Thursday, June 3, 2010

For Big Tent - If I Would

I Would if I Would

I would if I would
spend a season alone,
in a cabin on an island,
simple food delivered
once a week, no words
spoken, just words written
and sleep, long walks,
no clock, no need for me.
I would if I would spend
a season alone. I will not.

Victoria Hendricks
June 3, 2010

15 comments:

  1. There's a trick to getting in here. It's a good job I'm not a quitter!

    Lovely poem - the opposite of moon crazy, but a good idea, just the same!
    ViV

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  2. Victoria, I would like to do this too for about two weeks, I think; but I would take my clock and my Blackberry. LOL. It would be wonderful to have all of that uninterrupted time just to write and enjoy nature.

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  3. sounds heavenly! (don't give up on it but in the meantime, seclude yourself away when you write for the big tent prompts ... get little mini-seasons of solitude)

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  4. Oh wouldn't that be delighful!
    Pamela

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  5. It sounds utterly magical— you created the mood.

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  6. Instead of Marginalia the above comment should be the blog with ,y poems.

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  7. I would love this too! "no clock, no need for me"...yummy!

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  8. I'm another that doesn't need a clock. One day, maybe it will happen, even if you don't think so. A most enjoyable poem!

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  9. I could do this for a looooong time. "...no clock, no need for me..." love this! Thanks.

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  10. Lovely - I especially like the idea of having food delivered - to almost anywhere! :) Nice thoughts, here.

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  11. Mmmm. I have a similar dream. Well said, but a little sad, that last thought.

    (http://stoneymoss.org)

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  12. Hello Victoria...sorry you're not going to have a season alone, but things always change...how about three days? =)

    http://lindagoin.com/

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  13. You have written about what I have longed for!

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  14. Thanks for all the wonderful and empathetic comments. I do have pretty good secusion and peace time in my everyday life, and I have had long weekends completely alone - the big fantasy of a whole season seemed to match the propmt, something I imagine doiong but have never done and probably won't. It is such a big thing, though alluring, to disconnect for that long. I have built a very connected life, and part of me longs for that connection and willingly built and accepted it as much as another part of me craves solitude.

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  15. Great write - topic which many-a-writer has an opinion!

    I would love one long year...enough time to get really, really bored. For me, utter boredom breeds creativity (it's been quite some time since I've been given even a glimpse of boredom).

    - Dina

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