Deborah P Kolodji - Poetry Scrapbook and Random Musings

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Sun, 12 May 2013 12:02:04 GMT

Sun, 08:08: In San Jose with fellow HNA committee members Greg Longenecker and Naia for the Yuki Teikei Haiku Reading at the Emma Prush Farm Park
Sun, 08:11: I have two haiku in the new online haiku journal Kernels Online: http://t.co/OKcSOxxIqP
Sun, 08:13: RT @bigmax722: spiral galaxy - the understanding in a stranger's eyes #haiku #nahaiwrimo
Sun, 08:13: RT @haikumonk: #haiku #nahaiwrimo #micropoetry #poetweet mosquitoes the stone Buddha remains centered ( The Heron's Nest, Vol. XIV, No. 3…
Sun, 08:27: #nahaiwrimo #8 - home #haiku we moved our house moved butterfly

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Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:01:34 GMT

Fri, 17:56: #haiku - I was so busy preparing for the booth at the FOB last week, I didn't notice my haiku at Issa's Untidy Hut: http://t.co/jF4lWyuclS

Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:16:48 GMT

North America organizing committee and volunteers at our LA Festival of Books booth. This was taken on Sunday morning just before the festival opened for a second day.

Photo by Mimi Ortiz We enjoyed two full days of talking up haiku to random booth visitors, often resulting in impromptu haiku workshops and in depth discussions about haiku. What fun we had!

My tweets

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 08:35:16 GMT

Thu, 05:01: RT @ericcoliu: starless night/ a lantern boat sailing/ out to sea http://t.co/PkHtLc5TNA #haiku #poetry #micropoetry
Thu, 05:01: RT @Vhaiku: @haikunortham Haiku North America; Haiku Society of America. Kudos to the organizers! Gratias! Great day! http://t.co/qGDFrJplR2
Thu, 05:02: RT @Vhaiku: @haikunortham So many Haiku enthusiasts today at the booth; loved reading Into Borrego Valley to you. http://t.co/FlDkdJAgON
Thu, 05:13: @susanantolin @haikunortham - Susan - your book, Artichoke Season, was very popular at the FOB Haiku North America Booth - we sold out!
Thu, 06:31: #haiku Photos of our Haiku North America booth at the Festival of Books: http://t.co/ZjBj4xbGUm

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Sat, 20 Apr 2013 12:01:46 GMT

Fri, 21:20: Haiku at the Festival of Books!!! booth #381 Tomorrow and Sunday at the USC campus #haiku

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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:02:51 GMT

Wed, 22:34: #haiku Open Haiku Mic tonight at Bean Town Coffee Bar in Sierra Madre, CA to celebrate National Haiku Poetry Day. 45 N. Baldwin - 7 pm

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Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:02:04 GMT

Wed, 01:46: RT @7x20: only a year / and your headstone needs cleaning / spring melancholy // #haiku by @dkolodji
Wed, 01:47: RT @pauldavidmena: waxing moon - I fall asleep between commercials #haiku
Wed, 01:47: RT @cirrusdream: RT @apwpoet: #senryu #nahaiwrimo #micropoetry Again and again our old mistakes making us.
Wed, 01:47: RT @apwpoet: #haiku #senryu #haiga #nahaiwrimo #micropoetry Oh, Wild Iris they're talking about war again. � 2013 Scott Reid http://t. ...

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Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:02:30 GMT

Thu, 17:36: RT @7x20: our moment gone now / dry iris by the stone lantern // #haiku by @dkolodji (orig pub Modern Haiku, 43.2, Summer 2012)
Thu, 23:53: The Eaton Conference of Science Fiction is having a speculative poetry reading tomorrow. https://t.co/RwegT6PIMu

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Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:02:21 GMT

Wed, 17:19: RT @7x20: the other half / of Half Dome... / Mirror Lake // #haiku by @dkolodji

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Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:02:22 GMT

Tue, 18:34: RT @7x20: early dawn / the light from a second sun / pinker // #scifaiku by @dkolodji (orig pub: Scifaikuest, August print 2012)

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Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:02:33 GMT

Sun, 16:03: #nahaiwrimo (#5 special place) #haiku #senryu #queenmary #hna your eyes meet mine at the Observation Bar spring heat http://t.co/KySiWX4uWn

Mon, 02:39: The latest issue of Notes from the Gean is out: http://t.co/yndpAY3TVz (It includes my equality haiga)

Mon, 07:32: #nahaiwrimo (7 precipice) #haiku #queenmary #hna2013 impossibly long climb to the Crows Nest billowing clouds

Yesterday's haiku workshop....

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:02:19 GMT

Even though we had a small turnout, yesterday's haiku workshop at the Huntington Beach Central Library was productive and a lot of fun. I brought about 25 haiku books from my personal collection and spread them out on the tables. We talked a little bit about haiku in general, 5-7-5 vs less than 5-7-5, season words, cuts, juxtaposition, etc.

We picked a few haiku from the books I brought and put them on the whiteboard for discussion.

We then brainstormed some seasonal references to write to, and came up with the following list:

lengthening days
longer hours
later sunset
allergies
tomato plants
asparagus
kittens
flowers
pastel dresses
new campaigns
spring break
testing season
income taxes
April Fool's
cherry blossoms

We all wrote haiku to these, then workshopped them. The haiku written during the workshop will be on display in the library for National Poetry Month.

I finished up with the "mystery kigo" exercise, using "spring birdsong" as the kigo. Here is mine:

the freeway
unexpectedly clear
spring birdsong

I was lucky that freeway was clear, or I would have been late. Sometimes getting to the workshop is the actual challenge. One poet, who happens to live in Orange County, ended up at the Huntington Library in Pasadena instead of the much closer (to her) Huntington Beach Central Library on Talbert Street!

The lure of The Huntington is strong.

Haiku workshop - Huntington Beach Library, 2 pm

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:57:46 GMT

In honor of National Poetry Month, the Huntington Beach Central Library is having a haiku workshop, which they have asked me to conduct.

It will be held today, April 6th, from 2-4 pm.

This workshop is free and open to anyone who would like to learn more about haiku. The workshop is open to all levels of haiku experience, ranging from no writing experience at all to published haiku poets.

If you have haiku you would like to share, bring them. If not, just bring yourself!

The address is 7111 Talbert Ave, Huntington Beach, CA

More Queen Mary inspired ku

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 12:02:24 GMT

#3 delta

Delta Dawn
a mysterious dark-haired man
on the M Deck

#4 celestial

city lights
from Pier J
the Big Dipper

Queen Mary haiku

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:02:17 GMT

For the last two months, I've been selecting a location to write my NaHaiWriMo prompts to. (NaHaiWriMo is a facebook group with a daily haiku prompt. Carole MacRury is the April prompter.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/NaHaiWriMo/108107262587697

In February, I wrote my haiku to the prompts as if I were in Yosemite.

For March, I selected the Pacific Ocean as my location.

For April, in honor of the upcoming Haiku North America Conference on board the Queen Mary , I have selected a prompt location of the Queen Mary, past or present.

#1 - smooth

smooth jazz
after our toast,
my pink shimmy

#2 - empty

alone
on the empty deck
the ghost of Sir Winston

our footprints

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:17:08 GMT

Mon, 21:13: #nahaiwrimo (#31-tension or release) #senryu

Mon, 21:29: #haiku -

http://t.co/kz6ZgX18Ts

Mon, 22:01: RT @haikufound:

http://t.co/jdLgXLk3UZ

my words of you

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 12:17:29 GMT

Sat, 19:08: #nahaiwrimo (#30 - writing utensils) #senryu

my words of you
erased by the tide
driftwood

that pea green boat and other things

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 12:02:27 GMT

Fri, 22:02: RT @tinywords:

http://t.co/0alYj0Lovp

http://t.co/9p44phSD6B

Fri, 22:06: RT @haikunortham:

Fri, 23:56: #nahaiwrimo (#28 sleep)

Sat, 02:04:

https://t.co/7pAH1wtsuq

Sat, 02:15: #haiku

http://t.co/pHTInxtiL7

Sat, 04:42: #haiku #NationalHaikuPoetryDay

Sat, 09:15: #nahaiwrimo (#29 - hook) #senryu

moon in the ocean

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:02:24 GMT

moon in the ocean

the whale cloud
above

sea glass and morning sand...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:02:38 GMT

Mon, 07:31: #nahaiwrimo (#24 - glass) #haiku the jewelry maker searches for sea glass spring tide

Mon, 07:46: #nahaiwrimo (#13 - primary mode of transportation) #haiku my steps your steps morning sand

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Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:17:38 GMT

Thu, 01:51: RT @haikunortham: Haiku North America - A preview of some of the wonderful presentations that will be featured at Haiku North... http:// ...

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Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:02:29 GMT

Sun, 03:42: #haiku - wonderful haiku workshop at the Pacific Asia Museum today @PacAsiaMuseum

The ocean responds to NaHaiWriMo

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:32:12 GMT

Big Sur Lighthouse, Photo by Deborah P Kolodji

Thu, 19:46: my steps / the only footsteps / salt breeze

Thu, 20:10: sand shift / from beach to beach / winter erosion

Fri, 00:23: our love nest / hidden by the rising tide / new moon

Fri, 06:35: the tide rolls in / and erases the circle / pi day

Prehistoric

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:02:42 GMT

Wed, 08:07 (tweet): I feel prehistoric... / pelicans flying low / over the water #nahaiwrimo #senryu #haiku

Photo from National Geographic - http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2006/06/pelican-grace/white-text.html

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Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:17:30 GMT

Sun, 17:57: Malibu sunset / a summer rental next door / to Pierce Brosnan (For Karen Romanko) #nahaiwrimo #haiku @KarenARomanko