NOT ANOTHER HAIKU... by (me!) sandra, tvgp #haiku
i find myself so fascinating sometimes... let me explain: week or so ago, i came across some website about famous poets and poems.. a list of the top 50 poems
very happy to report, Dr Maya Angelou, had the number 1 spot with phenonmenal woman
anyway...
i read all 50 poems. there was not 1 haiku among them. in fact. the word was not mentioned, and i didn't visit any other websites on the topic..
and yet.. the following morning, that's all i could think about.. haikus. wrote them all day..
to my children, my handsome prince, my enemies...
and then one to my mayonnaise
yeah.. i'm like.. how do i turn this haiku switch back off?
best foods mayonnaise
the edible adhesive
for my albacore
and then.. shared a couple with my co-workers, and they all jumped in..
turns out haikus are contagious..
left their haikus in my box at work, but when i return, i will post them here:
[got 'em]:
by roger:
a hammer sees it
the difficult bent nail
screw the worst of all
flowers bloom and die
hammers fly in our nightmares
nails run and laugh
an angry flower
can't be opened by hammers
only sun and breeze
by priscilla:
bible:a book of wisdom
building a frienship with God
to be read daily
and this collaborative effort by priscilla & myself on the topic of dating:
fresh introductions
two souls on a new journey
waiting to unfold
/see..
"..give me a topic.any topic.." my co-worker said "rain," i wrote
percipitation
gray sky's tears of joy
bursting into greens
wrote one about my place of work... and this morning.. one in comments on leonard's blog..
guess they're not all out of my system yet..
something irritatingly fun and challenging about them.. magnetic.
once you are presented with the basic (westernized) criteria: 3 lines:
5 syllables
7 syllables
5 syllables
it becomes almost impossible not to give it a go...
and i trust you will comment accordingly /she says with a smile.
SAVE THE DATE: The BIG Draw, Sat. May 9th, Downtown Pleasanton #haiku
I will be selling my mixed media art.. yes.. and also have contributed a haiku to Jill Vellinger to help raise funds for art in schools. I love this program she spearheads!
Take A Seat.
A few select poets contribute haikus or short poems or stanzas within longer poems..
those poems are provided to local artists who creatively paint chairs.. and include the poem..
and then the chairs are auctioned to help raise awareness and funds for art programs in schools.. a win/win/win if I've ever seen one!
my contribution for 2015:
She Smiles and He Dares.
In~between the broken hearts
God's grout sparkles gold.
-cant wait to see what the artist does.. Of course its pretty obvious I'm trying to inspire a mosaic here...
but I will have this same haiku available on my mosaic wine bottle decor.. cards, etc.
hope to see you there!
Speed of birthdays by (me!) ~topps #haiku @writeousmom
Accelebrations
compression algorithms
birthdays zip file by.....
at a faster pace;
plan into experience;
into memory.....
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.... speed of light... ...speed of sound.... ....speed of birthdays...
everyone old enough knows.. life goes by faster each passing year. mathematically it is easy to see:
circle representing your life lived to date 4 years old/out of 4 years old; 14 years out of 14 years.. each slice representing one year.. and they become smaller, closer together; smaller, closer together
so it doesn't just 'feel' like birthdays are arriving more quickly; they actually are.
-for this reason, i love playing with the words accelerate/celebrate; accelebrations. a perfect fit!
and, because i am aware we can't contain/retain/access every memory; occasions become bullet points/highlights only in our accessible memory.. i appreciate compression algorithms and zip files for analogies [remember long ago i shared how time is the best editor in the universe!]
and, i did intend to write "only two!" haiku's yesterday, but.. after bulk of my cleaning was done, -delighted in puzzling together two more..
i am having so much fun..
in Jesus name.. amen.
... and speaking of.. we've come across 'the history of the world in two hours' -which, write up there with darwin/origin of the species.. causes a certain recoiling internally for me..
my bullshit radar alarms.. and i look forward to pointing out just how:
FALSE * INCORRECT * UTTERLY FICTION many of these stories/theories are..
but i can internally 'feel' -a self-writeous attitude; a fleshly attitude, and so,
i do let that all boil.. via prayer, let the self-writeous/fleshly attitudes have their say, in my mind, unshared publicly, and via prayer, after those have bubbled up into vapors, and my thoughts/positions/attitude are more pure, if you will.. or 'in alignment' with God,
then i know i can write truths, clearly, kindly, respectfully minus the bad attitudes.
so i am working this through before i attack. /she says with a smile...
in Jesus name, amen.
"HAI... KU!" God bless you by (me!) sandra, tvgp #haiku
for my children:
God says I AM hereyou are my map and treasuremy daughter, my sonfor my enemies:
dearest enemiesnineteen heaps of burning coalsthis i pray for youromantic theme
my heart, hand respondto a haiku just for yousyllables of love
Pallet Painting/Haiku by (me!) sandra, tvgp #haiku #aldenlane
I just think the annual Art Under the Oaks event is -awesome! and love at this time of year, to point to the nursery and say to customers who ask...
"Art Under the Oaks... look out there... it's all that beauty, but then add, live music, wine tasting and lots of artists..." -and, my de-cluttering/moving project may have provided a clue to what year I was first introduced to alden lane, which I believe was at one of these annual events, because I found a small paper flyer from 2008.
2017 SAVE THE DATE: July 15th & 16th, 11am-4pm
If we too move to Idaho... #haiku
i will gather people, young and old, and i will take them on haiku hikes. -black bay park. we will marvel at all of God's gorgeous landscape, trees, sky, wild flowers, the lake, rocks...
we will learn together about each... about everything our eyes and hands land on. and i will encourage the best haikus out of people who have never even heard the word; who have never even imagined in a million years that they would read a poem, let alone author one..
and for a bit there, i was saying to friends and family, "if we moved to Idaho I would immediately become a naturalist and lead hikes..."
and then i was looking up the word -naturalist.. doing a little reading.. because, Lord only knows how many words I employ incorrectly.. connotation; denotation.. exaggeration...
but the name 'darwin' kept coming up.. really? one of the world's best and most famous 'naturalists'
-to me the word naturalist is synonymous with Christian practically.. every living thing evidence of and glorifying God's name..
something inside me always recoils when i hear his name.. perhaps unjustifiably; i don't know..
i know i am not a fan whatsoever of that icon depicting the so called 'evolution' of man.
-and sometimes we hold on to one thing so tight with both hands that we don't even know what would happen if we set it down and looked closer at it..
i believe..
i believe if i were to read his work.. point out what i have learned from my life experiences, and layer them together
well, i do believe I feel him smiling and winking at me write now, this very moment -from heaven.
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it is not either/or; it is and. /where have i heard that before? i say with a big, tired smile..
now i lay us down to sleep; i pray the Lord our souls you'll keep
and when we wake from this nights rest; i pray you'll help us be our best
in Jesus name, -amen.
Why On Earth Would We Do That!? (sexy! & topps!) #haiku #courage #tattoo @writeousmom
God's healing processHeart searches for safe landing
every once in a while, someone will ask us if we go to church
-when our children were young, and post divorce for each of us, individually;
we brought our children and attended church on sundays.
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"and do you know what sexy?" i said with a smile,
"can't you feel God smiling? -because, now..
retired and free, getting to choose how we spend time, anyway we want..
look what we do!
we freely choose to start every. single. day with church tv and prayer
and we don't get paid for it..
we are not obligated to do it..
we are under no social pressure to be seen..
utterly, completely, freely
we do this. -that's pretty awesome"
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for anyone who might be going to church because they think they 'have' to..
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and for our young people, 20's - 40's; i sure do recommend stevenfurtick.com
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and every once in an even greater while, someone will ask about my tattoo
i've already written, so to avoid repetitiveness will skip to:
attitude adjustments along the way
initially when someone expressed hating it, i would get such a fleshly rise out of
letting them go on and on, and then, after they exhausted themselves,
i would summon my most polite tone under the circumstance and say with a smile, something like,
"yes.. thank you for sharing. -but just so you know,
your liking it, was not part of my criteria for getting it."
and truth be told,
the same is true, for when someone paid my tattoo high compliments.
your compliments are not part of my criteria.. but i never responded that way to compliments;
just said, "thank you"
now, if someone shares hate or disgust, i just say, "yeah, tattoos aren't for everybody..."
and won't bullet point here the evolution of when/how i changed my answers
over the years to the question, 'what does it stand for'
rather i'll go straight to the original and authentic answer
it stands for courage.
you can do your own research here if you'd like..
everything Dr Maya Angelou had to say about courage..
and i would later learn that famous philosophers in history
had the same thing to say about courage many years prior
[was she validating? borrowing/sharing what she learned?]
but,
wow! it seems to fit even better now, at 56
than it did, when i initially got my tattoo at age 40
because
aren't you blessed, lucky, fortunate if you get to navigate life with -confidence-
because i continue to primarily navigate with courage.
courage, is not the absence of fear, concerns, etc.
it is moving forward despite fears, concerns
and
i do directly rely on and credit the holy spirit for my courage.
"Thank You Jesus! ~amen."
#haiku #warriors @writeousmom by (me!) ~topps
Kissing on trophy
electrifies dub nation
bring on our parade!
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grateful to witness master level basketball players claim
a hard earned, well deserved victory
"Congratulations!"
you are so exciting to watch!!
moves we never seen
magical, mystical team
championship memes
"oh no... toggle switched on..." for (me!) ~sandra, tvgp #haiku
You're Going To Do Great Things! (jack!) i love you ~writeousmom
with end goal in mind
pressing through, moving forward
skill sets for "success!"
Washington State Grad
Cougar Friends & Family
Set New Goals, and "Go!"
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#WSU #cougs #haiku
#warriors #butteamerica #haiku @writeousmom
family and friends
warriors in our own write
the real victory
#warriors #haiku by (me!) ~topps @writeousmom
victory mindset
patient determination
NBA finals
#filoli #haiku @writeousmom #mothersday
You are a fresh bloom
An explosion of color
FIght, LOve, LIve ~anew
[personal goal of writing 100 more haikus by end of 2022]
#mothersday
#haiku #warriors @writeousmom
clock ticking, high stakes
3 pointers from outer space
blue & gold greatness
Mermaid Bliss summer 2022 yard art by (sexy! & topps!) #bliss #haiku @writeousmom
public "thank you!" to solomon, AKA pops, for the drone shot!! -awesome
#headframespirits #haiku #butteamerica #itsabigdamndeal @writeousmom AKA ~topps
kelley old fashioned
mining history through a straw
grain and headframe "cheers!"
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/often developers/capitalists are demonized in books, movies, tv series..
the way popular yellowstone series being one of many examples..
but,
my prayer.. having just re-explored butte montana
-being able to combine my imagination with actual pictures; and 'see' butte in its glory days
[glory being very relative of course..]
getting to see all those historic gorgeous brick (of many colors) buildings..
intriguing, unique, beautiful architecture in every direction, uptown
snow capped mountains in the background
those headframes! magnificent, iconic sculptures connecting each new generation with
the lives that paved and mined and lit the way
our lady of the rockies!
the folk festival!
how butte sits between yellowstone and glacier national park!
i pray,
i pray, in Jesus name..
for investors!
that this once glorious, prosperous, 'richest hill on earth'
can attract the write people
who have both the vision and resources
to restore, and rebuild
remake, reimagine
butte
into a remarkable place to live
and visit.
it looks like a gold mine to me!
#investors #butteamerica #amen
#haiku #warriors @writeousmom by (me!) ~topps
steph carried some games
greats step up to carry steph
synergy of champs
don't miss the magicunbelievable baskets
warriors on fire!
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