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Digby Says...
Whimsy
Within the Lines
The art in writing is some times writing the art in the writing.
Once upon a time and place I taught some children how to write Haiku poems. I gave each child a blank piece of paper and a pencil. After some moments of staring at the paper, one child announced that he could not write poems. I asked him what was stopping him.
“There are no lines on the paper,” he said. “I can only write if there are straight lines to write on.”
“Poems,” I answered, “do not always have to be written in straight lines.”
He looked at me, and then at the paper. He wrote his Haiku as a spiral.
We write and read stories, word by word, line by line, event by event and our lives are never like that. Our stories create the illusion that our lives unfold coherently and make sense moment to moment. Here are some words to find the stories within.
Moments of Change
A story unfolds beginning itself it began the sun was red
and tells to show as an ordinary day that morning
how now in the sky
she thought he saw the change it seemed
about life the moment had started unusual
and change and somehow
she was for other people the others he watched
after all were there were coming quietly
at that they too waiting
moment were needing
for the first time ready to dance this moment her again
quiet. in the street. of change. to change.
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Haiku View
Words frame my vision,
Speaking edges in my life,
Small letterboxes.
Words -
Small - frame -
letter - my vision, -
boxes. * Speaking edges -
in my life. -
words
small frame
letter my vision
boxes speaking edges
in my life
There are many ways we place boundaries, shapes and limits to our lives and experience. The words we use and the order we give to them provide the window we look through and the picture we create.
Often is it the question that opens a door. Who says we must write in strait lines?
© J. Digby Henry, MA, CHF, January 2011
In the moment of the word, is the frame of the experience.
In the frame of the experience is the limit of the moment.
Spoken by Thaddeus Mostly the Third.
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Digby Says Archives
Below is a list of topics from past Digby Says articles. Click on the topic to open a PDF of that month's Provisionary.
The Thinkings of Thaddeus Mostly
Bugle and Carbung Walking Words
Along the Journey from Corcaigh
The Places of Purpose and Experience
Pebbles in the Mind - The Addiction of Belief
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