My raconteur ways,
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Tag Archives: haiku
Hard Learned
Poem, NPM Make-Day 1
Hard learned yet simple:
Live and give unsparingly,
head, heart, hands and soul.
— ava wood
The Diamond Days
Poem, Day 27
Blinding diamond days
do come once the world’s weight wanes—
cleansed, altered, wondrous
— ava wood
Alter-Ego
Poem, Day 25
my alter-ego:
at times valaida wouldn’t,
ergo ava wood.
Between Them
I am through with him.
At least that’s what I told him.
Truth…lies…between them.
— ava wood
Poem, Day 24
Haiku again, in the nick of time, just before midnight. I have numerous make-up days for the April days that I missed. I’ll catch up in time. — VF
Day 16
Gave away my soul
Giving back to get it back
Given what I know
Poem, Day 16
After returning from the University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff (UAPB), which held a reception and program in conjunction with The Soul of Philanthropy exhibit, today I’m re-posting a featured haiku from my book and exhibit. I wrote this one about five or six years ago on a day I was playing around with various idioms and conjugated forms of the verb to give. The haiku emerged pretty quickly and effortlessly and it perfectly sums up my thoughts, then and now.
The UAPB exhibit in Hathaway-Howard Fine Arts Center was beautiful and filled with students wandering through. Below are some photos from my Arkansas visit. — VF
Love and Happiness
Funny how this album cover and the songs within made such an impression on me at such a young age. Fans of Al Green’s music, my parents of course had this hit album in the Seventies. At the time, that white wicker chair was the most regal thing I had ever beheld. Al’s cool, confident pose, the white shag carpeting, the hanging asparagus fern and everything pictured on the cover fed my budding notions of style and romanticism. To this day, Al Green remains my favorite soul singer, every song on the album can move my tender heart to tears, and I’ll forever consider myself Al’s greatest fan.
Apparently, I’m hardly the only one influenced by the album. Rolling Stone has ranked “I’m Still In Love With You” among the greatest albums of all time.
Today, April 13, is Al Green’s birthday and coincidentally I find myself en route to The Soul of Philanthropy exhibit opening in Arkansas, the home state of my beloved soul singer. Since it’s National Poetry Month (and I’m behind on my daily poem posts), below is an inspired haiku. And I bet you can guess who I’ll be listening to during today’s flight to Little Rock. — VF
Poem, Day 13
Love and Happiness
Joys never to be without
yet found first within
Day 8
My momma worries.
I keep telling her I’m good.
She can’t help it though.
Poem, Day 8
Out late on Day 8, so this is one, in barely by the skin of my teeth. I’m keeping it super simple yet true.
peace of ice
Poem, Day 6
Chill with this re-blogged haiku tonight :~)
Dawn’s damp chill hanging
behold divinity etched
Master’s piece in ice
— Ava Wood
Everything
Poem, Day 4
Give it a real go.
Give it everything you got.
And give it some time.
ava wood
♦
This month, on April 27, I’ll mark nine years since the idea for the Giving Back Project seized upon me while attending a philanthropy conference in Seattle.
If nothing else, this journey of nearly 3285 days has taught me the three points composing the haiku above, which was posted in observance of National Poetry Month. So when you choose to pursue something meaningful, dream big, prepare well, go hard…and hang on tight for the dizzying roller coaster ride! — VF
