March 20, 2014
photo (c) 2014 Saradunn
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My inspiration:
sign with display at the local
Middle School. I did not have
permission to photograph the
art work.
second grade students
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intrigued by imaginary creatures
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illusion spells belief
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CHIMERA..Defined
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1, The Chimera was,
according to Greek mythology,
a monstrous fire-breathing creature
of Lycia in Asia Minor,
composed of the parts of three animals
— a lion, a snake and a goat
2. illusion
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written for facebook page.
NaHaiWriMo facebook site encourages
other than the standard 5-7-5 haiku forms.
It is a place to have fun, play creatively,
experiment, try something new, practice
writing haiku daily.
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March 19, 2014
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Ellsworth Middle School corridor
(c) 3/2014 The Art of Sigrid Saradunn
I took an art class here and got lost leaving …
just one floor but it is a maze of corridors.
Ended up asking a janitor how to get out
of the building. She put her cart away
and led me to the door being sure I was at
the correct parking lot.
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Middle School hallway
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getting lost is easy to do
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tax dollars at work
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written for facebook page.
NaHaiWriMo facebook site encourages
other than the standard 5-7-5 haiku forms.
It is a place to have fun, play creatively,
experiment, try something new, practice
writing haiku daily.
March 17, 2014
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.painting from Gazebo, Union River Waterfront,
Ellsworth Maine USA. Plein Aire…
a lovely day with sail boats heading out before the tide is too low. Watercolor on paper, 4″ x 6″. (c) 2013 Saradunn
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summer time
tides going out ~ boats sea bound
picture perfect
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no Gateway* seen
Mississippi water wheel
St Louis blues
no Gateway* seen
Mississippi water wheel
St Louis blues
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*I took the boat ride in the 1950’s
before the Gateway Arch was built
before the Gateway Arch was built
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red sail boat
single man’s expensive joy
gets wed ~ for sale sign
red sail boat
single man’s expensive joy
gets wed ~ for sale sign
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March 16, 2014
Plein Aire 2013 Barn being taken down as it is falling down.
Can be seen from the Ellsworth, Maine, USA, waterfront gazebo.
Watercolor on paper. 5″x7″ sort of (c) 2013 Saradunn
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stone barn
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early settlers pride and joy
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rocks of ages
rocks of ages
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roof caving in
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no cows to be seen
no cows to be seen
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mice and spiders
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big barn
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big barn
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attached to house
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handy 3 seater*
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* in Maine,
because of the snow and deep freeze winters,
some barns were attached to the house. At the
far end of the barn, would be an enclosed
outhouse. It might be cold, but protected from
the elements.
A friend told me of a house with a “3 seater”
outhouse that had been restored.
… the middle seat (the baby seat) was removable.
No record of reason someone would want to go
down under the outhouse, but it was restored
as found. I wangled a “tour” because …
well just because I needed to see it. I remember a
3 seater outhouse in northern Wisconsin…3 sizes
of places to sit…and not attached to the house…
mighty brisk some times.
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NaHaiWriMo
March 16, 2014
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(c) 2013 Saradunn
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sweet summer’s day.
mindful moment watching clouds
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do you see what I see
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summer’s day
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lie on grass ~ watching wind play
lie on grass ~ watching wind play
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naming clouds
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summer day
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wind playing with clouds
wind playing with clouds
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skyscapes ~ endless change
skyscapes ~ endless change
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March 11, 2014
(c) September 22, 2012 Saradunn … at the Common Ground Fair
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25 braid
sweet fern braided
red and purple dried flowers ~ ‘Kiss
-Over-Garden-Gate’
(‘Kiss-Me-Over-The-Garden-Gate
is the plants name’)
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amazing talents
young girl has one ~ braids cherry
stems in her mouth
boys with idle minds
girls with long braids suffer
school desk with inkwell
teen’s rat tail
suddenly missing
job interview
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trip down Bayside*
braiding around potholes
Washboard Avenue
* Bayside is a country road
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March 11, 2014
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2/19 baby
lion stare
watches snow flakes fall (longingly)
Baby Kitty *
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* “Baby” is adult Norwegian Forest Cats name.
He was showing unwittingly his “feminine”
side 🙂
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Note on Baby:
When I lived with my daughter, “grumpy”
Baby would come in my room and look out the
window… I’d made a place for him to lay and look
outside.
Baby was a rescue cat and didn’t warm up
to people, but tolerated the family. It was
many years and a severe illness until he would let
anyone hold him or pet him. I loved to watch him
as he was the first cat I ever really got to know.
He kept me company after i had back surgery
…quiet and watchful.
Baby would come in my room and look out the
window… I’d made a place for him to lay and look
outside.
Baby was a rescue cat and didn’t warm up
to people, but tolerated the family. It was
many years and a severe illness until he would let
anyone hold him or pet him. I loved to watch him
as he was the first cat I ever really got to know.
He kept me company after i had back surgery
…quiet and watchful.
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2/12 break
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President’s Day
whoo hoo tourney time
February break
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2/20 bling
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worn proudly
grandmother’s rhinestone pins
precious glamour
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children love glitz
precious gifts still worn
forty years of sparkles
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between storms
frosty sparkle on ice
winter diamonds
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diamonds on water
natures gift of wonder
herons gaze
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spider webs dew drops
glisten with sunrise
remember Charlotte
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stars in her eyes
love in her heart
newly wed
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2/26 brew/wine/beer spirits
brewery tour fun
bottle jam where filled
bottles with wings
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brewery visit
tour bypassed
Clydesdales
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2/27 button
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smart talking kids
learned to toe the line
button your lip
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March 6, 2014
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(c) 3/2014 Saradunn. The Wednesday Portrait Group of Blue Hill, Maine, USA
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March 1, 2014 tanka prompt: beauty of what we do as a group (singing, writing)
By Kathabela Wilson on Sunday, March 2, 2014 at 9:06am
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March 1 prompt: the beauty of what we do as a group (singing together),
(our Mozart performance, writing together (Tanka Poets on Site) anything we do, not solo…)
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(Our performance tonight of selections from the Mozart requiem! I love it…
Recorded from the balcony by my phone recorder while we were down there on stage!
We all do many things alone. In so many ways … we “sing solo”.
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But what do we do together, to make unified beauty?
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This happened last night… and the beauty I think, shines through. If you can’t hear the recording…
most of you should be able to…
it is fine, because you know the kind of thing I am talking about. Open any one of our files on this site…
and see the unfolding fan of solo voices when combined give a sense of a whole view,
an anthology like “Firepearls” that sparkles.
Think of our group performance at Tanka Sunday, on the Queen Mary
when some of you joined me in person to perform as a group.
Think of our upcoming sharing and performances in the Japanese Garden
and even in China this summer when I will bring some of your tanka there
to perform for Tong Zhang the artist we wrote for…
This is why I make this site and all our anthologies.
Think of the garden of many roses that Robert Johnston has given us here.
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.March 1 prompt: The Beauty of what we create as a group, singing, writing, rose garden… photo byRobert Johnston
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While the beauty of each rose is kept and honored the sense of the natural overwhelming bouquets
highlight the extravagant beauty of them all together.
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Think of the things you do, have done, as a group…
and
how this feels.
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This is Poets on Site.
This is you and friends,
it is even you as a couple,
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Acting beyond yourself as a solo person in the world
to create a new kind of beauty.
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How does this sing in your “little song” ?
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My response tanka
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almost 40 years
artists meet on Wednesdays
portraits galore
models ~ ten to one hundred one
some like us enough to paint
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artists meet on Wednesdays
portraits galore
models ~ ten to one hundred one
some like us enough to paint
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The Wednesday Portrait group of Blue Hill, Maine, USA, have been meeting since 1976 when several artists decided to challenge themselves with life models and paint portraits. It evolved from their homes to summers painting in a barn, winters at a retirement community’s Art Room. One of the original group of women moved there and still lives there.
Several of the painters started out as models and decided to join the group as an artist.
We bring our lunch, and bond after the session ends.
Out of this group, we now have a Monday still life group in the same activity room. The plein aire painters started twelve years ago in the summer and now meet year round on Monday and Fridays in the library in Somesville, Maine, USA.
Out of this group, we now have a Monday still life group in the same activity room. The plein aire painters started twelve years ago in the summer and now meet year round on Monday and Fridays in the library in Somesville, Maine, USA.
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Written for:
Tanka Poets on Site
Facebook
March 2, 2014
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Our host, Kristjaan Panneman aka Chèvrefeuille shares his philosophy:
“Here … however …
I will try to stay close to my own philosophy which is based on more than one religion or spiritual vision.”
Second … in everything and everyone there is God (or Spirit or what ever you call it yourself), which is based on the thought ‘NaraNaraYana”, a Hindu word which means something like “God in humankind, humankind in God”.
Third... you have always look towards the other with respect
First … live out of unconditional love for all and everything on Earth
Second … in everything and everyone there is God (or Spirit or what ever you call it yourself), which is based on the thought ‘NaraNaraYana”, a Hindu word which means something like “God in humankind, humankind in God”.
Third... you have always look towards the other with respect
and you have to accept that the other is different from you.
In Kristjaan’s work as an oncology nurse he states:
“I always look at my patients with the thought
‘How would I like it if I was in that hospital bed?’ “
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My response haiku:
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mother and child bond
growing pains for mother ~ child
bluebirds sing ~ rose blooms
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child becomes mother
love bestows love ~ her children
gifts of love from God
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Roles reverse with age
Mother ~ child accept loves gift
Love you forever
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March 2, 2014
Feb 26, 2014 tanka prompt: bamboo fountain, also called Shishi-odoshi (deer scarer) Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden (Kath)
By Kathabela Wilson on Wednesday, February 26, 2014 at 11:31pm
Feb 26, 2014 prompt: bamboo fountain, (photo inspiration above)
also called Shishi-odoshi (deer scarer) Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden
Just near the entrance to the exquisite teahouse,
at the Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden…
there is a bamboo fountain.
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The soothing sight of it remains in memory long after,
as does the sound of water.
The Japanese word for this fountain
means “deer scarer” because the balance and movement
as it emtis and fills is meant to scare animals
that might disturb the delicate balance of the garden.
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At this garden.
I heard the sound of water,
but so far not a clacking sound and sudden movement.
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We did see and hear that on our trips to Japan.
But it has a unction of refreshment and symbolism near the entrance to the teahouse.
What has been your experience with bamboo fountains such as this…
how do they sound and move in your tanka ?
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https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151874339885518&set=oa.600366666717202&type=3&theater This is a very satisfying and beautiful poetic sight in the garden, the lotus shaped bowl fills with water… from the beautiful bamboo.)
also called Shishi-odoshi (deer scarer) Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden
Just near the entrance to the exquisite teahouse,
at the Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden…
there is a bamboo fountain.
.
The soothing sight of it remains in memory long after,
as does the sound of water.
The Japanese word for this fountain
means “deer scarer” because the balance and movement
as it emtis and fills is meant to scare animals
that might disturb the delicate balance of the garden.
.
At this garden.
I heard the sound of water,
but so far not a clacking sound and sudden movement.
.
We did see and hear that on our trips to Japan.
But it has a unction of refreshment and symbolism near the entrance to the teahouse.
What has been your experience with bamboo fountains such as this…
how do they sound and move in your tanka ?
.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151874339885518&set=oa.600366666717202&type=3&theater This is a very satisfying and beautiful poetic sight in the garden, the lotus shaped bowl fills with water… from the beautiful bamboo.)
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remembering sounds
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tranquil soothing water sounds
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restored hearts rhythm
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healing sound ~ water trickling
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tranquil heart and soul
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