Perhaps because I am an actor, this week’s prompt from ReadWritePoem.Org “Get Your Poem On” appealed to me from a visual as well as a language perspective. We were to “set the scene” rather than “describe the action”….
So I created a scene in my mind where a writer suddenly disappears. She is seen, every dawn, on her porch and one day – while her coffee is on her desk and her pen is poised to write,
She vanishes.
Enjoy.
The one whose pen waits, patient
Coffee mist still rising
Electricity spurts forth
Without the on switch
Books in stacks hover
"Read me, next, choose me at dawn"
No reader, no life comes
Cat seeks her owner
Absent perfume scent lingers
Tail hugs Queen Anne chair
Forty five degrees
Angle, that is, seat still warm
Why is no one here?
I love the photos and the mystery. Love the books begging to be chosen.
Posted by: jone | November 05, 2009 at 06:32 AM
You give an eerie feel to this this, and the pictures set it off perfectly.
Posted by: Anthony North | November 05, 2009 at 06:45 AM
Hi Julie,
Fun combination of words and pictures. What has happened to the writer? Is no-one home? She's gone in to answer the telephone!
Posted by: Derrick | November 05, 2009 at 06:50 AM
tee hee hee... I am not saying what happened to that crazy writer, that is part of the fun... in my journal I wrote these words:
"The essence of the scene lives in the questions the audience asks while looking at the scene, the screen image"... and that was what I attempted to convey.
So grateful for your time in reading and commenting today, Jone, Anthony and Derrick!
Posted by: Julie Jordan Scott | November 05, 2009 at 06:52 AM
I loved the visual way you created the set up!
scrawled sheet of paper
Posted by: gautami tripathy | November 05, 2009 at 07:05 AM
So good to see the space, the sacred space, where you create.
Posted by: Susan | November 05, 2009 at 07:21 AM
A lady after my own heart - combining photography and poetry. I need to do that more often.
Love - love - love this! It's both mysterious and teasing. You did a super job with this prompt!
Posted by: Zouxzoux | November 05, 2009 at 07:55 AM
The combination between images and verse is so cool. The desk faces the street.The empty chair in the last photo is an invitation to sit and continue the dialog/poem .
...and I sit here
thanks for the lemonade
the opportunity to share
I love it.
Posted by: Ana | November 05, 2009 at 08:00 AM
Nice, since we know our writer is busy taking pictures, that we feel so open to speculate why she's not at her desk or in her Queen Anne chair. Despite knowing where she is, I think she's taken a bathroom break. That second cup of steaming coffee works in more than one way. :)
Thanks for sharing your writing space with us, Julie. Great place out of which to write. The morning light is wonderful!
Posted by: Paul Oakley | November 05, 2009 at 08:49 AM
This is like a performance piece in a way...very imaginative! (I think she just might be in the bathroom...)ha!
Posted by: Cynthia Short | November 05, 2009 at 11:13 AM