In my autumn years
I realise that within
were spring and summer
Welcome to the first TJ’s Household Haiku Challenge for 2016! The prompt for this week is “Container”. We have all sorts of containers in the house so what does your real or metaphorical container hold? Please do share links to your posts in the comments below and if you can include a snap of your container for other to enjoy, all the better.
On New Year’s Day in Perth there is an antique fair and I picked up these two Japanese dolls from the 1950’s for a mere $2 each. When I go home I was cleaning them up and suddenly one pulled apart and this was the result!
Similar to Russian Matryoshka nesting dolls these little dolls have movable heads and are hand painted in bright colours. My sister who was visiting at the time played with the smallest doll only to find it too contained a minute baby little bigger than a grain of rice with a sweet little face painted on it.
I hope your New year contains many wonderful surprises and happy memories! Best wishes to all you haikuists out there!
TJ
The last prompt for 2015 was “Magnet/attraction” which led to some wonderfully creative contributions.
Bastet was first in this week with the fatal temptation of deliciousness. Cool image too!
https://bastetandsekhmet.wordpress.com/2015/12/27/21424/
Tucked int a corner has explored the dicotomy of attraction and repulsion in these great trio of haiku.
https://tuckedintoacorner.wordpress.com/2015/12/27/household-haiku-attraction/https://tuckedintoacorner.wordpress.com/2015/12/27/household-haiku-attraction/
The Recovering Know it All has a tale in the candlelight well worth reading.
Judy of the ever entertaining “Edwina’s Episodes” has confessed a attraction here…
http://edwinasepisodes.com/2015/12/27/tjs-household-haiku-challenge-attraction/
Welcome Olga from “Stuff and what if” who has created a very charming haiku matched to her own image with a wonderful festive twist.
https://odaciuk.wordpress.com/2015/12/27/t-j-s-household-haiku-challenge-attraction/
Elusive Trope is facing his fears in this haiku in high places.
http://elusivetrope.com/2015/12/28/the-attic/
Nature at work her in this lovely haiku from Kat Myrman
https://kmmyrman.wordpress.com/2015/12/29/the-sea-a-haiku/https://kmmyrman.wordpress.com/2015/12/29/the-sea-a-haiku/
From far accross the distances welcome to Muse Cruise with a lovely trio of most attractive haiku.
https://musecruse.wordpress.com/2015/12/29/distant-attraction/
And finally for this week, Pat from A Season and a Time has matched a delightful haiku with a wonderful picture of flowers. Do check it out!
http://aseasonandatime.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/tjs-household-haiku-challenge-attraction.html
lovely sentiments to begin the new year … and the dolls are absolutely delightful. I love how they appear to be looking at each other in your charming photos. Wishing the very best of everything to you and yours for 2016 and thank you for your most entertaining blog.
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Thanks so much! They are very charming in their simplicity. Hope your New Year is like everything you could wish!
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What a splendid haiku! Love these little matrioska like dolls 🙂 Happy New Year! Georgia.
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Here is my haiku for this week: https://bastetandsekhmet.wordpress.com/2016/01/02/anniversary-post-container-haiku-january-2-2015/
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A lovely haiku and a very charming photograph. Thanks so much for participating! TJ
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Thank you as usual for coming up with such delightful prompts. I admit I envy you those delightful little dolls! 🙂
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How kind! Naturally as a manly bronzed Aussie I do not usually collect dolls but I just couldn’t resist the cuteness! 🙂
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Thanks so much! They are charming little things. The simple painting just works. Happy new year to you too! TJ
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Thanks TJ 🙂
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I love those dolls! What a lovely surprise to find more hidden within, They are so bright and cheerful. a wonderful find indeed 🙂
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It was a very cool find. They all seem to have a little character of their own and all their heads wobble about. Intriguing. Best wishes! TJ
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Ha HA! How cute that they have wobbly heads, even more appealing! 🙂
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You have to hand it to the Japanese when it comes to cuteness they win every time.
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They do indeed 🙂
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What a great trio of different perspectives. The image is so intriguing too! I think I like 1 and 3 best. TJ 🙂
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A trio of haiku for you. Thanks TJ for hosting this week’s challenge. 😊
https://kmmyrman.wordpress.com/2016/01/02/containers-a-haiku-challenge/
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A wonderful start to the year. These are all great haiku. I am so taken with your image too! Best wishes. TJ
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beautiful and creative riff off of the notion of containers. moreover, a flawless flow from what is initially (for most) less than pleasant notion / season — autumn — to the more lively and embrace seasons of summer and spring. yet with the notion of ‘contain within’ as the bridge, turns the original not-so-pleasant into something to be embrace. As someone in my autumn years, I really do appreciate that. 🙂
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Thanks so much for your thoughts. Age gives us the chance to embrace our summers and springtimes but the exterior gets a little worse for wear. Sigh. I look at my grey hairs and want to shout “but I am still 20 inside!” Then I drink cocoa and fall asleep on the sofa.
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Lol
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Ah you crafty thing you! Lovely haiku and great story. I knitted a scarf once. My sister and I sat up all night with wool leftovers. I ended up with 2 metres of scarf of the most unwearable purple and green scratchiness. 🙂
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Your haiku reminds me a lot of an Albert Camus quotation: “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer”.
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Oh I have never heard of this quote before. I am not keen on Camus after having to read The Stranger in high school and sadly not “getting” it. This is a lovely quote.
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In high school, I read and promptly forgot “The Stranger”… 🙂 Glad you like the Camus’ quote.
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I think I should give the poor man another chance now that I am of more discerning years.
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Now there’s a phrase: “of more discerning years”–hah! Beats “of a certain age” all to heck!
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Anyway…I hear that 60 is the new 21 so I am still a teenager.
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Oh my goodness, a wild man–clear the roads!
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DJ TJ is in da house!
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You’re too much 🙂
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https://musecruse.wordpress.com/2016/01/03/haiku-higgledy-piggledy/
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Each one of these is intriguing and so wonderfully matched to your chosen images. The flowers sing and the pot with the bird I particularly love. The coffin is more sombre! Creativity overload! 🙂
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Thanks, I was hoping you’d like the bird pot–I’d love to have it in my home 🙂
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Objects like these really speak to you in their simplicity and charm. Hope your week has begun well. 🙂
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We had our first snow and the parking lot (car park?) looks like an ice rink–so the week is beginning with a chilly case of “nerves”…I’ll try to venture out tomorrow (walking, as I’m a non-driver) 🙂
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To those without snow it always seems sooo romantic but having seen what it can do when you are driving or getting about I am sure the reality is another thing altogether. I hope your feet remain firmly planted in your first foray into the winter wonderland. 🙂
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Yeah, I don’t think I’d ever use “romantic” and “snow” in the same sentence 🙂 Unless of course, Mr Wonderland suddenly arrives…
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Haha. He certainly sound more charming than Jack Frost.
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I dare say…
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Happy New Year, TJ 🙂
https://ladyleemanilasphotos.wordpress.com/2016/01/03/tjs-household-challenge-containers/
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A lovely image and haiku to describe your special containers! Thanks so much for participating.
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Here is my slightly tipsy offering:
http://elusivetrope.com/2016/01/03/19-crimes/
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Many thanks! I am intrigued to know more about the wine. It is not something I have seen on the shelves here in Perth.
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My offering for the challenge.
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https://recoveringknowitall.wordpress.com/2016/01/03/tjs-haiku-challenge-containers/
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I really like your haiku. I can really relate to that. The little dolls are so cute.
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Thanks so much. They are intriguing little objects from a simpler time.
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and part 2…
https://recoveringknowitall.wordpress.com/2016/01/03/tjs-challenge-part-2-worlds-of-words/
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