Tuesday, October 29, 2013

dVerse: iKnow

dVerse: OpenLinkNight

How to Capture a Poem




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beautiful country scene
outside the car window
as we're zooming by
a glimpse of purple flowers
dots the hillside
iMust capture this vision
in a haiku
grab my iPhone 
go to Notes APP
& tap out a few words
as the moving car
will allow
& eyes will allow
before iSickness
sets in
my mind will forget
a voice memo

from years of writing poetry
iKnow i just need the
first few words
& the rest will flow
besides, who has
a pen & paper handy
these days?




14 comments:

  1. Oh the iSickness catch me too.. your were on a roll with these lines Maggie... cool

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  2. iSickness...haha..i like...and true... the first words are often those that open the stream so that the rest can flow... be careful with writing in the car though... and i really mean it... i've seen really bad accidents because of phone use while driving... ugh..

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  3. smiles...i dont usually get it, unless we are driving through the mountains...if i am driving i am fine....if i am the passenger, i cont do it....and def if i can just get a brief note it will flow when its time comes...

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  4. I always have pen and paper. Though I do not have a smart phone or twitter so I must carry them. >KB

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  5. I agree with you. If you just start with a few words, the rest will follow. (I don't usually carry a pen and paper around either!)

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  6. The flow of your words are amazing! and beautiful written.

    I love this poem a lot. :)

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  7. Oh, I pine for the Poet's Notebook, fat with phrases, ideas and scattered verses..........

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  8. The camera is the new pen for me. I 'm always pulled by purple.

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  9. Very nice. I certainly relate. :-)

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  10. a few do, but I use my phone too ~

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  11. Pen and paper, one is wet and one is dead. Well done, like the iWorld references!

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  12. love the i-References; i-Sickness is something a lot of us are beginningto suffer from - Apple is everywhere.

    I still use paper and pencil to jot notes - when I've remembered to pick them up ... smles

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  13. always a pen and pad, even in bed..but driving is so hard to catch..how about the recorder on the phone next time..hate it when the words are there and I do not capture them all right then..yes..could you not text them to yourself or use the notes function? or not fast enough

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    1. It doesn't come thru my writing, but I was the passenger catching haiku in the car. If I'm driving, I try to hold onto the thought till I can jot it down. Mostly my short term memory is nonexistent though. My galaxy of lost haiku ;-O Thanks for stopping by!

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