Marit's Paper World (blog)

Friday haiku: dense fog

Marit — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 10:58:34 +0000

In de dichte mist
varen luchtbalonnen op
wind en vertrouwen

Two hot air balloons
sailing by in the dense fog
on wind and belief

Photo: @LenaSchreijenberg
I submit this haiku to Haiku my Heart

Je t’embrasse

Friday haiku – mist

Marit — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:31:25 +0000

A sunny morning, good morning! Sunny yes, but earlier today the fog hung low over the fields as this photo shows (taken by my friend on her way to work.)

Friday haiku

Photo made by my friend Lena Schreijenberg

Mistflarden laten
zich niet tegenhouden door
een boer en zijn hek

Fog patches
cannot be stopped by a
farmer and his fence

I submit this haiku to Recuerda Mi Corazon where our lovely hostess Rebecca brings us all together to share a haiku on Friday: Haiku my Heart.

The nice Spring weather makes me wanna go outside so I didn’t spend much time to the translation of the haiku. Sorry folks, the English version hasn’t the right amount of syllables. You will forgive me for that, right?!

There’s nothing ‘artsy’ to show you today either, you’ll have to do with this misty photo only… Oh, and this music, ’cause misty landscapes always makes me think of King Arthur stories, Avalon landscapes and this song.

Friday haiku and giggles

Marit — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 09:36:16 +0000

Goodmorning lovely ones, here’s a Friday note from foggy Netherlands… yes, the city is covered in a blanket and all is quiet outside. My friend Lena, who lives in a nearby village, cycled through the misty fields this morning to go to her work in the city. Halfway, she got off her bike to take this picture.

Friday haiku

Photo made by my friend Lena Schreijenberg

Mistig akkerland
een mus in de boom, kunnen
vogels verdwalen?

Fog over the fields
a Sparrow in the tree, do
birds get lost at times?

I submit this haiku to Recuerda Mi Corazon where our lovely hostess Rebecca brings us all together to share a haiku on Friday: Haiku my Heart.

Above photo and haiku are rather quiet but the next thing I’d like to show is the opposite… FUN & LOUD! As you know, I am an art journal artist but a couple of weeks ago I got stuck in my work and decided to create something else, just for a change and to find back the ‘fun’ of creating. I thought about coloring-books, but there’s not much fun in coloring the images others made for you.. so I turned to an old hobby of mine: scrapbooking! I found a Dutch challenge Facebook group that provides themes and sketches to get you started and I took this sketch to work with.

Next, I got out the box filled with all kinds of photos (nothing organised there…) and found these pictures, taken in 2016 by Anda van Riet in the Community Center nearby my former apartment. I lived in a big apartment-building for four years and although I was over-the-moon happy to move out, there’s one man I miss… neighbor Hansie! (Well of course we can visit each other – we still live in the same, small town – we just don’t live a couple of doors away from each other anymore…)

… anyway, Hans and I always had great fun and giggles when we got together. We both visited the Community Center on a regular base where they called us “Frick & Frack” and labelled Hans to be “Marit’s second husband” (and since Hans is super-duper gay, I didn’t mind to have him as a bonus-spouse 😉 )

As I said, I wanted to re-discover the fun of creating and nothing better than to use these photos to do that. I took out all the ‘happy paper ‘n stuff’ I could find in my stash and created this layout.

A good neighbour is worth more than a distant friend

On the bigger photo, there’s a curtain hanging in front of Hans’ head so I gave him a crown to cover the curtain… “King Hans” – can you tell I felt like a playful child while making this?

I’m all back into the flow now, and hope to get back to art journaling this weekend.
I wish you a beautiful weekend too.
Hug your loved ones.
Give your neighbor a crown.
Have a giggle.
Enjoy!

February fog

Marit — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:00:30 +0000

Last week I thought back to Found Poetry Friday – the series I posted from July 2013 until December last year… and I thought it was time to ‘find me’ a poem again… only, I did not have time to sit at my desk and go through my stash of cut out words and sentences. I’m terribly busy doing other stuff right now and I must be very economic using the spare time that is left to create all for myself. So instead of spending hours playing with cut out sentences, I wrote a haiku with the photo I took last February. It is also my opportunity to submit this post to Haiku My Heart and join the haiku group at Rebecca’s blog Recuerda Mi Corazon once again.

Mist in de avond
mijn wereld vernauwt zich tot
vierkante meters

Fog in the evening
my world narrows down to just
a few square meters

Hope your day is – like mine – full of sunshine but if you experience fog I hope you can see its beauty too!