tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:10:11 +0000original poemhaikuHaiku StickyHappy Haiga Dayhaibunpoehistrytankahaigaillustrated poehistryhttp://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)Blogger476125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-5343320248386998518Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:01:00 +00002012-01-27T00:01:02.935-05:00I'm aging rapidly and one of problems with aging is having to get up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom. Sometimes I can almost make it through the night, but there are those times when I'm up at 5:30 or 6:00 and getting back to sleep for the final hour just isn't happening! So, I can really relate to this poem by Dick Davis:As soon as you wake they come blundering in    Like http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2012/01/poetry-friday-6-am-thoughts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-5561568382619081294Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +00002012-01-24T06:00:05.842-05:00Haiku Stickyhaiku© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2012/01/haiku-sticky-133.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-7394902557977149263Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:45:00 +00002012-01-22T09:50:13.694-05:00haigaHappy Haiga Day© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. Image courtesy Library of Congress.http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2012/01/happy-haiga-day_22.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-8991803560425928994Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:01:00 +00002012-01-20T00:01:03.702-05:00haikuLast week, along with a rant, I posted several haiku that were inspired by Emily Dickinson's poems. I had such a good time with those, I decided to look for more haiku hiding within her words.DICKINSONAt half-past three a single bird Unto a silent sky Propounded but a single term Of cautious melody.HAIKUa single trillbreaches my dream...summer dawnDICKINSONAn awful tempest mashed the air, The http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2012/01/poetry-friday-dickinson-inspiration.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-5638577180482622067Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:42:00 +00002012-01-17T05:42:00.609-05:00Haiku Stickyhaiku© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. Winter is really here--stay warm!http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2012/01/haiku-sticky-132.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-1436456399976619501Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:07:00 +00002012-01-15T09:15:19.394-05:00haigaHappy Haiga Day© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2012/01/happy-haiga-day_15.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-7235926952589146870Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:01:00 +00002012-01-13T00:01:04.698-05:00haikuI have a Google Alert set up for the term "haiku," and as a result I get many interesting or odd links in my inbox. Some have to do with the Maui town of Haiku in Hawaii--everything from obituaries to announcements of Unified Field Theory seminars. Others have to do with the Haiku operating system for computers. Some lucky days I get links for haiku poetry! Over the past two weeks I found http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2012/01/yet-another-haiku-miss.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-1495795924176548971Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:05:00 +00002012-01-10T06:05:00.640-05:00Haiku Stickyhaiku© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2012/01/haiku-sticky-131.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-3209672515562597064Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:13:00 +00002012-01-08T06:13:00.917-05:00haigaHappy Haiga DayStill celebrating moving into the year of the Dragon!© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. Photo courtesy Library of Congress.http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2012/01/happy-haiga-day_08.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-7153390900734674423Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:01:00 +00002012-01-06T00:01:05.170-05:00original poemGot a few hours to kill? If so, then head over to OEDILF: The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form. The goal of the OEDLIF "is to write at least one limerick for each meaning of each and every word in the English language." Since the source of the words is the massive Oxford English Dictionary, the limerictionary isn't projected to be completed until 2039! What an undertaking! http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2012/01/poetry-friday-oedilf.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-334326379134965867Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:51:00 +00002012-01-03T05:51:00.831-05:00Haiku Stickyhaiku© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. A slightly different version first appeared on Lunch Break's "The Twelve Days of Christmas 2011-12" celebration. The haiku was my first blog comment of the new year; the word "first" is a word symbol for New Year's.http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2012/01/haiku-sticky-130.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-8936904020127987639Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:14:00 +00002012-01-01T06:14:00.376-05:00haigaHappy Haiga Day© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2012/01/happy-haiga-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-125607878122083736Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:01:00 +00002011-12-30T00:01:00.948-05:00haigaThis is my third year participating in a nengajyou, a Japanese style New Year's card exchange. I wrote about my first two experiences here and here. This year I sent cards to multiple recipients in 12 states, D.C., India, Romania, United Kingdom, Ireland, Trinidad & Tobago, and Canada!The past two years I have used photos of my cat and my son's rabbit* to illustrate the card. The animals were http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2011/12/poetry-friday-akemashite-omedetou.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-3261999519481180599Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:50:00 +00002011-12-27T07:52:53.013-05:00Haiku Stickyhaiku© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2011/12/haiku-sticky-129.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-4187061130854565912Sun, 25 Dec 2011 05:05:00 +00002011-12-25T00:05:01.320-05:00haigaHappy Haiga Day© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. Photo courtesy Library of Congress.http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2011/12/happy-haiga-day-christmas-edition.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-1263402982183545528Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:01:00 +00002011-12-23T00:01:01.582-05:00haiga© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. Photo courtesy Library of Congress.The Library of Congress has been like Santa Claus to me with a goody bag overflowing with copyright-free photos. I have another holiday haiga using a Library of Congress photo, which I posted last year, click here to see it. There will be yet another one on Sunday, so come back again.Head over to Dori Reads for the holiday http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2011/12/poetry-friday-its-in-air.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-7191346695196998583Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:00:00 +00002011-12-20T06:00:11.200-05:00Haiku Stickyhaiku© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2011/12/haiku-sticky-128.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-7480150128346973629Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:01:00 +00002011-12-18T07:01:00.694-05:00haigaHappy Haiga Day© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2011/12/happy-haiga-day_18.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-110623318582370475Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:01:00 +00002011-12-16T00:01:00.395-05:00There is absolutely no other response to the following except a big smile!The Cureby Ginger AndrewsLying around all daywith some strange new deep blueweekend funk, I'm not really asleepwhen my sister callsto say she's just hung upfrom talking with Aunt Berthawho is 89 and ill but managingto take care of Uncle Frankwho is completely bed ridden.Aunt Bert saysit's snowing there in Arkansas,on http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2011/12/poetry-friday-cure.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-3731350740305459546Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:30:00 +00002011-12-13T06:30:03.643-05:00Haiku Stickyhaiku© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2011/12/haiku-sticky-127.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-9216327516607652504Sun, 11 Dec 2011 11:12:00 +00002011-12-11T06:12:01.071-05:00haigaHappy Haiga Day© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2011/12/happy-haiga-day_11.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-100620366577668460Fri, 09 Dec 2011 05:01:00 +00002011-12-09T20:00:22.873-05:00original poempoehistryPie Town Family, 1940Five clean-faced young ones and their parents sit for the portrait.The oldest, perhaps twelve,looks away from the camera. Distracted? Or merely not wanting to be part of this world where Mom and Dad, barely beyond childhood themselves, raise a family in a shack with cardboard wallstaped, nailed, and stained.Yet, if you look deeper,there on the cardboard wallis a framed print http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2011/12/poetry-friday-poehistry.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-8637854214128935898Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:22:00 +00002011-12-06T06:22:00.374-05:00Haiku Stickyhaiku© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. I don't really damn the cookie makers, but they sure make it hard on us weak-willed ones!http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2011/12/haiku-sticky-126.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-508086735481170684Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:53:00 +00002011-12-04T05:53:00.316-05:00haigaHappy Haiga Day© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith courtesy Library of Congress.http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2011/12/happy-haiga-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3868976411159042945.post-5110504974113761047Fri, 02 Dec 2011 05:01:00 +00002011-12-02T00:01:03.312-05:00Yesterday I was interviewed by Linda Crotta Brennan at Lupine Seeds primarily on my WW II poems. If you missed it, click here.Since next Wednesday marks the 70th anniversary of the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor, and the entrance of the United States into the war, I thought I would mention a book in the "American Poets Project" series, Poets of World War II, edited by Harvey Shapiro (Library http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2011/12/poetry-friday-poets-of-world-war-ii.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Diane Mayr)7