tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945Thu, 23 May 2013 12:46:46 +0000Hogarth School seriesoriginal poemhaikuHaiku StickysenryuekphrasisHappy Haiga Dayhaibunpoehistrytankahaigahttp://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)Blogger700125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-2163165473067927822Tue, 21 May 2013 10:11:00 +00002013-05-21T06:11:00.478-04:00Haiku Stickyhaiku © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2013/05/haiku-sticky-202.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-4791183800999985770Sun, 19 May 2013 10:00:00 +00002013-05-19T06:00:03.271-04:00Hogarth School serieshaigaHappy Haiga Day © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. Note: this photo was taken on a weekend. Mary Murphy, the rat terrier, does not attend school!http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2013/05/happy-haiga-day_19.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-1925415795352786070Fri, 17 May 2013 04:01:00 +00002013-05-19T11:18:07.851-04:00 You are officially invited to join the Secret Society of Enjambment. The only requirements are: 1. you write poetry; 2. you don't know if you're enjambing correctly. (You certainly can't be doing it right since enjamb isn't a real word according to Dictionary.com "No results found for enjamb: Did you mean encamp?"); 3. you believe that the poetry mumbo-jumbo you learned in college English is http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2013/05/poetry-friday-secret-society-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-501941469770865204Tue, 14 May 2013 10:21:00 +00002013-05-14T06:21:00.421-04:00Haiku Stickyhaiku© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2013/05/haiku-sticky-201.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-6135386195566710605Sun, 12 May 2013 10:02:00 +00002013-05-12T06:02:00.024-04:00original poemHappy Haiga DayAnother short poem inspired by the recent Monadnock Pastoral Poets retreat I attended last weekend. © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. Click on the image to enlarge it. http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2013/05/happy-haiga-day_12.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-6760251435601254115Fri, 10 May 2013 04:01:00 +00002013-05-10T08:39:00.725-04:00original poemhaigaLast weekend I attended the Monadnock Pastoral Poets retreat held at the beautiful Barbara C. Harris Camp and Conference Center in Greenfield, NH. It was a great time! I had some fears about attending since I'd never had my poetry "workshopped" before, and I wasn't sure what to expect. I needn't have been afraid. My assigned group and mentors were welcoming and supportive--just like my good http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2013/05/poetry-friday-poetry-retreat-inspired.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-8485629850214737842Tue, 07 May 2013 10:37:00 +00002013-05-07T15:14:14.267-04:00Haiku Stickyhaiku © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2013/05/haiku-sticky-200.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-433267820092724785Sun, 05 May 2013 09:51:00 +00002013-05-05T05:51:00.454-04:00haigaHappy Haiga Day © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. Photo, edited by Diane Mayr, by unknown photographer, in public domain. http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2013/05/happy-haiga-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-660750978904732148Fri, 03 May 2013 04:01:00 +00002013-05-03T00:01:01.184-04:00 National Poetry Month has come and gone. It's time to sit back a little, and let our minds rest from the challenges we set up for ourselves last month. So, for today, I'm going to share a favorite cat poem: The Cat As Cat by Denise Levertov The cat on my bosom sleeping and purring --fur-petalled chrysanthemum, squirrel-killer-- is a metaphor only if I force him to be one, looking too long http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2013/05/poetry-friday-favorite.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-6530428491873643318Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:53:00 +00002013-04-30T07:37:32.786-04:00Haiku Stickyhaiku © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. The forsythia are a little late this year, but they sure make up for it with their brilliance! I'd prefer "an abundance," but those extra two letters make the phrase not fit on one line--one of the limitations of the Superstickies program is you can't fiddle with font size.http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2013/04/haiku-sticky-199.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-4034321462396014758Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:02:00 +00002013-05-06T08:04:57.770-04:00original poemekphrasis© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. "Take One" by Gilbert Gaul courtesy The Athenaeum. Click on image to enlarge. Although the painting "Take One," by American artist, [William] Gilbert Gaul, painted circa 1881, is full of flowers, the feeling I get from the painting is more dark. I thought perhaps there was a storm coming. I wrote the poem as it appears here, using the title as my launching http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2013/04/npm-ekphrastic-poem-5.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-3770405410969050152Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:00:00 +00002013-04-28T06:00:05.678-04:00Hogarth School serieshaigaHappy Haiga Day © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2013/04/happy-haiga-day_28.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-462237672909471645Fri, 26 Apr 2013 04:01:00 +00002013-04-26T00:01:00.527-04:00tankahaigaFor today, a tanka. I had been working on another poem that sort of went bust--it just didn't make sense. Sometimes those things happen. Rather than pursue it further, I used the thorns that were supposed to be meaningful in the first poem (and weren't), and put them into this tanka. If nothing else, it's very green! © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. Laura Purdie Salas is the host for http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2013/04/poetry-friday-tanka.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-4037568899633292234Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:01:00 +00002013-04-25T00:01:01.197-04:00 The Progressive Poem was conceived of by Irene Latham, instituted during last year's National Poetry Month, and now can be officially called "an annual event." This year's poem began on April 1 at The Poem Farm. Today, I'm contributing my line to the 2013 Progressive Poem, and the pressure is on! My job is to write the first line of the concluding stanza. What direction should it go? http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2013/04/progressing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-6080658044083785764Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:00:00 +00002013-04-23T06:00:15.139-04:00Haiku Stickyhaiku © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2013/04/haiku-sticky-198.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-2174177657880026321Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:32:00 +00002013-05-06T08:05:37.938-04:00original poemekphrasis Click on the image to make it larger. © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. Painting by Maurice Prendergast (1895) courtesy The Athenaeum. The artist, Maurice Prendergast was raised near Boston, and many of his works depict Boston area locales. I'm not sure what circus this painting represents, but a quick search showed me that the McCart's Circus was in Boston in December, 1894, and the http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2013/04/npm-ekphrastic-poem-4.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-7857621282444877952Sun, 21 Apr 2013 10:02:00 +00002013-04-21T06:02:00.230-04:00haigaHappy Haiga Day © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. 1892 lithograph courtesy Library of Congress.http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2013/04/happy-haiga-day_21.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-2833508959594919841Sat, 20 Apr 2013 04:04:00 +00002013-04-20T00:04:00.027-04:00haigaHappy Haiga DayThere's no need to explain this! © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. With warm thoughts for people in the Boston area who've come through a harrowing week.http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2013/04/happy-haiga-day-on-saturday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-9052853514175542416Fri, 19 Apr 2013 04:01:00 +00002013-04-19T00:01:00.237-04:00It's been a sad week, especially for those of us who live in the Boston area. Boston has always been a city full of life, but how quickly that changed on Monday. I don't wish to dwell on the subject, I just want to offer, and to take, comfort from this poem by Wendell Berry: The Wish to Be Generous All that I serve will die, all my delights, the flesh kindled from my flesh, garden and field, http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2013/04/poetry-friday-wish-to-be-generous.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-6654489803275893312Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:00:00 +00002013-04-16T07:50:15.988-04:00Haiku Stickyhaiku © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. At the end of the race, goodness and justice will be victorious. My thoughts are with the victims of yesterday's savage act, and for us all.http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2013/04/haiku-sticky-197.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-1529436474699608283Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:00:00 +00002013-04-15T06:00:00.188-04:00original poemPlease click on the image to view it larger. © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. "The Flower Arranger" by Mary Bradish Titcomb, courtesy The Athenaeum. Like Ricky Ricardo, I've got a little 'splainin' to do with this one! First, about the artist: Mary Bradish Titcomb was born 1858 in Windham, NH, the town in which I work. I wrote a profile of Titcomb for Women of the Granite State from http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2013/04/npm-ekphrastic-poem-3.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-5652685003068120033Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:03:00 +00002013-04-14T06:03:00.836-04:00haigaHappy Haiga Day © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2013/04/happy-haiga-day_14.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-7210662465313968313Fri, 12 Apr 2013 04:01:00 +00002013-04-13T07:37:01.670-04:00original poemLast Friday I shared a few baseball haiku. The following poem I originally wrote in June 2008. Like my baseball haiku, it has less to do with the game of baseball than with the ballpark experience. Minor League Ballpark With insulated bag across his shoulder he leans against the boards twirling tossing frozen lemonade cups his slightly abrasive patter targets only those who know a sense ofhttp://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2013/04/poetry-friday-round-up-is-here.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-1724212954083509856Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +00002013-04-11T20:00:01.062-04:00 The Round-Up will be here. You're invited to post your links tonight. I know there are some of you who need to hurry off to work in the morning, so posting your link tonight will give you a little more time for coffee! I'm taking the day off from work to devote myself to poetry-loving bloggers and readers--I'm also planning on having several cups of coffee! http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2013/04/its-almost-poetry-friday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-3589424875747923938Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:24:00 +00002013-04-09T07:44:21.713-04:00Haiku Stickyhaiku © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2013/04/haiku-sticky-196_9.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)5