Featuring cherita!


March 31, 2019

Happy Haiga Day!

This one I wrote, but decided against using, in the recent Spark 40 challenge in which I partnered with Janet Buell.


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Text:

"You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there."

1 Kings 17:4

a believer, or a fool

trusts that a raven
would feed him

not many of us would
travel great distances
without packing snacks

March 29, 2019

National Poetry Month 2019


National Poetry Month is an annual celebration of poetry that takes place in April each year. And that means the 2019 celebration begins Monday! I will celebrate with Ekphrastic April again this year. For each day of the month I will post a work of art accompanied by a cherita* inspired by the particular work. This year I will be featuring artists of both sexes. (All the work is in the public domain to avoid issues of copyright.)

Tabatha Yeatts has gathered a collection of free reproducible poems for use in classrooms, libraries, etc. I am honored to have a small poem included. Read more about it here. Or find the PDF here.

You'll find many bloggers posting a month of poems or poetry. Michelle H. Barnes at Today's Little Ditty will feature Classroom Connections, which "will showcase recent poetry books—eclectic collections, lyrical picture books, and engaging verse novels—and how they can be used as mentor texts in the classroom."

Join in the fun of this poetry-filled month ahead!


*A cherita is a haiku-like poem of three stanzas that tells a "story." The first stanza is one line and sets the scene. Stanza two is two lines, stanza three is three lines. A cherita terbalik is a cherita with the order of the stanzas rearranged.

March 26, 2019

Haiku Sticky #496


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Text:

long anticipated

the report does not
assuage our angst

two years gone by
two years to go
it cannot end well

March 24, 2019

Happy Haiga Day!

Another cherita eliminated from my Spark response piece to Janet Buell's "Ravens in Snow."


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Text:

the power of poetry

who can hear "raven"
without hearing Poe?

forevermore
the avian victim of
well-crafted words

March 19, 2019

Haiku Sticky #495


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Text:

spiderlings scatter...
the casual housekeeper
changes her mind

March 17, 2019

Happy Haiga Day!

The photo was taken last weekend (March 10) and today is the last Sunday of winter. Let spring begin!


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Text:

late winter snow
fist-size snowflakes present
no challenge to spring



March 12, 2019

Haiku Sticky #494


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Text:

rain after
the sleet after the snow...
almost, almost spring

March 10, 2019

Happy Haiga Day!


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Text:

late snow
not enough to upset
waking denizens

March 5, 2019

Haiku Sticky #493


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Text:

waiting on the lamb
to make an appearance
...March snow

March 3, 2019

Happy Haiga Day!

My friend Janet Buell and I were partners in the 40th Spark challenge, which wrapped up on Friday. Janet took on the artist role, while I was the writer. You can see the inspiration piece Janet sent to me, "Ravens in Snow," and my response to it, here. The poem I sent to Janet, and her response to it can be found here.

I wrote a number of different poems over the ten days of the challenge and picked three to submit as my response. The following is a haiku that I didn't use. I paired it with a Japanese print from the late 1800s. The print is one of my all time favorite works of art! (I took the liberty of adding the iridescence.) You can find it here. I have several other cherita poems that didn't make the cut for the response, but which I will use for Happy Haiga Days in the future.


© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.

Text:

raven in snow
iridescence refashioned
by the sun