Your Msg Box is 90% Full
Be right there
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They want us there by 9
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OK I don’t think it’s
too late
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the parks lady called
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My battery is low
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Call me when you get close
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The ticket line is
taking a while
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Where R you?
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LOL I looked at my
bike today
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What does the Doc say?
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I just wanted to
know
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OK I am open now
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Went to work
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Driving now can’t text
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Home tomorrow
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Good! Come by @ 2
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I love you and the boys
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I was getting off the train
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I was just panicking
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I think I’m lost
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Trapped by pouring rain
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LOL you don’t look out of place!
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Sitting in Starbucks
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Can you come home?
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Can you grab me a shirt?
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Awesome and yes
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Marmalade and pb sandwiches?
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Want to meet for lunch?
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You sound stressed
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Sorry my phone doesn’t know your name
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In Philly airport
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- Andromeda Jazmon
Today's Friday Poetry Round up is hosted by Mary Lee at A Year of Reading. Enjoy your Easter weekend!
Also - the March Carnival of Children's Literature is up here at Secrets & Sharing Soda. Catch some of the best blog posts of the past month and discover a few new-to-you bloggers!
Don't forget to check out the Hilary McKay blog tour that went on this week! Some great interviews and reviews posted, including my giveaway post here. We had a riveting conversation about writing cultural identity into diverse characters in children's literature.
8 comments:
Only a poet would see a scramble of text messages and see the potential for a poem. Interesting to see these flashes from your life. Like the back and forth and the urgency here and there.
I LOVE this! I have to do one. Unfortunately most of my husband's texts say "OK." (And that's all.)
LOL yeah, we are kinda wordy. :) But to tell the poet's truth, I mixed up a couple conversations with different people to pull out the best comments and construct a new story.
I love this...what a clever idea, to weave a new story from scraps of your old messages! Maybe you've created a new poetic form: Textscambles? SMSPoetry?
I love the "Driving now can't text". What fun! I had to clean mine out lately too. Now I wish I'd looked a little harder! Thanks for the extra links too!
Love this, Andi! Now I shall have to scroll through my texts to see if I can salvage poetry from amongst all those weird abbreviations and words.
What a fun idea...
It must have been fun to think about how to put these together. The bare hint of stories shows up in a way that I think is fascinating:
"What does the Doc say?
I think I'm lost
Can you grab me a shirt?"
Very cool!
Well, I'd say that's allowed, Andy! The poem you "found" shows slices of so much of our lives. Bravo!
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