Gentle readers!
Writing two series of poetry has been wonderful. It has helped my mental and emotional state more than I can tell. Having a series in mind – A Plan – gives me something to look forward to. It helps me see myself as something more than a disabled-housewife-spouse-mom.
As you know, I finished the Haiku of Legendary Creatures last night; the Haiku of the Nations ended about two weeks ago. You’d think I’d feel a sense of relief, of being able to kick back and relax. Unfortunately that’s not the case. I feel uneasy, like I’m floating aimlessly.
“So,” you say, “start a new series!” Well, I’d like to … but I’m not sure where to start!
At 3:00 this morning I had an idea. What about writing a series of haiku specifically about emotions? The following poster popped into my head. I saw it at my son’s elementary school several years ago.
How DO you feel? (I added the numbers.)
Perhaps I could write haiku based on images from nature – images that represent the various “feeling faces”. Sure, poetry is supposed to evoke images and emotion. But instead of working from
Image to Emotion to Haiku
I would work from
Emotion to Image to Haiku
Aerial view of lava lake in Pu‘u ‘O‘o crater, Kilauea Hawaii. Wikipedia. Would you say this is “anger” or “jealousy”? I don’t think it’s quite “enraged” …
What do you say? Do you have any ideas for a new series of haiku? Do you think my current idea is “great”, “okay”, or “lousy”? Are there any nature images you would like me to write about?
I would appreciate your feedback!
Seems like a good idea to me…
Or, you could do A – Z your favorite artists/songs/movies…
Or, you could a series on the zodiac…
Or, you could do a series on great comics: calvin & hobbes, dilbert, garfield, heathcliff, citizen dog, blondie, zits, mutts, baby blues…
Hmmm….. favorite artists A to Z would really kick butt! I like that.
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A zodiac series would be interesting too … could do both “western” (the one we think about, with Capricorn, Sagittarius, etc.) and “eastern” (year of rat, year of dragon, etc.).
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Comics would lend themselves more to limericks than haiku, but that is an idea for future series. I don’t know that many comics though. Maybe if you add cartoons it would work (Adventure Time TV, Beetle Bailey np, Calvin & Hobbes np, etc.).
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There are some good ideas here. I may ditch the “moods” for the artists. Thank you for the great ideas!
Always happy to help!
I really am grateful … the artist idea really speaks to me.
Wait till you see Frederick Church!
Saw Church at an exhibit in DC; I can’t even begin to explain how well he depicted light. Not depicting objects, just the actual essence of *light*. One painting had a stump in the foreground; it looked like someone had trained a spotlight on the stump. People were looking all over for the spotlight. There wasn’t any.
Sold. When can I expect it?
Also, FYI – I’m going to be sending out a general request for guest bloggers pretty soon (to help cover a few weeks from now when my world gets flipped turned upside down) and would love if you would put something together for my little piece of this big ol’ blogosphere.
Oh wow! I’d be honored!
That’s right — you’re expecting a little one soon, aren’t you?
What type of writing would you like for the guest piece?
Jen! I think that is a great idea, and it sounds very cathartic. and I know Catharsis in Writing
I was just thinking of you yesterday. Say a advert for a Beatles cover band coming to my town. march 1. I will be going to see them. I will write about it 
Wow! Can’t wait to see the news on the Beatles band! Yes, you’ll have to write all about it.
I’m having a procedure done on the 1st so I might not reply right away, but I’ll keep an eye out for it.
Did I tell you the card arrived in the mail the other day? I thought it was dear!
Glad you got the card. Spill the beans, what procedure?
I think that is a good idea
Thanks!
I think I am going to make an about-face and try a different idea for a bit … doing painters A to Z … but while I’m doing that I’ll research the “emotions” images because that might take a bit more work than I thought it would take. Perhaps I should ask people if they are willing to submit photos they’d like to see featured/ written about? Finding the photos may be 3/4 of the work in this idea …. [shudder]
Thanks for the support – I appreciate it a lot!
Hope you’re doing well [hugs]
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Please accept & oblige.
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Thank you very much for the award! I will get working on the requirements later this afternoon.
God bless!
Nice post! Where is your “Like’ button for your blog in WordPress — I can’t find it and am not on Facebook. Thanks.
It should be in the upper left … let me check again, okay? WordPress is weird.
I think the emotions idea is a good one and will stretch your artistic muscle. that is, after all, what you want.
Oh, it’s going to be a stretch alright!
I have an idea to do the artist haiku first, and work on the moods second since it’s going to take longer because I’ll have to find appropriate artwork. That part has me a bit nervous!