walkingtalkingwriting the Wessex Ridgeway again with James Crowden, and companions on the "Creative Walking" Artsreach programme, beginning at the Thorncombe Village Hall; walking – a damp day trudge and rain arriving soon, the decision to return to the Village Hall by noon; talking – but first a box of second hand books in the lobby of the Village Hall with a "Help Yourself" sign, and found a hardback copy of the ESSENTIAL WORKS OF SOCIALISM, edited by Irving Howe, New York (1970); writing – James suggested poetry, perhaps we would like to try a cinquain (22 syllables – that "peak in the third line like a breaking wave"). So tried these social realism cinquain MANIFESTOS:
SUBLIME walkingtalkingwriting
1. walking
isn’t good for
writing. Real walking isn’t
talking much either: shut up and
listen.
2. walking
isn’t good for
writing. Protest against,
siren wail and Iraq-bound chinouk
drowned out.
3. walking
isn’t good for
writing. For training in
literature, green gym therapy, go
elsewhere.
4. walking
isn’t good for
writing. Waste of effort
trying to find the fine views why
we must.
5. walking
isn’t good for
writing. Up to this point
and beyond it, the next step and
the next.
mmj