- Six Word Memoirs
- Three sons, eleven cats, and Yvonne.
Michael Govan
Foetus, son, brother, husband, father, vegetable.
Dick Hadfield
Conceived,implored, employed, adored, retired, ignored.
Joy MacKenzie
Slow lane. Fast lane. Hard shoulder.
Alex Hansen Today.
Bantam, Anglia, Midget, Alfa, Volvo Estate.
Neil Feldman.
Womb, Play, Learn, Work, Decline, Tomb.
Jacquie Smith
Start - programme - error - control - alt. - delete.
Alan
Battered ball-bearing traversing pinball machine.
Nancy Connolly
Unravelled career reknitted as baby blankets.
Clare Hobba
Started, farted, stood up, faced the wind.
Helen Eclair
Head in books, feet in flowers.
--Heather Thomson
Trust me, I did my best.
--Ray Kemp
An embroidered sampler, with some unpicking.
--Sian Martin
Dazed and confused? No. Existential angst.
--Chris Miles
I'm just happy to be here!
--Graham Marsh
Four Weddings, Three kids, then cancer.
--Gillian Johnson
Hasn't Been A Jane Austen Romance.
--Alexandra Lackey
Bored, so bored, so very bored.
--John Doyle
Run over twice, thankfully still alive.
--Trudi Evans
Aged child actress still seeking fame.
--Doolallydaisy
Married childhood sweetheart. Two kids. Content.
--Steve McMullen
Born London, lived elsewhere, died inside.
--Patric
I heard about these six word life stories on the BBC World Service while driving to Grandma Holt's house after dropping Peter at the SLC airport at 4am in March. I thought it was a neat idea, and wondered what I would have sent in. Fairly quickly, I came up with what I think is a pretty good summary of my life so far:
Tried to be happy. Finally succeeded.
I think these are beautiful. Some are so sad. Others sound contented, like writing this helped the make peace and put their lives in perspective. While most are not intended to be "poetry" they have the simple elegance of well chosen words that is characteristic of the best poetry. I think, reading these, that I have a better understanding of Haiku. Here we have a very prescribed form, an extremely limited amount of space, trying to express something much larger and essentially inexpressible in the first place.
What's your six word life story?
Karen, I love your six-word story, and I am so glad that IS your story. :-) I'll think about mine.
ReplyDeleteLove, Kathey
Here are six word short SF.
ReplyDeleteNov 2006 Wired Magazine
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html
"Did interesting stuff but became boring."
ReplyDelete"Came tall, big baby coming shortly."
ReplyDeleteThis is a fun idea!