way people can read what I want to say  

 Simple writing. drawing, and coloring,

all are hand and coordination skills,

mundane, take practice, I color the best

But it's the thought to be conveyed that counts

Spelling

I spell better than my spell checker does  

Now mine is a belligerent speller,

always wanting to exhibit the new,

variations of our oft used familiar words  

Shut it off I won't, never will happen

cause I've retired my old Mr. Webster

 

Onto paper
 

Down deep I'm a clever guy, so I think

But my thoughts must surface to allure you,  

telling what's in my heart, for your pleasure 

One-room school vocabulary comes out;

paper though there is none, fingers to keys,
all into the machine and on to yours

(Tidbit:  why do we still call it "writing") 
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Photo and Poem Copyright, © 2012 and 2018 Jimmiehov respectively, All Rights Reserved

 - Photo, Large Print Typewriter taken by me, previously posted on my other blog in various places, beginning around year 2012. http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/search?q=typewriter 
 _I'm linked with Magaly Guerrero at the Imaginary Garden, The Tuesday Platform, where she is encouraging us to write for our National Handwriting Day (today), at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-tuesday-platform_23.html