Haiku Sticky #395

I'll bet you knows someone who may be affected by the recent changes in immigration policy--you just may not realize it.

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Happy Haiga Day!

Since the inauguration, I've joined a resistance movement of sorts--poets! The following was written in response to a challenge issued to a group (on Facebook) organized by Laura Shovan. We had to use these ten words, taken from a New York Times article, in a poem.

rant
ignore
directly
answering
simple
volume
impossible
impact
respond
communicate

I only managed to use eight, but who's counting...

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Text:

T's Pussycat Cheer & Chant Squad
Rehearse for the Big Game:
Team Trump vs. the Press Corps


Two, four, six, eight.
We don't wanna communicate.

Hey, hey, hey!
It's so simple!
On alternative facts
We never skimple.

In your reports you're so uncivil.
In response, we'll give you drivel.

We never
We never
Answer you directly. [repeat chant 3X]

You might be good at writing
And answering with facts
But when it comes to briefings
You'd better watch your back!

We will, we will
Rant-at-you! [stomp, stomp...stomp, stomp]
We will, we will
Rant-at-you! [stomp, stomp...stomp, stomp]

Raise the volume, Buttercup!
Tell the press they'd better shut up!

Hey, hey
Ho, ho
If we ignore ya
Will you go? [repeat chant 2X]

Hey, hey, ho, ho, we ignored you
NOW GO!

Poetry Friday--"women's march 2017"

I've been a bit distracted lately and thought about skipping Poetry Friday this week, then a line popped into my head and it turned into a poem. (Funny thing, that original line is no longer there!)

© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. Remarkably, the photo of the suffragists picketing the White House was taken on January 26, 1917! The photo of the marchers in Boston was taken by me on Saturday, January 21.

Text:

women's march 2017


again we march--
a century after
the obdurate
the brave

suffragists marched
for the right to vote

again we march--
50 years after
the defiant
the resolute

feminists marched
for equal rights

again we march
and again we'll
march--

until fear is defunct

and there are no -ists
just humans


Head over to Beyond LiteracyLink where Carol is hosting the Round-Up this week.

Haiku Sticky #394

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Text:

cardinals and jays
a welcomed distraction
...snow continues

Happy Haiga Day!

The Women's March, which took place in Boston, yesterday, was inspiring in its numbers, its unity of purpose, and its hopefulness. From my Facebook friends, all over the country, came similar reports.

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Text:

January sun...
the drakaina awakens
from a long sleep

Poetry Friday--A New Project!

Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century With Facsimiles, Notes, and Introduction by John Ashton (1882) was a lucky find for me at Open Library. I spent a number of hours looking through it, and discovered some great woodcut illustrations. I was inspired to use the illustrations and pair them with poems. This has resulted in a number of haiga (haiku/senryu with illustrations) and illustrated short poems. I'll be sharing them over the next few months, mostly on Sundays, which are Happy Haiga Day! here at Random Noodling.

This first one is a senryu written right after Christmas and is based upon a real incident from Christmas Day.

In Chap-Books, I came across The History of Sir Richard Whittington Thrice Lord Mayor of London. The cat in the illustration below, looked more dog-like to me and I thought it would work well with my poem.

[Note: you may know the legend of "Dick Whittington and His Cat," which was the subject of children's books by Robert Lawson (1949), Marcia Brown (1988), and Margaret Hodges (2006).]

© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. Illustration source, click here.

Text:

first time
meeting the family
he brings his dog


Here's another:

© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. Illustration source, click here.

Text:

Mephisto
the crowd still expects
he'll remove his mask

Violet Nesdoly | Poems is this week's Poetry Friday hostess. Do stop by.

Haiku Sticky #393

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