I’ve decided to try to create a “haiga sort of image” for Mother Nature, a poem inspired by Catrin Welz-Stein’s Listen, which was posted yesterday as a response to the dVerse prompt Let the Words Be Your Paintbrush! from Lillian at dVerse ~ Poets Pub. I’ve attempted two different text formats with Catrin’s image
Mother Nature
Below, as above
the mother of all
that is interconnected
holds true in her vision
of what is right.
She cannot do otherwise.
It is in her nature.
The artwork of Catrin Welz-Stein can be found here.
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Nicely done, Ken. I like the way you have the text in the first one better.
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Thank you Merril. Yes, I think it creates better framing.
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Ditto vote for #1.
And the verse is outstanding, KG. Well done.
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Thanks, Ron. 🙂
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Mother nature at her best. Love the framing of words, side by side, yet connected.
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Thank you, Grace. It was a fun experiment.
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She cannot do otherwise, it is in her nature. LOVING this affirmation.
And it’s so amazing to see how you’ve placed the words over the image itself. I think I like the second rendition the most. I know Catrin is looking at the posts….I hope she sees this one! In the second illustration, not only do the words flow in the poem as a standalone, they also flow around her. Just beautiful and so clever to do this!
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Yes Lillian, the 2nd version does encompass the face in a very cool way.
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Thank you, Lillian. 🙂
I’ve modified that image further by wrapping the letters around her brow and weaving the “roots” through and over some of the letters.
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Killer Ken, and #1 reads the smoothest.
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Thanks, Rob.
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I like both but, I feel a pull towards the 2nd one. I find it symbolic that the mother of all is center stage over her head.
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Thank you. That’s what I like about that one.
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Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #6: Ken Gierke’s latest #haiga for #dVersePoets #TuesdayPoetics!
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Thank you for sharing this, Frank. 🙂
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The gold lettering is just right. (K)
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Thank you, Kerfe.
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Beautiful
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Thank you.
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My pleasure Ken
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What a wonderful idea, Ken. Very creative and works so well.
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Thank you, Lisa.
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Lovely words that resonate for sometime inside the head.
If I had to choose, I would go for the second format, where the words flow and spread.
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Thank you. I had fun playing with both of those images.
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I love that it is in her nature.
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Thanks, Björn. And it seems to be the nature of Man to take her for granted.
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Love both of these, but the second caught my fancy, as the words around her head seemed to be flowers.
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Thank you, Sara.
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kaykuala
She cannot do otherwise.
It is in her nature.
Mother nature by nature offers the protection so needed
Hank
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Yes. Thank you, Hank.
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