I hope that everyone had a safe and happy holiday season and that 2021 will turn a corner and get better! The start of the year was a bit sluggish for me in returning to making art and posting here – I had some potential COVID exposures at work and daycare. It turned out okay and neither myself nor anyone else in either place tested positive or got sick thanks to protocols in place and strategic closures. But it does devour all of one’s mental energy.
I have a new post going up on Friday and the theme of the upcoming post reminded me of this one, a fun haiku by Tricia Knoll. She is a very active Vermont-based poet and you can see all her upcoming events and poems at her website: triciaknoll.com
Original text of the post:
“This haiku puts a grin on my face every time I read it. And it never fails to launch me on an extended trip down memory lane as well – from the greenhouse in my grandparents’ backyard to one I visited once in Iceland. I consider this one of the superpowers of the haiku: they are a reservoir of memories stored in present tense words. Ms. Tricia Knoll is an award-winning poet working and living in Portland, Oregon. Her website, triciaknoll.com, has more of her wonderful haiku as well as links to many of her published poems and books – I definitely recommend a visit! Painting (acrylic on cardboard), digital collage, and composition by me. Have a wonderful weekend!”
Illustrated Poetry 
It makes me smile, too! Brings back the greenhouse that my parents built onto the back of their house. Thanks for the poem that sparked this memory!
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Thank you, Jilanne! My pleasure! My grandfather had a hothouse for orchids when I was a kid (his retirement project) and there were a lot of fun adventures and flights of fancy to be had in there (as long as we didn’t touch the orchids) – a special room full of plants has such the possibility to spark imagination!
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I love the motion of this and the red on red. I too am thinking of encounters with ladybugs (how DO they get into a 5th floor apartment in NYC?) (K)
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Thank you, Kerfe! Between Issa’s spiders and Knoll’s ladybugs, its been a trip down bug memory lane 🙂
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Thanks!
Tricia Knoll
*Poetry collections -*
– *How I Learned to Be White* (available on Amazon ) received the 2018 Indie Book Award for Motivational Poetry. – *Broadfork Farm –* poems about a small organic farm in Trout Lake, Washington, its people and creatures is available on Amazon and from The Poetry Box. – *Ocean’s Laughter*, a book of lyric and eco-poetry about Manzanita, Oregon. Look at * Amazon.com or for *Reviews. – *Urban Wild*, a poetry chapbook available from Finishing Line Press that explores interactions of humans and wildlife in urban habitat.
*Website: triciaknoll.com * *twitter:@ triciaknollwind* *Amazon author page *
On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 1:16 PM Illustrated Poetry wrote:
> Marcy Erb posted: ” I hope that everyone had a safe and happy holiday > season and that 2021 will turn a corner and get better! The start of the > year was a bit sluggish for me in returning to making art and posting here > – I had some potential COVID exposures at work and d” >
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Always my pleasure!
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Tricia is so cool. And thanks to you (and her) I know about Wordgathering, which is also cool. I’m so relieved that you came out of your potential exposure unscathed. I never thought the words “protocols in place” and “strategic closures” could be so sexy but aren’t they though?
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They are very sexy phrases these days! 😀
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