I s

I wrote this one a while back. forgot it was still on my phone memo board.

Once
she dotted her ' i ' s
with happy faces
and sunny hearts,
cramming her
impossibly tiny
letters into even
smaller spaces.

Today
she uses keys
to tap out letters
pushing a button
to choose the face
behind which she
can best hide
her true feelings.

sealed with a smile.

Author's Note

Reviews

[Rita L. Sev]

There is something to be said for handwriting, much more of the soul is revealed. A keyboard is a shield...

[Lyn Anderson]

Absolutely. Thank you for stopping in.

[willweb]

One thing it has acomplished...my handwriting is so much better now. (Smiley Face) It is hard to express emotions and it really is sad the need for some little smiling face so another doesn't think we are upset.

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes amazing how tone is inferred when it's not there

[Delmar Cooper]

An e-mail. Impersonal writ large. A letter? Sealed with the lick of her tongue. Her hand shook a bit in this sentence, she bore down hard on the paper when she wrote this part over here. These gray spots?

I think I'd better call. I think I'd better call right now.

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes, I know, there is a whole generation that will not understand.

[Rene Salinas]

The organic vs the inorganic you probably won't be surprised to know this subjects gets a lot of my attention. Most of my curiosity is driven towards what we don't get to see. When you pick a small seed, and you dig a hole and make sure the seed drops in not rocket science, thousands of seeds thrown by a mechanically driven circuit? Will they bear the same intention? Does the circuit even relate to the intention part? Do intentions matter in any shape or form?

This writings carries great questions behind it.

I wish I knew the answers

Thankyou

[John Alexander McFadyen]

I do recall reading this before? It expresses the transition from the hope of youth, full of dare and exuberance to guarded hurt adult.

[Lyn Anderson]

No. I just wrote this. Maybe someone else wrote something similar.

[Baby Ricochet]

I say let it all hang out. Well, you know what I mean.

[Lyn Anderson]

Sure, I think, Umm I don't know. :) ;)

[Fran Marie]

I agree with Dale..the keyboard blocks out the personal touch..I can't remember the last time I wrote or received a written letter...

[Lyn Anderson]

Most definitely. My callous it nearly gone. I had it all my life. I also feel it is a way to hide feelings and there are dangers of being misinterpreted as well as sending something in error.

[Fran Marie]

Yes, so true...you're welcome,

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

Just as technology has made writing too easy it has also taken a lot of the personal touch behind the document.

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes, it also makes it easier to disguise true emotion. Thank you.

[The Rock And Roll Cowboy(REBEL WITH A CAUSE)]

I cannot argue with that, well I could but I would be wrong :)