I sit in my car fervently tapping away on my phone. It’s where I write articles, poems and stories- in total freedom. It’s where I create a doorway -of my choosing – into another world. In this world I’m The Creator. Characters live and die by the swipe of my hand. Their very well-being is dependant on my mood.
Why do I do this? Because I can!
The cost of my scribbling is Time. I wrestle it constantly -to make it stop… to slow it down before I join the real world.
I have no dominion over it here-as in the ‘other world’.
I tell all my characters to take a break. The kids are calling… they need me.
But I’ll be back – to rule again.
writing in springtime
along outstretched days
a story unfolds
©Vivian Zems
Today Björn hosts haibun Monday and the topic is freedom at dVerse. He would like us to think of aspects of freedom and how it also can intrude on other people’s freedom.
June 11, 2018 at 9:07 pm
I wondered where you took your time to write… between everything else those glimpses of freedom for you… wonderful
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June 11, 2018 at 9:40 pm
Thanks Björn!
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June 11, 2018 at 11:06 pm
I understand this feeling. I live it. Beautiful Haibun.
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June 12, 2018 at 12:18 am
Thank you!
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June 11, 2018 at 11:30 pm
Good for you to take the time and scribble away~ Don’t you love it when you are The Creator?
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June 12, 2018 at 12:18 am
Aaah!….such power 🙂
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June 12, 2018 at 12:09 am
I like the way you have captured the passionate freedom of pure creativity.
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June 12, 2018 at 12:19 am
Thanks, Suzanne 🙂
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June 12, 2018 at 12:56 am
I like that coming back to rule again.
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June 12, 2018 at 1:03 am
Grab the moment you can! I love how you articulate the freedom in creating!
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June 12, 2018 at 5:48 pm
Thanks Frank!
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June 12, 2018 at 1:36 am
Lovely story; for most of us our writing is kind of a salvation; like your take on it. I need to be at my desk alone to tickle the Muse
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June 12, 2018 at 5:48 pm
Thanks Glenn..my desk is surrounded by kids and the dog!
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June 12, 2018 at 1:44 am
Lovely and can definitely relate to this. Never feels like their is enough time to write.
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June 12, 2018 at 5:46 pm
We end up having to make it out of the ether!
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June 12, 2018 at 1:50 am
Lovely writing – finding time is indeed freedom!
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June 12, 2018 at 5:49 pm
Indeed!
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June 12, 2018 at 1:57 am
So true! If only we could stop time – just long enough to get our ideas on page.
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June 12, 2018 at 5:46 pm
That would be the best!
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June 12, 2018 at 6:27 am
I like this. I’m impressed that you are so persistent in your writing (says the woman who is up at 6 to do her dVerse round before the house wakes up), and I like the fact that you create spaces in your day when you can feel free.
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June 12, 2018 at 7:54 am
Indeed…thanks Sarah!
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June 12, 2018 at 6:49 am
Beautifully captured your deliberate act to find time to write. Brilliant!
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June 12, 2018 at 7:54 am
Thanks, Khaya!
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June 12, 2018 at 7:31 am
There’s truth in the saying that a busy woman always finds time! Many years ago, that was me, but I wrote in notebooks on trains, the Underground and buses. Freedom in your car – as good a place as any and a car is a little sanctuary when you’re alone. I love the way you describe the power of writing, Viv!
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June 12, 2018 at 7:52 am
Thanks Kim….I love that saying about a busy woman.
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June 13, 2018 at 12:11 am
So true!
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June 14, 2018 at 12:05 am
Ironic
How
Freedom
Turns into
Prison
unless
we Visit PriSon
Occasionally at Least..:)
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