52 Haiku Week 3
Here’s my haiku for the week: Birds twitter outside Light floods through my window blinds But I am still cold Originally posted on 52 Haiku
Author Archives: Carma Spence
Smoking Man
Sometimes a person I meet will conjure images in my mind. Sometimes it is their name that inspires the image, as it did with Ralis Kahn, who I met at Haunt X (he’s a special effects make-up artist, not much like my character sketch). The following sketch came to mind […]
52 Haiku Week 2
Yikes! I’m a day late. But better late than never. Here’s my haiku for the week. Blue crystal water Concentric circles spiral and flow from her hand Originally posted on 52 Haiku
52 Haiku Week 1
Here’s my haiku for the week: The challenge is here Are you up to it, my friend? I believe you are Originally posted on 52 Haiku
Coming Soon …
Are you ready for Fifty-two Haiku’s Challenge? One haiku a week! The contest starts next Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2008. Originally posted on 52 Haiku
The Power of Childhood Toys
Last night I caught up on some old The Simpsons episodes recorded by our Tivo. One of them was “Rosebud” where Mr. Burns longs for his childhood teddy bear, Bobo. It made me think of something that happened during our recent move out to Phoenix, Az. The day the movers […]
Show the World a Grin
1983 was a year a great angst for me. I wanted so much to have a boyfriend … didn’t happen. I was having issues with friends … my ADD-induced social cluelessness didn’t help. So, a lot of my poetry from that year deals with love and frustration and teen angst. […]
Pretty Flower
In 1983, I did an independent study focused on my creative writing. I sat behind the teacher as he taught one class, and did my own thing. That’s why I have so much stuff to post from that year. During that course, I seemed quite fixated on war. The Boy […]