“Chugging Along”
Chugging Along
Chug chug chug chug ka-ching ching!
Chug chug chug badda bing bing!
Chug chug chug chug clang clang!
Chug chug chug chug screeeech—bang!
Chu…chu… chug badda biii—-ing BOOM!
Ch…ch….chu…..chu…change.
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Here’s my (sort of) poem for the dVerse Poets Pub Poetics Prompt on change (and turns), hosted by the wonderful Claudia Schoenfeld. I am not so great at making changes until…well, there seems to be no other choice!
Happy New Year’s weekend all! I am in the country with much snow and, thank goodness, a working furnace.
(p.s. as always, all rights are reserved to visual images and text on my blog. I would LOVE people to use my pics, but please ask permission and cite!)
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December 29, 2012 at 3:29 pm
haha..so cool….that is an image that will stay in my mind for the rest of my life probably….love it k.
December 29, 2012 at 3:30 pm
Thanks, Claudia.
December 29, 2012 at 3:30 pm
and i mean both….the pic and your words…smiles
December 29, 2012 at 3:32 pm
Thanks – you are always so kind. k.
December 29, 2012 at 3:32 pm
Oh, I love that image! What fun! It does seem that change chugs along somehow, like it or not! So glad you now have a working furnace.
December 29, 2012 at 3:45 pm
hahaha very nice….the train keeps a rollin all night long….love the sounds k…and the pic is very cool….at times though i wonder who is driving the train (high on cocaine) casey jone you better watch your speed….smiles.
December 29, 2012 at 4:10 pm
big cheers to a working furnace! this is a wonderful, short and well sounded poem. I was smiling while following it on its clear path. there is nothing like a clear path for change. I often get caught in the muddle of it. Happy New Year. Your work shines, k.
December 29, 2012 at 7:09 pm
Thanks so much, Jane. k.
December 29, 2012 at 4:30 pm
this is totally cool, and the rhythm I’m hearing is that of a conga line dance !! whoopee! Happy New Year !! ~ R
December 29, 2012 at 4:38 pm
Love this! Happy New Year to you, Karin!
December 29, 2012 at 4:42 pm
Haha… sometimes it does take a train wreck to force us to change. Happy New Year!
December 29, 2012 at 5:42 pm
Fun sounds K, I am chugging along with you ~ Well its cold where I am so I can relate to the working furnace, a must in any household ~
Happy New Year ~
December 29, 2012 at 7:14 pm
You too, Grace, thanks! k.
December 29, 2012 at 6:15 pm
This is awesome! It’s purely onomatopoeic yet has such depth to it. In fact it’s all the more arresting because you made it work based on sounds of a train. Superbly experimental. You throw us the entire situation/problematic we’re faced with in what might seem like text from a children’s book at first (nicely illustrated to that effect too). Brilliant.
December 29, 2012 at 7:03 pm
Ha. You are very kind, Luke. My illustrations always look a bit like they are from a children’s book (ha!), but I agree that it does sort of work here. Thanks. k.
December 29, 2012 at 7:44 pm
Ch, ch, ch, chuffing great pic at the top of your poem k. 🙂
December 29, 2012 at 7:51 pm
Ha. Thanks, Polly. I “draw/paint” them on the iPad with the Brushes App, and then, in this case, adapt a bit with the Photogene App (also on the iPad.) Brushes is my favorite painting app, and photogene is really cool also. I also use a stylus instead of my finger, which I find is much easier to manipulate. I miss doing real painting which I do much less since getting the iPad – but I don’t think I’d have so much time for it anyway, since I don’t have a real studio set-up. I don’t know why I went through all that explanation, but it is a lot of fun that anyone with iphone or ipad might like to try. k.
December 29, 2012 at 7:53 pm
Wonderful, k. I have the Brushes app and will look out for the Photogene App as I’m not familiar with it. I love your illustrations, the elephant is my most favourite, he’s gorgeous 🙂
December 29, 2012 at 8:01 pm
That’s great… very clever!
December 29, 2012 at 8:18 pm
… change can be a loud thing
December 29, 2012 at 9:00 pm
Love your playful sounds and image. I’m out in the country snow with the rain track close enough to rattle the windows when it chugs by. But I love it’
December 29, 2012 at 9:19 pm
ch-choo-choo-changes…(turn and face the train) choo choo changes….
December 29, 2012 at 9:39 pm
Good idea (re facing the train)! Not something I’m great at, but getting better! k.
December 29, 2012 at 9:40 pm
Actually – I realize now that a little choo choo choose might have worked quite well here. k.
December 29, 2012 at 9:43 pm
Oh well done, Karin! I can see this is going to be my favourite poem – so much is in the attitude, isn’t it?
December 29, 2012 at 9:48 pm
Yes – thanks so much, Ruth. Happy New Year to you! k.
December 29, 2012 at 10:06 pm
Change is a lot like a train–many cars, many curves, and who ever really pulls that cord that’s supposed to stop it in real life? No, we just let it carry us to wherever we get off. Enjoy the snow and the warmth, k. This was fun.
December 29, 2012 at 10:07 pm
Ha! It’s a crime to pull that cord in New York! Ha. Take care, k.
December 29, 2012 at 10:40 pm
Not so easy to make noises into such a fun sing-song-y verse. Maybe I can chug, chug, chug my way into some new changes.
December 29, 2012 at 10:44 pm
I enjoyed this! It illustrates change perfectly.
December 30, 2012 at 2:00 am
..ha.. playful..playful.. i can go with it unlimitedly… oddly affecting… happy new year.. smiles..
December 30, 2012 at 4:55 am
I don’t know whether to envy you or feel sorry for you. Hope it turns out a weekend to envy for you. Happy New Year.
December 30, 2012 at 7:08 am
love your art….and we certainly universally do just that, don’t we..keep on chugging?
December 30, 2012 at 8:11 am
Very nice New Years image — the train still moves on continues tracks chugging along
December 30, 2012 at 5:21 pm
Wheeeeee ccccccccrash BOOM
cha cha cha
Happy New Year
December 30, 2012 at 6:23 pm
Fun, Karin. Great life metaphor. We’re just a mile or so from the track as trains roll in along the Truckee river from Sacramento. I can stop and listen to life chugging along many times a day. (and night).
December 30, 2012 at 6:25 pm
Ha! Well, I take a lot of trains. k.
December 30, 2012 at 6:26 pm
But the trains I take mainly roar and screech! k.
December 31, 2012 at 9:18 am
Hey! It’s an elephant morphing into a train on a track morphing into that animal who persists . . . my favorite children’s book re-narrated in its own language. Thank you, K, for thoughts and images all year long. Happy New Year.
December 31, 2012 at 9:32 am
Thanks so much, Susan. k.
January 1, 2013 at 4:51 am
Karin, apologies its taken me so log to get here & happy new year! this is SO cool…and its not a ‘sort of’ poem, it IS a poem!! and its awesome…wish i could think about something so creatively. Like the sentiment as well….sometimes we keep travelling on the same path until something breaks or hits us and we HAVE to change, this will be stuck in my head ALL day…love it
January 1, 2013 at 4:51 am
the picture is awesome too!
January 1, 2013 at 7:46 am
Thanks so much, Stu. No apologies necessary! k.