tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64103081234117037172024-03-19T12:55:41.660-07:00Fleur's PearlsFleurdeleohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02302048075544358448noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6410308123411703717.post-22476850512937923112014-04-01T07:10:00.001-07:002014-04-01T07:10:15.722-07:00Haiku Monday:Broken<a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAQQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.colourbox.com%2Fimage%2Fclose-up-of-a-baby-chicken-with-a-broken-egg-image-2731928&ei=Lsg6U-PfI8e40AHA3oGIAw&usg=AFQjCNHg9-Z2FV88gNgxvVb981mVI9_c_Q&sig2=xrfdmxbpYw5FLnl2_iSuOw&bvm=bv.63934634,d.dmQ"><img height="213" id="irc_ilrp_i" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTTkFgWQH6U7n-xALrCLRbaSdbapUzOpTc9jlT3xP2tbNxVXpvY" style="height: 320px; margin-top: 140px; width: 480px;" width="320" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Home...home on the range.</span>Fleurdeleohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02302048075544358448noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6410308123411703717.post-65745779642788395572014-03-30T09:10:00.003-07:002014-03-30T10:38:51.597-07:00Haiku Monday Winner: Altitude<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><strong>Truly sorry for the delay, Haiku Monday friends</strong>.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As usual, we had a frolicsome collection of high-flying haiku. As they say to kids today and local beauty pageant contestants, "you are ALL winners." Naturally, though, <span style="color: red;">one </span>of you is more winner-ish than the rest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For his clear and outrageous attempt to bribe the judge with an "ode" accompanied by provocative "artistic" imagery, Rafa wins the Porn Balloon as below. Click below to see Rafa's "entry". </span><a href="http://ramblingsfrommytyper.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://ramblingsfrommytyper.blogspot.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> There was a Polar Vortex in NYC, but I had to turn my AC on thanks to Rafa. Haiku? What haiku? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Serendipity kept it classy (as usual) with her gorgeous tribute below</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wild wings, primal calls-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">spring flight north to fatten, breed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cranes: fierce and graceful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For this, I award her the Graceful Vintage Balloon Art on a Cellphone Case award.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Karl offered this bit of advice:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When seeking safe ground</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I award Karl the the Superman Macy's Day Parade Balloon Award for his practical wisdom!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">I swear, the Csar could condense the plot of War and Peace into 17 syllables. The haiku below captures the complete story of our mutual friend Dizz as he tees. Honestly--the first time I read this, I thought the blade was a razor and the "pock-marked orb" was Dizz's head. So many layers and levels, Csar, succinctly told.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Csar, I gift thee with the Rubik's Cube Balloon Award for your dizzingly complex haiku.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Foam submitted a haiku that left a trail of satisfying sensory stimulation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">On a warm updraft</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">the kite soars and swoops on high</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">silhouetting dreams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Doom, doom, doom: you offered haiku this week like a volcano spraying lava! Inspiring images as well. Winter tramps, rude alarm clocks, weak knees, whims and nausea--that covers a lot of territory. The most captivating, below:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Lifted to great heights</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">borne on spring's wings of want</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">drifting then? undone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">"Borne on spring's wings of want" is one of the best phrases I have ever read--anywhere. For me, it captures every situation of desire from unrequited love to restless spring fever.</span></div>
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The Grand Prize goes to Becca. Congruatulations, Becca!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please play with us this week! You will not find a smarter, sassier or more thoughtful group of competitors. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Format: 5 syllables (first line); 7 syllables (second line); 5 syllables (third line.)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seasonal reference is required.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cutting word/idea - strongly encouraged</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visual - always encouraged</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Have your entry in by dawn's early light Tuesday (PT).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Winner will be announced Thursday.</span></li>
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Fleurdeleohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02302048075544358448noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6410308123411703717.post-63273529180828510122014-03-17T06:07:00.001-07:002014-03-17T06:07:21.449-07:00Well, hell and hello!<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Can it be true?</span> Rafa has crowned me the Haiku Monday winner for last week!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Sorry, Haiku Monday friends, for being so slow on the uptake. I offer to host at any point when the winner wants only the glory with none of the responsibility!</span><br />
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Fleurdeleohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02302048075544358448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6410308123411703717.post-26024521746186030422014-03-10T15:06:00.003-07:002014-03-10T15:07:42.942-07:00HAIKU MONDAY: Corner<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Between shoelaces</span><br />
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Fleurdeleohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02302048075544358448noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6410308123411703717.post-78338687820214091192013-07-29T19:33:00.001-07:002013-07-29T19:35:14.076-07:00Haiku Monday: Dance<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0wXZxZJXtleD8HPrDZE_ILKkcu6RAOLAEeK2tmwMf75eP8jqTKTHi-LdSRRrlNUQVRpx0qExMkbA6W2WhjDzurxX70QejKi-mUmzLCjT8ksk58NsTVbr3o_6r-88pXAkeOZ__FdLfEBOv/s1600/fan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0wXZxZJXtleD8HPrDZE_ILKkcu6RAOLAEeK2tmwMf75eP8jqTKTHi-LdSRRrlNUQVRpx0qExMkbA6W2WhjDzurxX70QejKi-mUmzLCjT8ksk58NsTVbr3o_6r-88pXAkeOZ__FdLfEBOv/s1600/fan.jpg" height="320" width="318" /></a><br />
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Well, HM friends, we had another round of excellent and diverse entries. And then a few bonus psychic connections with Foam and Aunty's banged up feet--even though, much like Kate Moss--Aunty used a body double for her visuals--and then Karl and Csar both "On The Road to Haiku Monday": what a spectacle that would make!<br />
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Before announcing the winner, here are winners in a few other categories:<br />
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<li>Favorite phrase with one extra syllable: "Blowing in the wind tumbleweed" - cinematic, and appealed to my inner prairie romantic. (Miss Becca, 8 syllables?)</li>
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don't leave the way, don't<br />what is off the path consumes<br />never expedition<br />
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Human burden beasts.<br />Ancient toil, exotic trade.<br />Summer tea leaf road.</div>
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I like this, too, because drinking tea is very leisurely--while obtaining it, clearly, is not. (Isn't that ironic...don't cha think?)</div>
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<strong>And the winner, which melted my heart (to match everything else that the current NE heat wave has melted up in my 5th floor mantrap): RAFA</strong></div>
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Fleurdeleohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02302048075544358448noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6410308123411703717.post-3062152899218936272013-07-13T08:42:00.002-07:002013-07-13T08:42:32.136-07:00Haiku Monday July 15: RoadGreetings Haiku Monday Challengers!<br />
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This week's theme is <strong>ROAD.</strong><br />
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<strong>Requirements:</strong> First line: 5 syllables; Second line: 7 syllables; 3rd line: 5 syllables.<br />
<strong>Seasonal Reference:</strong> yes<br />
<strong>Cutting word/phrase:</strong> always desirable<br />
<strong>Image:</strong> yes, please<br />
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Fleurdeleohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02302048075544358448noreply@blogger.com49tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6410308123411703717.post-70988274406030209282013-07-08T16:39:00.000-07:002013-07-08T16:39:15.108-07:00Haiku Monday: Fire<span style="font-size: large;">Summer's spacious skies.</span><br />
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<br />Fleurdeleohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02302048075544358448noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6410308123411703717.post-56477098793965141652013-04-28T19:49:00.001-07:002013-04-28T19:49:52.112-07:00Haiku Monday: Delicate Companions<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<br />Fleurdeleohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02302048075544358448noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6410308123411703717.post-48043393837969819042013-03-19T17:09:00.003-07:002013-03-19T17:09:25.380-07:00Haiku (Last) Monday Winner: Bloom
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have kept you waiting and messed up our time frame. To quote the Csar, "I <b>loathe</b>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I began this write-up from San Diego where I have been
running a conference for Mechanical Engineering University Department Heads for
a week. Between our Skyped-in general session speakers, conference dinner on
the Midway and managing attendees deeply
offended by continental breakfast sans fruit, juice or gluten-free muffins, I
have ingested your Haiku.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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playing and visiting with comments. These entries are SO DELICIOUS they’ve
earned their very own personal <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Breakfast Pastry Award</i></b> as follows!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Csar and Rafa know well that I gag at all images grubby,
distasteful and downright un-classy. Becca's rose-colored use of "white
throne", and swift movement to butterflies swooshing and fluttering
through a supremely joyful conclusion demonstrates a clever cut from veiled misery
to awe. Her haiku almost makes me want to post another Craig's List ad and lure
myself a 30-year old baby daddy. <i>Almost. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Becca: I honor you with the Almond Croissant Award for wit,
elegance, gracefulness, butterflies conjuring summer and a sweet surprise in the
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Becca, this entry wins you the pop-art Pop-Tart award.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your haiku offer an interesting idea on the
Bloom theme: can we pinpoint the moment an artist blossoms?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is this based on her creation—or on an
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patience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This pastry is sweet but not
cloying and multi-layered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Bloom<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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dizzying amount of material into 3 brief lines and 3 long footnotes. There
hasn’t been this much head-scratching drama since Miss Aretha Franklin, mink
coat over her shoulder, jar of pickled pig’s feet under her arm, strolled into
a Macon hotel and dropped that jar to smash all over that lobby tile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good twist on the traditional use of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Bloom”; highbrow and well-crafted; nice punctuational
cut, clever use of Wilder “Springtime”--and in keeping with your current
dictatorial tone. Your entry is a complex labor of love—if a somewhat aquired
taste.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Csar, I bestow on you the <b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Boyoz Turkish Pastry Award</i></b>:. This
savory offering is creating using a long list of instructions, a mosaic of
fillings and is often garnished with deviled eggs. It’s not for everyone; but
its appreciators are fervent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Excellent images and cut!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Serendipity, you have blown away our Disney-esque images of early
Spring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Shy flowers from under the
snow” captures every young girl’s dream of skipping those awkward years and
morphing right from adorable child to fetching vixen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Wait, what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Dip, for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">keeping it real</b> (a little
too real), I grant you the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Classic Bran Muffin Award.<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Foamy, I adore that sly and comical cut from elegant,
romantic scene setting to getting DOWN!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This haiku evokes summer nights, and the poetic language in the first
two lines lulls for the kill with both “whoop” and “hump”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For this clever contrast, I bestow on you the
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Éclair
Award.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></b>Sure, it looks all
pristine: but what happens when you bite into it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whoop!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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phrase “fade with time and trial”. I think your entry captures one of the
classic human experiences—one that many feel we have to embrace by
default.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do we really gain grace and
wisdom as we age?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it an acceptable
trade for losing our youth and beauty?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Or are we resigned to the idea because it’s our only choice?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the bittersweet theme that you have
built your haiku around, I bestow upon you the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cranberry Bread Award.<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rafa, this is a lovely offering for your mom, and presents a
nice mix of opposites: cool and warm, gusty to calm—bare to color: all with
promise to offer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For this lovely
feeling of anticipation, I bestow upon you the ICED CINNAMON ROLL AWARD.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your haiku is cool like the last snow upon a
mountain top, warm like sprinkled cinnamon, and filled with delight like each
wound up layer below.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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CINNAMON ROLL AWARD<o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
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Rafa:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">an ode to the sweet smells of Spring<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rafa, for this entry’s elements of color, fragrance and
fecundity you have won the Mother of all donut awards: The Donut Plant Peanut
and Jelly Donut Award.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Foam…I think you got everyone’s attention with this one!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Talk about afterglow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Absolutely sensuous, langorous and a nice
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</span>This haiku is the best one to read outloud.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>The contrast between “heralding arriving” and “silence when they fall”
is poignant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love the use of “bright
bursts” for buds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “bright bursts”
and bittersweet anticipation of the life cycle’s end has won you the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blueberry
Lemon Scone Award.<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">when Mom called today. "I'm home...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>Excellent homage to mom’s good hip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For that, you win the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Healthy Whole Wheat and Raisin English
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fishy, this is so touching; a theme that affects all of us
sooner or later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like the use of “sprig”.
It seems the perfect size—fragile and small.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I award you the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Buttered White Toast Award</i></b> for the
sense of comfort that I feel from your haiku.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fishy, you brought the seasonal reference to life the best
with this one; also, you have the best phrase with “ocean brined flesh.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can absolutely taste this giddy summer day
with the sun, salt and slightly feverish feeling of anticipation that a light
sunburn brings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I bestow upon you the:<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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material here for a short story; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>haiku
did capture a whole lot of heightened emotion. I do like “scarlet efflorescence”
and the old-fashioned tone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For all the
guilt and shame herein, you need an award that’s up to the task: I deem you the
winner of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">KRISPY KREME COMPLETE DRIVETHROUGH COLLECTION AWARD.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Fleurdeleohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02302048075544358448noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6410308123411703717.post-67349435379121190512013-03-10T12:36:00.000-07:002013-03-17T09:45:10.105-07:00Haiku Monday 3/11: Bloom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>This week's theme is "bloom".</b><br />
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Come and play, and bring your fellow wordsmiths along!<br />
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<b>Required: </b><br />
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Structure: 5-7-5 syllable pattern<br />
Kigo: Seasonal reference<br />
Kireji: Cutting word establishing a correspondance between the two images it separates.<br />
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<b>Optional</b>: Image<br />
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As many entries as you like; please indicate two for judging.<br />
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Deadline is 11:59 Pacific Time, Monday, March 11.<br />
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Good luck!<br />
<br />Fleurdeleohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02302048075544358448noreply@blogger.com45tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6410308123411703717.post-83828189722929743882013-03-04T20:28:00.002-08:002013-03-04T20:28:44.051-08:00Haiku Monday: Forgetfulness<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Bad love's sweet poison:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">boomerang opiate,</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">memory's mirage.</span></span><br />
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<br />Fleurdeleohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02302048075544358448noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6410308123411703717.post-47584971704654155902013-01-28T17:22:00.000-08:002013-01-28T17:22:46.365-08:00Haiku Monday: Triumph<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">ru</span>ssed up winter worm</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">bursts its ties, to spring's applause;</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">much like Houdini.</span>Fleurdeleohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02302048075544358448noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6410308123411703717.post-54453406561892487402013-01-21T18:33:00.000-08:002013-01-21T18:33:26.928-08:00Haiku Monday: Speed<span style="font-size: x-large;">Ad: "Hunting by Rail!"</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Men on iron horses crack</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">bisons' bones to dust. </span><br />
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<br />Fleurdeleohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02302048075544358448noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6410308123411703717.post-7371640372380196362013-01-14T14:30:00.002-08:002013-01-14T14:30:42.324-08:00Haiku Monday Winner: TightropeHi, everyone.<br />
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After some deliberation on all the diverse and excellent entries, I must crown the winner below; spare, stark and thrilling:<br />
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A climber’s tightrope;<br />
Knife-edge ridge, born from glaciers. <br />
Misstep can
mean death!<br />
Congratulations, Serendipity!<br />
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Honorable mention to Becca for:<br />
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invisible lines<br />beauty etched in the cold ice<br />one word you fall prey<br />
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Thanks, friends!Fleurdeleohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02302048075544358448noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6410308123411703717.post-50111587891582843182013-01-13T10:41:00.002-08:002013-01-13T10:41:52.395-08:00Haiku Monday Friends: The ShameBack in 1975, I spent 3 months as a freshman at St. Mary's High School in Manhasset, NY. My course load track was called "Latin/Biology" which was the hardest track you could take. It included 4 classes of French every week with one hour for study the other day.<br />
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I was a good student and studied for my mid-term French exam diligently--two nights before the test, in fact, and skipped the night-before cramming.<br />
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I went to the study period and came home to my mother asking me why I skipped my French exam; and then she informed me that the nun was COMING TO OUR HOUSE to discuss this situation.<br />
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All I could tell them that evening as my French teacher perched on our Danish modern couch was that I honestly forgot about the exam. (All was well when I got a 96 on the make-up exam.)<br />
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A few years ago, I went to the ATM in the lobby of the Grand Hyatt Atlanta and withdrew $100 from my account. It wasn't till I got to the Marta station that I realized I had taken the receipt, but not the cash. (All was well when I went back to the Hyatt and the money was still in the tray of the ATM.)<br />
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All I can say is that when I remembered that tomorrow is Monday, I realized I had forgotten about my Haiku Monday entrants on the topic of Tightrope.<br />
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I am so sorry, Haiku Monday friends! I will read your entries and be back with you shortly.<br />
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Thank God the Csar doesn't live close enough to pay me an indignant personal visit.Fleurdeleohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02302048075544358448noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6410308123411703717.post-71944165214065646392013-01-05T06:42:00.001-08:002013-01-05T06:42:49.549-08:00January 7 Haiku Monday: Tightrope <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Happy New Year, Haiku friends!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our theme is "Tightrope."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Seasonal reference and cutting word will provide an edge for the entrants</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Visuals encouraged</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Post in the comments section below </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Submit as many as you like; indicate two for judging </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Deadline: Before sunrise NYC Eastern Time on Tuesday, January 8. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Good luck to all!</span></div>
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<br />Fleurdeleohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02302048075544358448noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6410308123411703717.post-41867390030289340442012-12-29T16:50:00.001-08:002012-12-29T16:50:58.624-08:00Haiku Monday: Sea Change<br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Unfettered tresses;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">locks tossed like twigs onto flames</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">ignite; hear them roar.</span></div>
<br />Fleurdeleohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02302048075544358448noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6410308123411703717.post-11555636482296450942012-12-17T19:21:00.000-08:002012-12-17T19:21:13.153-08:00Haiku Monday: Resolution<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Somnolent seedling</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">labors through April's chilled berth;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">courted by the sun.</span></div>
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<br />Fleurdeleohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02302048075544358448noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6410308123411703717.post-51707335097122500582012-12-09T13:54:00.000-08:002012-12-09T18:11:41.190-08:00Haiku Monday: Class<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Silken angel braid</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">soaked in inkwell's oily pool.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The payback's a bitch.</span><br />
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