Monday 7 October 2013

ISSUE 7 Interlude - more creative conversations

Exciting news - the creative community widens!
Step 1:  As a result of my interview with a text poet on this blog, fellow student Aiza and I embarked on a textpoem exchange via mobile and I recorded this in my 2 September post. 
Step 2: Another commenter, Rox, a  former fellow student, was inspired by this creative collaboration.  In her 03 September comment she wrote the following haiku:

         Maybe the next could be
        sending the messages through
        A twitter haiku

I responded on mobile via sms, and another text poem interchange began, running for about 5 weeks.
Here's the result:



A 04/09
The talk begins
Two friends in conversation
Two birds on a wire

R 04/09
Share a thought or two.
Our digital dialogue
Reaches out right now

A 05/09
Separating lines
Of verse with a space or a slash
Pause between speakers

R 05/09
Seeking good guidance
Words and signs and motocons
Appear bright and brief

A 09/09
Forced to express in
A narrow space We choose words
that confine our thoughts

R 10/09
Immediately
The ebb and flow a magnet
Attracts attention

A 10/09
Punctuation stops
Our words but shapes our thinking
So others can share

R 17/09
Questions multiply
What dastardly deeds are done.
Answers must come.

A 18/09
A single act then
What’s said cannot be unsaid
Words leave fingerprints

R 26/09
Said firmly fairly
Meaning influences all
In the air a change

A 26/09
Please tell what change means-
Leaves fallen upon the ground,
Or wind that felled them?

A 26/09
Words breathe out changes
Sending leaves spinning, to fall
From trees of wisdom

R 30/09
Spring into action
Speaking, listening, hearing more
Realisation

A 30/09
In spring the winds come
Bringing change bringing new things
Words change the season

R 01/10
The seasons roll on
Pause for endings, beginnings
Pondering, planning

A 01/10
Sent on silent phones
Texts begin conversations,
Punctuate the day

R 03/10
Short and sweet the tweet
Abbreviation abounds
Ringing in the news

A 03/10
Sounds in the silence.
Mobile words resound in space
Filling up the gaps

Do you like this? want to add a haiku about the way texts connect people? Love to hear from you!