Haiku Sticky #409

After days and days and days of rain and dreariness, the sun is out! So, you'll have to excuse this sappy tanka!

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Text:

golden bright
the new green lit
by sunlight
songbirds vocalize
with a spring breeze

Happy Haiga Day!

Happy Mother's Day!

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Text:

day moon

she has overslept
yet again

she wipes the sleep
from her eyes but not
the memory

Poetry Friday--Not a Mass Poetry Festival Review

I had all intentions of posting a review of last weekend's Mass Poetry Festival, but I just couldn't get it together for this week. Maybe next week...

For today, I have a woodcut project poem from my ongoing series. The poems use woodcut illustrations found in Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century. I'm still playing with the cherita form. (Cherita is a mini-poem of three stanzas. The first is one line long and sets a scene. The second and third stanzas are two and three lines and tell a story.)

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Text:

mid-May afternoon

birds in territorial
disputes

the newly coupled
unaware there
are birds

Be sure to head over to A Teaching Life where Tara is the Round-Up hostess with the mostess.

Haiku Sticky #408

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Text:

not a sparrow
in sight yet every bush
cheeps

Happy Haiga Day!

Very late with this one! The photo was taken today, outside the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, MA, after attending a session at the Mass Poetry Festival. The poem was also written today!

You know things have gone too far when you question the motives of someone planting orange flowers. I have to learn to disassociate the color orange from one particular political person!

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Text:

orange pansies...
the color receives
a reprieve

Poetry Friday--Spark Postcard Exchange

The month of April saw another art postcard exchange organized by Amy Souza of SPARK: Art from Writing: Writing from Art. The exchange takes place between the quarterly SPARK challenges. (The next SPARK challenge will take place in May, I encourage you to participate!) For April I wrote two senryu (haiku format, but about human nature rather than Nature), and two cherita (a story told in three stanzas of 1, 2, 3 lines), and illustrated them digitally. In the past I decided upon a theme. In January, my theme was "tea," for October 2016, I used "October," last July, I used "endless summer heat." This time, I couldn't find a theme, so I wrote four unrelated poems. Three ended up closely related afterall!

Text:

April thoughts

they arrange to meet
in the park...

an antihistamine,
then his fancy can resume
its turning

Text:

he buys flowers
...she does not mention
it's the wrong day

Text:

morning sun

a spider's web
dripping with dew

only for a moment
does he hesitate
to brush it away

Text:

shasta daisy--
Fibonacci gets me to
"he loves me"

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I'm heading out to the Mass Poetry Festival in Salem, MA. I'll be three days immersed in poetry! If I manage to take legible notes, perhaps I'll do a festival review next Friday.

I may not be able to reply to comments left here until I return on Sunday. Jama's Alphabet Soup is hosting the first Round-Up in May, stop by, and then have a great weekend!

Haiku Sticky #407

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Text:

lilacs nearly ready...
their fragrance too heady
to last too long