Photo: @LenaSchreijenberg

Je t’embrasse

The photo is taken by @LenaSchreijenberg
I submit this haiku to Haiku my Heart

Thanks for stopping by,
Je t’embrasse

I’ve been away from the internet for a while… and I was even longer absent in the haiku-circle. I planned a haiku-post last week but the news of Leonard Cohen’s death hit me hard and I couldn’t do more than post the images of my Leonard Cohen art journal again (see last week’s post.)

The week passed by.
Cohen’s music filled the room and outside my window, seagulls screamed.

I needed to withdraw from the online world for a while, hiding and spending time with my beloved. But now I’m back online. Blogging. Waving.

Leonard Cohen died, the election in the USA has shocked me but I’m back in my atelier picking up the pieces, moving on and connecting with the Haiku My Heart circle again.

And then there’s some spreads from the ‘Chronicles’ art journal that I have not shown you before. It’s odd, that the first spread is all about Cohen’s latest album…

The Chronicles of Marit 2016 – Week 42

I added the review from the newspaper to my page that you can flip…

… the text on the back says: “What a wonderful, beautiful new album by Mr. Cohen. It is a comfort to know that this man exists. It is a pleasure to be able to listen to his music.”

And one more

The Chronicles of Marit 2016 – Week 43

I’m moving on.
Day by day
thought by thought.

Thanks for stopping by.

Besides the locals (campsite owners, shop keepers, restaurant owners) there’s another species content about the high season…
seagulls!

{Photo found on the internet: Gerdje}

Whatever season it may be in your part of the world: enjoy!

I submit this haiku to Haiku my Heart.

Not only can people order the magazine, they also can buy a square inch space
on the back cover of the magazine – and this is where my idea came from.

The information says that you should send in ‘art inchies’  only
because it is almost impossible to read text on a square inch.
Yes, I know the info says that, I wrote that myself!

But…

… what about haiku?
Haiku doesn’t have much words.
Would that work?
So I experimented a bit.
See what I did.

..

I wrote my weekly haiku and I put the poem on the photo.

In English, the last sentence doesn’t have the right amount of syllables.
In Dutch it does.

Zeemeeuw op de pier
op een grauwe, grijze dag
snavel in de wind

OK, nice.
Now scale it to a square inch and see what happens.
Hm.

Not readable, indeed.

I don’t give up easily, so I tried only text.
Black on white.
Would that work?

Hahaaa… yes – on the screen it works.
What about printing this one in the right size.

See for yourself (click on the photo to enlarge)

Conclusion: if you put just a few words in black on white,
readable text CAN be printed on a square inch!

This offers prospects for the ones among you that don’t make art, but
would like to buy an ‘inchie’ and see their haiku in print on the back cover
of the magazine. How nice is that?

For more haiku and photos: visit the list of participants on
Recuerda Mi Corazon

For information about FEATURING magazine: visit
www.featuringmagazine.com

For more sunshine: come on over to the Netherlands today.
I can be find in my small back garden, enjoying this lovely Spring day.
I serve coffee, tea and (in case you arrive late) chilled white wine.

Count your blessings and enjoy the weekend dear ones!