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!
