Haiku Moments

[crafty mike]

Funny... there is a guy that does that on another forum I post on too.

Yeah, I've seen a few figures where it's getting more popular. It really grew outside Japan after WWII. The mechanical part is easy (5-7-5), but there is really an art to making it work poetically. I don't quite get it. It's one of those graceful things where you might have it or you don't.

 

[beautress]

I'm on another forum where this guy only posts in haiku. No matter if he is starting a thread or replying. Quite the hoot.

Some guy speaks haiku?
On another talking board?
Must be a genius!

 

[beautress]

Some guy speaks haiku?
On another talking board?
Must be a genius!

Round desktop covered
With Number 10 crochet threads
White and blue colors

 

[beautress]

Making potholders
And matching washrags for church
Cotton is the best

Store-boughten washrags
Now made of synthetic thread
have no absorption

To make matters worse
Boiling can melt synthetics
Cotton takes high heat.

So I don't mind it
Each rag takes fifteen hours
Potholders, thirty.

It's worth all the time
Where sanitation has need
For healthy living.

We give God our best
So others' lives are improved
Clean as a whistle.

 

[beautress]

staring at old quilt
with thousands of one-inch squares
a collection prize

 

[beautress]

visual artists
appreciate fiber art
of passed woman's hands

 

[justoffal]

staring at old quilt
with thousands of one-inch squares
a collection prize

Black and white Checkered;
The silent jihad has come!
Kaffiyeh....Kaboom!

 

[justoffal]

Making potholders
And matching washrags for church
Cotton is the best

Store-boughten washrags
Now made of synthetic thread
have no absorption

To make matters worse
Boiling can melt synthetics
Cotton takes high heat.

So I don't mind it
Each rag takes fifteen hours
Potholders, thirty.

It's worth all the time
Where sanitation has need
For healthy living.

We give God our best
So others' lives are improved
Clean as a whistle.

Very nice

 

[beautress]

Black and white Checkered;
The silent jihad has come!
Kaffiyeh....Kaboom!

a lifetime of sewing
may give one thousands of scraps
pieced in the fifties

one hundred minute squares
multiply with 2hundred- forty;
twenty-four thousand.

 

[beautress]

wind and water day
heavy rain and flooded lake
tomorrow the same

 

[beautress]

unlike yesterday
torrent beset the front yard
lake 'Flower Garden'
<giggle>

 

[beautress]

More rain and more rain
Someone erased the phone page
Emergency call gone.

 

[beautress]

driving tomorrow
In unfamiliar white truck
Not my favorite

 

[lg325]

Nighttime stroll warm breeze
honeybee on magnolia
cold drink goes down well

 

[beautress]

bleak skies and gray clouds
overlook emerald world
bright grass and very green leaves
hiding my teardrops

 

[beautress]

clearer skies today
but viewed from third floor window
With pain in left chest

 

[lg325]

clearer skies today
but viewed from third floor window
With pain in left chest

 

[Larsky]

Cicadas about
Basking in the warming soil
Ready to sing out

 

[beautress]

good morn tall pine world
sweet blue sky with cirrus clouds
view from three oh one

 

[beautress]

Black and white Checkered;
The silent jihad has come!
Kaffiyeh....Kaboom!

The one I have was bought online from someone who had no idea they were selling a virtual treasure with skillfully planned geometric design, plus the maker embroidered her own flower garden on the quilt tops planned blank 90 degree diamond squares, not to mention the alternate 1" squares so artfully placed I can't even describe its excellence. I paid well under $70 for a quilt I would appraise in the range of $20,000. I own a quilt store since 1987. But. This summer I am restarting crochet work. It is so hot here quilting a quilt for warmth is not in any plan.!!! I'm under the magic cool fan right now. Have a great evening. This has to be the hottest week this summer.