tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14130664241316371652011-04-21T13:31:13.213-07:00Angelika Kolompar Renville Bygotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03339481929904914863noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1413066424131637165.post-6212752825323182462007-01-29T06:09:00.000-08:002007-01-29T06:39:31.163-08:00<a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_vKprnlBDdHU/Rb4HCaG_q5I/AAAAAAAAAA0/IuZQK6v_1gc/s1600-h/Picture+291.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5025461972141845394" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_vKprnlBDdHU/Rb4HCaG_q5I/AAAAAAAAAA0/IuZQK6v_1gc/s320/Picture+291.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">I am looking forward to chinese new year next month.</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">I have not written many haiku this month. Hugh Bygott is revising my book, Vancouver island Poetry. I have started writing a series of short stories about the blue-irised men i have met in my life. Hugh is editing the first one. I wrote 30 tanka last year and will write more this year and then will look for a publisher. I plan on going to the World Haiku Association conference in Tokyo in September. It will be good to met David at Ashai/International Tribune who has been publishing my haiku since 2000. My art greeting card project is doing well. So far Sandra Moorhouse-Good and i have printed 8 of her art and my haiku. I wrote 30 haiku for her paintings last March and we will print more of them soon. I need to do marketing for them now.</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">When i am in Japan i will look for a publisher for both of my haiku and tanka books and also the greeting cards.</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">We have had a few real wintery days here on the island and i have enjoyed them. I like the brish cold and clear days with sunshine. I can see the mountians of the Sunshine Coast from my windows.</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">Yesterday i went out with a new Dragon Boat team that i am thinking of joining. They are very professional and competitive and i will like the challenge. It was below zero and we were paddling through ice. I forgot my gloves and one finger was bleeding. I fell flat on my face getting out of the boat. The handle of my paddle came off too. What a great first impression i </span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">made!!! The team is called BlueByu and was the top placed team last year.</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">I did a poetry reading last week of a few of my tanka. I have kept to the 5-7-5-7-7 formulae most of the time.</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">Here are a few:</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">Along the old path</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">to the winding blue river</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">yellow, pink, white flags</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">i hear your steps come close by</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">my heart starts to beat too fast</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">Fog-filled hills</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">mist rising here and there now</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">the sun can't get through them yet</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">my heart too is in hiding</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">in a deep quiet, lonely place</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">Cat at the window</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">sits looking dwon on ocean</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">rain streaks the view</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">fishing boats are returning</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">full of wild sockeye salmon</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">On this dark grey day</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">my thoughts wander to a pair</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">of blue irises</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">his eyes so dear to me now</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">that he is gone from my life</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">A bone scan today</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">on the way three birds on the</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">rose-scented old path</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">my hear is beating wildly</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">i am so afraid to know</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">Flying to your island</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">you say in your letter</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">how easy it would be</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">but i have my life here now</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">how do i leave this old one</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">Staring at the screen</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">waiting for you on MSN</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">you on your island</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">mine surrounded by cedars</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">as the eagle hovers</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#3333ff;">Along the old path</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1413066424131637165-621275282532318246?l=angelikahaiku.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Angelika Kolompar Renville Bygotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03339481929904914863noreply@blogger.com1