Poem in Your Pocket Day!

http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/406

TODAY IS POEM IN YOUR POCKET DAY!

I can't think of a better way to celebrate than with HAIKU...the quintessential pocket poem...my humble opinion!  (I am sort of obsessed with HAIKU)

To celebrate my obsession I am doing my first blog GIVEAWAY!

I will pick THREE winners at random.

To win you just need to leave a comment here at the blog (facebook doesn't count). I will make a random drawing from all the comments left between now and midnight Sunday the 21st (one chance per person).  

What you will win ----> is your CHOICE from my Etsy Shop section QUOTE love notes.  I will contacted

the winners and they can let me know what listing they would like and their shipping address via email!

injoyemporium@gmail.com

THIS IS THE SHOP SECTION

https://www.etsy.com/shop/InJoyEmporium?section_id=10969643

SHOP WIDE SALE

SAVE 15% on EVERYTHING coupon code INJOY15

expires April 30th 

www.injoyemporium.etsy.com

Meanwhile ENJOY these traditional Japanese spring HAIKUs

FIRST DREAM OF THE YEAR....

I KEPT IT A DARK SECRET...

SMILING TO MYSELF

SHO-U

SPRING MORNING MARVEL...

LOVELY NAMELESS LITTLE HILL

ON A SEA OF MIST

BASHO

RAINFALL IN APRIL...

TEARS FROM OUR WEEPING WILLOW

PETALS FROM OUR PLUM

SHOHA

FALLEN NOW TO EARTH

AFTER DANCING JOURNEYS...

KITE THAT LOST ITS SOUL

KUBONTA

BUT IF I HELD IT...COULD I TOUCH

THE LIGHTNESS OF THIS

FLUTTER BUTTERFLY?

BUSON

ULTRA-PINK PEONY...

SILVER SIAMESE SOFT CAT

GOLD-DUST BUTTERFLY

BUSON

GREEN...GREEN...GREEN...

WILLOW-LEAF THREADS ARE SLIDING

RIVER-RUNNING-WATER

ONITSURA

MOONLIGHT STILLNESS

LIGHTS THE PETALS

FALLING...FALLING...

ON THE SILENCED LUTE

SHIKI

OVER MY SHOULDER...

MY FRIENDS WHO

FOLLOWED ME WERE LOST

IN CLOUDS OF BLOSSOMS

CHORA

BLUE EVENING SEA...

FROM SPRING ISLANDS NEAR & FAR

NEW LIGHTS ARE SHINING

SHIKI

RIVERBANK PLUM-TREE...

DO YOUR REFLECTED BLOSSOMS

REALLY FLOW AWAY?

BUSON

EVEN THE OCEAN RISING &

FALLING ALL DAY...

SIGHING GREEN LIKE TREES

BUSON

FARMER, RAISE YOUR HEAD...

DIRECT THIS STRANGE

WHO WILL SMILE & DISAPPEAR

BUSON

HAZY PONDED MOON & PALE NIGHT SKY

ARE BROKEN...

BUNGLING BLACK FROG

BUSON

ICICLES & WATER

OLD DIFFERENCES DISSOLVED..

DRIP DOWN TOGETHER

TEISHITSU

Pause & See

A leaf that looks like a button or a mask...?

And for those who had the blues during the grays....

Still some Grey

sunshine shadows

casts a moment in time

enchanting instant

orah

This a regular feature I plan to include in this blog.  I try to see something new each day.  It is part of my practice in "seeing".  The art of seeing is essential to any creative work in my humble opinion.  My favorites are the ones that stop me in my tracks!  Like so many folks I have a very busy mind that I struggle to quiet.  But by creating this practice it has given me many opportunities to pause and be with a new wonder.  I love to wonder about wonders.  These little seeings can be just the jolt my creative process needs to get out of a rut.  But mostly they provide a pause which is that moment of peace I need to heal from a frustration. These seeings are grounding for me and bring me to the present.  I will admit to laughing out loud with joy over some of these discoveries. They are a moment of childlike wonder!