A Story Within

Summary

Trisha Traughber presents a piece of calligramme poetry titled "A Story Within," reflecting on the surreal nature of reality and the power of art to express internal truths.

Abstract

The web content showcases Trisha Traughber's calligramme poem "A Story Within," which poetically describes a child's interaction with a book, symbolizing the layers of stories that exist within our world and within ourselves. The poem is accompanied by two images that visually represent the concept of nested narratives. Traughber expresses her fascination with Surrealism and its relevance in questioning reality, especially in the context of post-World War I and contemporary times. She encourages readers to engage with calligrammes and share their creations, suggesting that art offers a more profound understanding of the world than news stories. The piece concludes with an invitation to submit artistic experiments to "Vagabond

A Story Within

Calligramme poetry

A Story Within by Trisha Traughber 2020

Fields of wheat thrashing, floating adrift with butterflies tender touch. Small boy with a giant book a world within a world reach for words that contain me, reading, and kisses, A story within a story within…

A Story Within by Trisha Traughber 2020

This is a fun experiment with Calligrammes — here’s a description in French. Here’s one in English. I have the Surrealists on the brain as we’re examining them in the writing group I run…and I love the way they cropped up at such a time when reality was something to be questioned — after the first World War. I’m constantly thinking that our current reality is also to be questioned…that the dreamlike, the emotional, the internal seems more real than the ‘stories’ that we can find on the news. But no matter…art is always a beautiful way to approach and to know this world.

If you create one of these, please tag me in. I’d love to see it. And you can definitely submit one to Vagabond Voices — this is a place for your experiments, for your first ventures, for uncharted territory.

Thanks for reading,