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    Marching through Another Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

     

     

    Here's this week's heap of haikus:
     



    (For D.D.:) 
     

    I was so mad, I
    threw the couch thru the TV (minus the pillows.)


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    Our connection to
    the past may be much closer
    than we imagined.


    Photo of my father's mother, Sarah Howard Smith born -1881, died - 1938. )


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    The sun was stymied,
    but blue skies infused the clouds,
    a dark hope prevailed.

     

    (Thanks to Kristina Rebelo for the use of her photograph)
     

     

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    Glorious sunset,
    you've taken my breath away
    and lured me to dream.


    (Thanks to Kristina Rebelo for the use of her photograph)

     

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    Though fragile hearts need whispered blessings, they also
    need your steady hand.


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    Compassion for those
    that never got sick ... Old age
    will be quite a shock.



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    Sometimes we forget;
    before we ski down mountains,
    we first must climb them.
     

     

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    By a waterfall

    The lovers had a picnic,

    ev’rything got wet.
     


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    In a lost garden,
    overgrown with grass and weeds,
    peonies still bloomed.



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    There was a large crowd,

    lined up ’round Tompkins Square Park,

    Bread line? Movie Shoot.

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    An old weathered rope,
    hangs ’round a lonely fence-post,
    purpose forgotten.


     


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    A bee that lands on
    a giant sunflower, will
    seldom seek a rose.

     

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    Nice haiku, Riv Vu
    in romantic neighborhood
    with garden. No pets.


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    What is left unsaid

    may be so for two reasons;

    meaningful and not.

     

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    No one owns meaning,

    shades of interpretation

    can be rented though.

     

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    Despite majestic
    morns and lazy afternoons ...
    All days end in fire.

     

    (Again, thanks to Kristina Rebelo for the use of her photograph)

     

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    It's sad when modern
    is said to be passe; the
    future is finished.

     

    The wonderful theater in the above photos is in Oklahoma City, and is scheduled to be demolished. When it first opened, it was hailed as brilliant and innovative. It won an international Gold Circle award from the American Institute of Architects and is the only building in OKC featured in textbooks around the world.

    Originally opened in 1970, it was designed by John Johanson, a student of Frank Lloyd Wright and a member of the legendary “Harvard Five” (which also included Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, Philip Johnson and Eliot Noyes).

    I appeared in three productions at that theater and loved its very modern design. It makes me sad that it may soon be gone.  Time marching on sucks sometimes.

     

    Speaking of which ...

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    The real McCoy-ku:

     

    Neither the current
    nor previous Garden were
    at Madison Square.

     

    (Drawing of the first Madison Square Garden, located at ...)

     

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    To the smallest ones
    give large measures of respect;
    troubles drift away.

     

    (March 3 was Hinamatsuri - aka Festival of Dolls.

     

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    There’s just Black or White
    in the world of absolutes …
    and thus, no rainbows.

     

     

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    Comments

    As always a great set of thoughtful writing. I enjoyed it. 

    I hope you got a spike in your stats at wordpress for the reblog I did.  


    Thanks, trkingmomoe!  I appreciate the re-blogs! (I'm keeping my fingers crossed for an uptick in views!)  Your quilting blog got me remembering some quilts from my childhood. They must have been from the 1930's or possibly 1940's.   They were made of cotton and we used them mostly during the Summer when my sister and I would sleep in my parent's bedroom because it had the air conditioner.   I suspect the quilts were Depression-era because of the odd collection of fabrics, which included pieces with Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs  characters on them.   I will have to check with my sister and see if she still has them. (I hope so.  They were made, if I recall correctly by my mother's mother, who passed away just a few months after I was born.) 

     

     

     


    Snow White puts them in around 1939 and after.  Quilting was popular in the depression because of the shortage of money. They used up fabric scraps and finished quilt kits that had been put away because they were too hard decades earlier.  I am seeing that going on now. The traditional quilt block patterns bring in views from google searches for that pattern.   


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