Still Photos Of Living Words: Revolutionary ConTEXTing Haiku

Why do we take still/
photographs of wise people/
who speak living words?

Loon Calls The Sunset Goodbye: Revolutionary ImproVerse Free Verse Poem

My video camera ran,/
dancing with the lake’s waves/
and the sky’s reflections.

My fingers froze,
trying to hold lens steady,
silently breathing.

I’ve learned to be quiet,
to live with the pain
of stillness.

It was all worth it
to hear a lone loon
call the sunset goodbye.

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My Memory, No Video, Remembers: Revolutionary IMprov Free Verse Poetry

He saw

a desert picture,

Mojave,

her costume,

her children,

the stage,

and remembered.
Somewhere,

in Ecotopia?

there is video

proof:

A costume’d man,

Teenage
Mutant
Ninja Turtle
(popular the first time around)

standing on a balcony

stage,

as soft light

through the patio window

breaks.

He’s surrounded by

young ballerinas,

Merry Misses,

missing the raindrops

and the mist,
laughing,

skipping,

she directing.

Were there tissues

and cloth

and streamers?

Moving,

Swirling,

Dancing

around him,
(old yet young,
giggling)

chanting:
“excellent.
Excellent!
EXCELLENT!”

It was her first
video choreograph.
It was finished,
parked,
and lost.

He never saw it,
that videoed memory,

most excellent,
but in his mind,
he can recall
those better,
more pure
days,
and dances.

Even without

the video,

taped,

and the paper mache’

green and purple,

long since crushed

and lost

turtle head.

Seeing hats of green,

he remembers.

She

has not strayed.
Her art

reminds him

to be

mutant

excellent.

 

 

Roundabout Decades Later: Revolutionary ConTEXTing Haiku With Video

From third row to the/
Roundabout back, three decades /
later, Yes still rocks.

Ancient Meets Modern: Revolutionary Blogging Haiku

River sturgeon have been around since the dinosaurs. In early May, I videoed them in the Wolf River near Shawno, Wisconsin.

Ancient meets modern
in a Wisconsin river.
I watch sturgeon spawn.

Dreidel Turnip Goy Toy at Seattle Art Museum: A SAM Revolutionary Haiku and Video

Dredyl top spinning.
Bent turnip or phallic root,
Twisting as Goys do

For more information on From Art Criticism to Poetry in Five Strokes, visit A.K. “Mimi” Allin’s blog at http://thepoetessatgreenlake.blogspot.com/2009/08/from-art-criticism-to-poetry-in-five.html