Like a dinosaur’s nest,
there are no eggs in my mailbox.
The post is nearly extinct
and I’m to blame.
Little mammalian emojis
are nimbler than lumbering
letters sealed with a kiss.
But what have we lost?
Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt and Living Poetry’s Monday Prompt.
But it got me thinking and so, to appease the postal gods, I will send you, my dear reader, an original poem of ink on paper written in my own hand. All you have to do is email me, bart.barker@gmail.com, with your address and a word to inspire me. I’ll send the poem anywhere a postman will go.
Bartholomew Barker, Poet 
What a lovely offer. Thank you.
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Thank you for reading, K.
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My pleasure.
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So beautiful! 🥺💕
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Thank you very much!
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Aye Laddie,
What have we lost indeed? I actually cared about penmanship once. Now we don’t even have to think, we have machines to do that for us too.
Thought provoking.
M
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As long as the electricity keeps flowing, I guess it’ll be okay.
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We are all to blame. But the world keeps spinning, and nothing is static…we change or get left in the dust. But when composing poetry, I still use paper and pencil, though my handwriting isn’t as neat as it once was; it’s rusty, like the rest of me. lol
Poignant poem, Bartholomew. A trifle sad…
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Thanks, Jai. I still do first drafts with pen and paper but revisions are almost always done with a text editor.
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I’ve never tried my computer’s text editor with poetry, just fiction. Does it help with the process?
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I prefer a simple text editor for poetry because it doesn’t try to be “helpful” like Microsoft Word does when it capitalizes words for me or highlights what it perceives of as errors.
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You made a great point!
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Thanks, CB! Let’s all send more letters.
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Too true! I’m excited by your offer, so expect an email from me 🙂
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Excellent! I’m eager to write something for you.
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Here’s one I made earlier…. https://theorkneynews.scot/2020/01/26/poetry-corner-life-lived-as-an-emoji/
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While I’m sure the next generation will compose emoji based poetry, I’m equally sure it will be wasted on me.
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What have we lost? A ponderous question. An art form, perhaps.
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Agreed. I kinda wish we still sealed envelopes with wax and a fancy seal.
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I have a friend who does that – a wax seal with her initial on it in gothic script. I use them to help to light the fire.
A combination of old ways – including ‘waste not – want not’.
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Intriguing opportunity Bartholomew! 😇
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I try to offer a little intrigue with my poetry.
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Totally relatable Bart … those perfumed letters were precious …
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That’s a lovely haiku!
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Thanks Bart
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