---Shop News--- Poem in Your Pocket Day!

Next Week is Poem in Your Pocket Day April 24th!  Check out the link for fun ways to celebrate!  It is a great way to introduce kids to poetry!  If you have been following my blog you know, by now, that I adore poetry.  I have since I was a young girl.  There is something about so much being said with fewer words that has always attracted me to poems.

I have come to find out that I just might, maybe, be in some sort of minority when it comes to poetry love.  My DH & son considered my reading poetry aloud to them as a sort of punishment...which I admit to using at times when I thought there was some very minor & silly infraction.  Well, I can be become obsessed with an idea.  Like I did with my little Handspun Handwoven Haiku Weavette Ornaments at the InJoyEmporium Etsy Shop.  I sort of made a ton of them. I have new ideas brewing for the Emporium Shop so letting go for a song <---which are mostly poems with music added!

So in the spirit of sharing poetry for EACH $8.00 Haiku Ornament you purchase you will receive a FREE Haiku Ornament!  The perfect gift for Poem in Your Pocket Day!

Here are just a FEW examples of my Japanese Haiku Creations

https://www.etsy.com/listing/186590931/green-turquoise-ocean-trees-ornament?ref=shop_home_active_9

https://www.etsy.com/listing/108591005/pink-ornament-wedding-favor-haiku-small?ref=shop_home_active_12

https://www.etsy.com/listing/186586688/pink-peony-siamese-cat-wall-hanging?ref=shop_home_active_8

In Celebration of National Poetry Month an Etsy POEM Treasury!

https://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTcxMjU5OTF8MjcyMzQ5MTU2Mw/april-national-poetry-month?ref=pr_treasury

HAPPY POETRY MONTH!

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