I am held captive
You seem to control my life
Always in focus
I remember being free
When a phone was just a phone
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OK, so I went back and chose a drawing almost at random and wrote a poem based on it ;) We were just talking about drawings I used to post on the blog, so this is the outcome.
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Written for Colleen’s Poetry Challenge. This is the first week of the month so it is poet’s choice of words. Let’s see, what words should I chose, I mean what words DID I chose before I wrote this… mobile and immobile.
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Great Tanka, Trent! I love the drawing too. I can’t imagine how I survived for so long without a smartphone. ;) xo
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Thanks, Vashti! Actually, yeah, they do make life so much easier, don’t they? There are few objects that I can think of that changed life quite as much.
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You’re right.
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We are lost without our phones, good one Trent. :)
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There are people who can’t function if their phone isn’t in easy reach… Thanks.
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Yes I remember those days….. :-)
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I have to think of Maxwell Smart’s shoe and how much a joke a truly mobile phone was back then ;)
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Trent, this is a fabulous Tanka and I love your image. Wow! Excellent! <3
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Thanks, Colleen! After the conversation on your blog I am going to try to dig up more drawings I did for the blog.
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You should create some Haiga poetry with your drawings like Kerfe does. You are very talented. :D
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Thanks, Colleen. I often do take some time to match my images to my words with the poems, but haven’t tried to go that far. Yet. May have to give it a try :)
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You definitely should!
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Your drawing is really good, Trent, and so is your poem. I didn’t realise you had designed some of your own covers until I read your author interview over at Colleen’s blog.
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Thanks, Robbie. In the comments on Colleen’s interview I was talking about some of the drawings I used to do for the blog. I tried to put up a new drawing every week. The problem, of course, is that it is time consuming! But I will try bring a few of them up on occasion.
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That would be nice, you are very artistic.
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Thanks :)
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Well done – I don’t love “all” tankas and have actually yawned and left the ones with too many conjunctions and articles – but your poem here today made me start to like them again –
And love the pairing of the drawing
In the 80s I paid my brother 5$ to install a red one like that in my room
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Thanks, Y. I can’t remember the last time I saw an old phone like that. Of course, the old phone is being displayed on the screen of a smart phone, so old meets new. The story I drew this for was pretty forgettable, but I do like the drawing.
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