For Haiku my Heart

Hello Friday, Hello Friends!

I managed to compose another book title haiku for you, but I am almost done with it as I used up most of the books in my bookcase that have the right syllables in the titles… I am at a point that I use titles that has been used in a book title haiku before – combining them differently to get another haiku – but the end is near… somewhere this Summer, these book title haiku’s will stop and I have to decide if I go back to writing haiku (submitting to Haiku my Heart) OR start a new series “Found Poetry Friday” (which will give me more freedom to ‘compose poems’ than haiku…)  What do you think?

Anyway – for now – here’s another Book title Haiku!

And of course I submit my haiku to Haiku my Heart Friday

Some of you may have noticed that I did not post any pages from the “Chronicles” journal lately… that’s right. When things are not going well, this is what happens…

Chronicles of Marit 2013 – Week 19
[an attempt to journal, but not finished]

Chronicles of Marit 2013 – Week 20 – 21 – 22
[‘black weeks’ in which I did nothing…]

Chronicles of Marit 2013 – Week 23 – 21 – 22
[cautious attempt to resume art journaling]

… and week 24 is looking better even… I’m working on it!

I DID make
a lot of collages
on index cards –
for the Box of Longing
and for ICAD

 The Smell of Fields Before Harvest

The Crystal Clarity of a Night

The Intimacy of Conversations on the Road

And that’s it dear ones… thanks for visiting me again.
I wish you all a nice weekend with Crystal Clear Nights and Intimate Conversations.

Book title Haiku #5 for Haiku my Heart Friday

(“Oss” is a village in the Netherlands…)

Some of you asked about the book title haiku… and how I find them.
I find it in fact easier to compose a book title haiku then to write
a haiku myself. Anyone can do it – really, YOU can too!

Because I have no art to show you today, I thought you might like
to know how I make my book title haiku.

First of all: you need a lot of books.
(Ha, you didn’t feel that coming, did you?)

I happen to have a huge book collection.
This photo of my book case is taken a few years back – I have to admit
that today the ‘book case boxes’ are filled from top to bottom and it does
not look as organized anymore…

You have to take some time for the next step.
Take a notebook and view your books from top left to bottom down.
Jott down all the titles that have 5 or 7 syllables.

(This took me about an hour. I looked only at the books in the living room
– there are book cases upstairs too but I left those titles out, as they are
most technique and study books)

Make two long lists.
One with the titles that have 5 syllables (seen on the left) and
one with the titles that have 7 syllables (seen on the right)

Now the fun part starts! Puzzle!!

Combine titles left-right-left (5-7-5)
The more titles you have on your list, the more choice you have.
I made myself the promise that I cannot use the same title twice, so
I mark the titles that have been used. Finding haiku will get more
difficult the farther I go, but for now the choices are many so I probably
have some weeks/months to go before I run out of nice haiku.

If you start a ‘book title haiku series’ yourself, please let me know and
leave the link in a comment. I would love to see your take on it!

Two more things before I’m off….

• Did you vote for the top 2000 yet?
  Today is the last day to do that – you can vote until 8 pm CET
  Read this post to find out what I’m talking about.

• You can now register for the MIXED EMOTIONS
  ONLINE ART JOURNALING WORKSHOP that I
  will be teaching next year with Michelle LaPoint – Rydell.
  Classes start on February 4, 2013.
  We’d LOVE to have you join us!
  Click here to find out more about it and/or register.

OK… that was it.
I wish you all a happy weekend!
Go find a haiku!