I write. My words spill over pages – scrawled words, jotted down hastily; poems pencilled into notebooks; my daily words, sandwiched between first drafts and shopping lists. Endless lists.
I write in clinic. I’m not going to sit over a keypad while you talk to me. I write in meetings, to keep my monkey hands occupied. I write on the chalkboard at home. Give me an appointment, and I’ll write it on the calendar. I’m analogue, me, as well as digital. More analogue than digital, maybe. Sometimes I’ll write a word just for the pleasure of shaping it.
hawk rides the clear air
earth is a map beneath her
waiting to be read
Kim is keeping the dVerse bar, and asking us to write a haibun about handwriting. Is it a dying art? Well, mine is neither dying, nor an art…
Beautiful:
“Sometimes I’ll write a word just for the pleasure of shaping it.”
What are your favorite letter’s to write? Cursive or print?
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I like Cs and Ss – I like the curves. I doodle in and around them, so perhaps it isn’t really writing after all…
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I used to love to keep my hands scribbling… but it seems like I have replaced it by my keyboard… I need to learn calligraphy…
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I have dabbled in calligraphy, but I like to write by hand sometimes because it connects me more to the words, and slows me down. Also, I like to write a final reflection in bed, and I don’t want to be on akeyboard now.
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I am so glad you still write, Sarah. I do, but I can’t always read my scrawl – I can’t even hold a pen sometimes. One thing we have in common, though, is lists. I have post-its, a Filofax, and other bits of paper full of to do lists, shopping lists, lists of submissions to magazines and competitions, books to read and lists of lists! I love that you ‘write a word just for the pleasure of shaping it’ and your hawk reading earth like a map!
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Having a chalkboard seems like a good idea. It is nice to see writing on the wall.
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I’m a list girl as well. Although they are all on the computer. I have turned into a totally digital woman….I even print out my menus for the week and use a magnet to stick them on the fridge. I always hated writing by hand – so constrained by teachers. My handwriting is atrocious. I can’t even read it the few times I write – age and arthritis. Your haiku is magnificent. I love the map beneath the hawk waiting for her to read. Spectacular.
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I have a difficult time writing “by hand” now–except for lists and notes. I also jot things on a calendar hanging on the kitchen wall, but poetry and real writing I do on my computer.
Your haiku is breathtaking!
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I enjoy reading about the analogue -you!
And you hit bullseye with that haiku!👊
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Like you, I leave scribbled notes everywhere! One day my children will wonder that I had so much to say!
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This just left me feeling good–to know that there is someone else out there with monkey hands (I have a monkey mind to go with) and who loves the feel of writing. I am also a bit compulsive about lists–those I print and then get to cross off after it–what ever it is–is done. My sister across the pond!
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Aww.. beautiful. I’m not a list person but I would love to try it this year.
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Check out the basic bullet journal website for great listing ideas!
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Stunning haiku Sarah! I am now seeing an aerial view completely differently. And I am a compulsive scribbler, in between patient appointments and meeting I do the same, my pockets often full of little coloured pieces of paper I cant piece together! I am honoured to meet another scribbler.
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I love the voice in this…..and especially the last line of your prose. I think I’ve almost forgotten the pleasure of handwriting!
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Perfect, Sarah. You’ve coerced me into doodling again. I used to do it all the time as a kid.
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I think this is a lovely write. I too, especially like the following sentiment: Sometimes I’ll write a word just for the pleasure of shaping it.. What joy. XX
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Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #5: SarahSouhwest’s latest #haibun for #dversepoets (and a great candidate for my current #Haikai challenge 😉)!
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Thank you, Frank! Always an honour.
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The haiku to the prose was perfect.
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for the pleasure of shaping it…I can relate and that’s how one knows they are doing what they should and must do right?
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