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Not my hobby: the beginning of something special

5/13/2020

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collage with red feather, sheet music, birch tree, and shorthand
Morning

I HeARd the CaRDiNal siNGing before I saw it
PerCHeD in the BiRcH tree
tHen a CAt LOOkiNG At mE,
LOOkiNG at iT
And, ONe MoRe SaP BUCket
tHat MaKes ThrEE


This is a throwback: a collage and poem I created a few years ago. It's still one of my favorites. You can see I was starting to use sheet music in my work.

It's also got a bit of shorthand mixed in: that line with the dot below it.

Do you know what it means? Morning. That simple line with a dot = a word.

Shorthand
Shorthand is a symbolic writing system used by office clerks and secretaries before voice recorders were available. I'm not fluent in shorthand. It comes from a shorthand instruction book I found at a secondhand shop. The book has an index, so it's easy to pull a single word.

It's like code writing because so few people still know shorthand. Don't you think it would be great for a secret diary or message? One big drawback, though, you'd have to learn shorthand to make it work.

And the poem?
I don't consider myself a poet, but sometimes I like to combine words with images to tell short stories. I don't remember now why I used upper and lower case letters for the poem, but it does make it interesting.

If you'd like to write more, short poems could be a starting point.

Not my hobby.
Even if you don't stick with it, a new hobby might lead to something else. I haven't done much more with poetry, but the collage was the beginning of a lot more collage work. I now work entirely with sheet music and really like collage.

Do you have a hobby that started while you were doing something else?


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