{"id":15165,"date":"2013-12-06T00:30:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T23:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/?p=15165"},"modified":"2013-12-05T21:17:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T20:17:40","slug":"found-poetry-friday-13-in-honor-of-joe-spadoman-spado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/found-poetry-friday-13-in-honor-of-joe-spadoman-spado\/","title":{"rendered":"Found Poetry Friday #13 (in honor of Joe “Spadoman” Spado)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I love poetry.
\nI am especially fond of ‘found poetry’, and I mean found in all its forms… found in book titles, found in magazines, on book pages, cut out words and sentences – you name it. There is so much possible when it comes to ‘found poetry’… and this kind of poetry is also great to use on art journal pages also.<\/p>\n

I therefore started FOUND POETRY FRIDAY – everyone is welcome to play along!<\/p>\n

There is an “Inlinkz”-list at the end of this post<\/strong>. If you want to share your found poems, you are welcome to add your name to the list that will link us to your blogpost.<\/p>\n

You can post your found poem on your own blog any time during the week, so you don’t have to make YOUR Fridays all about poetry – you just link us to the post that contains your poem. Please use the url that goes directly to you ‘found poetry post.’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today I want to dedicate my Poetry Friday post to Joe “Spadoman” Spado – a dear friend of mine who suddenly passed away last week. I first “met” Joe on a Friday in May 2011, because that was when I joined the “Haiku My Heart” group.\u00a0 “Haiku My Heart” is a weekly event, hosted by Rebecca from Recuerda Mi Corazon<\/a> – and Joe was part of the haiku-circle. When I started writing haiku and joined the circle, I visited his blog weekly and we almost immediately had a ‘click’… we not only visited each other’s blogs but we also started to correspond via email, and last year, we agreed to swap our work…<\/p>\n

Now let me tell you that Joe knew a lot about Native American traditions – in my eyes he was sort of a shaman himself {sorry Joe, I know you find that too much credit – but to me you were!} and he made the most beautiful dream catchers (among other things, like snow shoes…) I really admired his work! He did not want to be called an artist though – he prefered the term ‘craftsman’… but however we called it, we decided to make something special for each other and swap our ‘work\/art’… I would create a special canvas for him and he would make me a dream cather…<\/p>\n

But Joe did not start working on the dream catcher right away – oh no… he wanted to know an awful lot about me first – as that was necessary to make the dream catcher fit, he explained… and so I received email after email, asking me\u00a0 what my favorite animal was. And if I had an animal totem. In one email he said “For some reason, I am feeling fire and ice for you. I don’t know why. Do you dream about water?” – to make a long story short – we exchanged quite some information about ourselves, our youth, our lifes, our dreams and our goals…. and finaly, after months, a package came in the mail.<\/p>\n

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[The haiku on this photo is written by me and I submit it to Haiku My Heart Friday<\/a> – in honor of my friend Joe]<\/em><\/p>\n

There was a letter in the package too, that said:<\/p>\n

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I was speechless when I saw this piece of art (yes, ART Joe…!!!) and by using all the symbolic materials and ways of weaving he had managed to capture me so well…<\/p>\n

And I?
\nI’d send him this small canvas…<\/p>\n

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The circles contain all sorts of patterns – each pattern\u00a0 symbolicly picturing a different side of Joe.
\nThe words\/sentences collaged on this piece say “Whither are you journeying? Into the wide world!”<\/p>\n

Joe loved to travel and I like to believe he is driving his motor cycle again and that he is on his way to experience the best journey ever…<\/p>\n

I wrote a haiku – and returned to join the haiku-circle this week – in honor of Joe “Spadoman” Spado.
\nThis week, you are welcome to share either your haiku or a found poem…<\/p>\n

Use the InLinkz list below to leave a link to your poetry post.<\/p>\n

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