I wrote this poem: Doodle

Posted on Monday, October 20th, 2008 in poems Tags: , ,

I wouldn’t normally post another poem so soon after the last one, but I wrote this today and it was too much fun not to put up immediately. (Click the image for a bigger version.)

Doodle (a poem)

Doodle

This is not a poem.
It’s just scribble,
a doodle in which
my wandering pencil
forms random lines
resembling letters
arranged into words
to make this.
Which is definitely not a poem.

© 2008 C Sharp

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9 Responses to 'I wrote this poem: Doodle'

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  1. Ken Armstrong said,

    on October 20th, 2008 at 9:42 pm

    Nice. What do you call a poem that goes round and round? This one could do that, the end segueing into the beginning.

    And *so* revealing to see the handwriting… dot every ‘i’, cross every ‘t’ and the spider has eight legs! Veerrry interesting.

    (I’m kidding obviously, I know nothing about handwriting and such)

    Ken Armstrong´s last post: Memories of Pants

  2. Catherine said,

    on October 20th, 2008 at 9:48 pm

    Ken, you counted the spider’s legs? And you’re insinuating that I might have slight anal-retentive tendencies?!!

  3. Jim Murdoch said,

    on October 21st, 2008 at 8:39 am

    You do like the word ‘which’ don’t you?

    Jim Murdoch´s last post: An interview with Claire Askew (part one)

  4. kouji said,

    on October 21st, 2008 at 2:19 pm

    quite nice. :) enjoyed reading it. :)

    kouji´s last post: blog action day 2008: philippine poverty haiku poems

  5. Susan said,

    on October 21st, 2008 at 4:27 pm

    I like the way it looks and I like the way it sounds! A nice bite-sized bit of writing-doodling, it reminds me of how candid snaps are so often appealing next to formal portraits, you know? I’d like to see it on the back of a chapbook, I think.

    Susan´s last post: Train of thought

  6. Susan Helene Gottfried said,

    on October 21st, 2008 at 10:21 pm

    I don’t know… it’s sort of quacking like a duck, ya know?

    But it’s charming and fun, and ultimately, it doesn’t matter what you call it so long as it makes you smile.

    Susan Helene Gottfried´s last post: Fiction Outtake: Rusty’s Place (Trevor’s Song Era)

  7. Laura said,

    on October 22nd, 2008 at 2:10 am

    I like it. Writing really does feel like that at times, when you look back at something you wrote. I often wonder if anyone can understand what I was trying to explain/ describe. Communication is never black and white.

    Laura´s last post: Seven Random Facts About Me

  8. Laura said,

    on October 22nd, 2008 at 2:32 am

    I featured your Doodle on Word Grrls. Gave a link back to your blog and the post here. Really liked what you wrote.

    Laura´s last post: Movable Type is Discouraging

  9. Catherine said,

    on October 22nd, 2008 at 11:27 am

    Jim – I don’t like the word ‘which’ as much as I appear to (although it appears a lot in my work-writing, from necessity) – which (grr) is why most of them got removed! The reason for the 3 in a row is just that I couldn’t decide whether to place that one at the end of the one line or the start of the next.

    Thanks, Kouji.

    Susan #1 -Ah, but whose chapbook? Not mine, that’s not something I aspire to.

    Susan #2 – It took me a couple of minutes to get what you meant, but you’re right – it looks like a duck, it quacks like a duck… :) But it was written in the same way as I doodle shapes, and it really was just that sort of idle twiddling.

    Laura – Cheers for the link on Word Grrls! I’ll check that out asap.