Come to the office please, now!
Can you tell me what this says?
We can’t understand your writing.
You’ll have to write more clearly
Slow down a little
Were you away on handwriting lesson day?
It’s a scrawl I know
Never been anything less than that
Little character
Nothing geometrical
A jumble of swirls and strokes
Acute and ugly angles
Each with a mind of their own
All with the intention of articulation.
Don’t know why I write so poorly
Been a life long affliction
Plenty of wraps on knuckles when younger
From zealous teachers wanting more,
But legibility was not my forte
Constant questions: what does this say?
Thank goodness for word processors I say.
Written for: http://pookypoetry.wordpress.com/2014/07/04/poetry-prompt-65-handwriting/
Morpethroad 
Sounds familiar — my family complains that I should have been a doctor — writing is illegible — but I try so hard!
Know how you feel Jen, I heard the same comments. Oh dear we have been saved by the computer.
And for all the scrawling, do you find the computer faster too? Not only am I illegible, I’m *s*l*o*w! Oh well.
Slow is ok so long as people can read it.
🙂
My mother has very fancy handwriting, so I used to copy her handwriting when I was a child, so mine is pretty good. But my dad’s was bad.
Well as I suggest in this poem mine is still appalling. Thanks for reading and your comment Jackie.
I’m left-handed. That, to me, puts me at an immediate disadvantage — especially when using fountain pen or the old post office pen we used at school. I was the last one in the class to graduate from pencil. My writing now is just legible 🙂
We make a good pair Lyn, mine is slightly worse than that made so as I don’t write much anymore these days. Even my signature has deteriorated.
I have so many styles of writing, straight up & down, slanted to the left or right, printed and others. I wonder what that says about me. I was going to say you must be a doctor ~ smiles
Doctor? Of what do you think? Thank you so much for reading.
I dare not say..and you are welcome
I love writing by hand. It feels like painting to me. When I write for myself I add all kinds of flourishes, I don’t care if it cant be read. When I write for others, I print.
Writing for yourself with flourishes sounds like fun. Is that a poem brewing right there…?
Thanks nessa, I do make an effort if I know someone may read what I write but even then I find I slip into old bad habits. I like your approach.
Lovely Michael, great humorous ending.
Thanks Peter, glad you found it so.
The first thing i thought of was Prescriptions written in a doctors surgery – before they did stuff with computers… lol
I honestly, would go to the pharmacy and insist they rung the doctor to confirm the name and dose of the medication.
I would not be suprised if people died as a result of the illegible handwriting of doctors.
ML
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Hello miss Lou lovely to see you. My specialist hand writes his pathology requests which confuse me as to what he is asking for. Handwriting in many ways is becoming a lost art.
I love Handwriting, and try to encourage my children as much as possible to practice. They only get 30 minutes a day on technology so hopefully it will carry on through to the next generation.
I recently engraved my Footy Juniors medals with an engraving pen that one of my parents donated. It took some getting used to, but I was so thankful for my beautiful cursive handwriting at that point!
Well good you have that skill Lou, I was never so blessed. Probably why I have never been asked to engrave anything.
Lol, I told all my families in advance that we did not have the money to get them professionally engraved, so they should expect something interesting when they got their medals.
The said that made it all the more special. #BlessTheirHearts!
I like that approach. I bet they were and will always be special.
*beaming smiles*
Our signature policy at work is – if it’s illegible – we need to print our name next to our signature.
I am one of those people that needs to print my name next to my signature.
I think I have nice hand-writing overall though. 🙂
Well I think that’s a gift you should cherish RoSy as I have awful handwriting.