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Patti Freimuth
A Service Star
haiku
by
Patti Freimuth
About seven and a half years ago, I was stuck in the hospital for approximately three weeks awaiting the arrival of our first child. It was then that I was introduced to scrapbooking, mainly to keep my sanity. I feel in love with scrapbooking because you can display your pictures in a creative ways but more importantly you could reveal the details of the story that the picture didn’t tell itself.
When I started the Global Haiku Traditions class, I wasn’t really sure what a haiku was. Of course I had written a few in grade school but the emphasize was more on the language arts aspect of counting syllables. Enrolling in the Global Haiku class has taught me that there is so much more to haiku. Writing a haiku was very difficult at first because I wanted to use feeling words such as ‘lonely’ to describe how something made me feel instead of painting an image and letting the reader experience the feeling himself.
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My goal with my scrapbooking is to capture and preserve moments in time so that future generations will have a glimpse of what our lives were really like as well as who we were. Haiku fits naturally into my hobby because it offers me a unique way of journaling those memories. After all, a haiku is a poem that takes the reader back to that particular moment for them to experience it through all their senses. They say a picture is worth a thousand words but the few words of a well-written haiku can evoke the most amazing picture in your mind!
From the deaths of close family members and my husband’s deployment, I have learned how valuable relationships are. My daughters have taught me to appreciate the little things in life and the joy of living in the moment. It is from these people and the events in my life that have inspired my haiku. I have chosen the title ‘Details’ for two reasons. First of all each haiku I have written will eventually be placed in one of my scrapbooks adding details to the pictures. Secondly, when reading any haiku the reader must fill in some details from their memories to connect with the haiku. I hope that you slowly read through my collection and enjoy each of them. —Patti Freimuth
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empty
parking lot at Armory |
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Solo noisy playground nearby
a lonely violet clear blue
sky twirling
in the air sultry
evening outside
in the black sky Patti Freimuth & Deb Lehman |
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eight
months in Germany |
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smoke
billowing from debris This one really moved me—it captured the heart of the whole collection she wrote. Since I know what Patti and her family has gone through regarding Ethan serving our country, the comparison between Lady Liberty and her family is awesome! If I didn't know Patti, her girls or Ethan before reading the haiku I would feel as though I knew a piece of their family's life after reading it. Great job Patti! —Cindy Stuckey |
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dressing
in daddy’s camo |
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news
coverage on T.V. |
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at
the mailbox |
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all
pile in bed |
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at
the zoo |
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summer
afternoon |
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my
two daughters |
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yellow
ribbon |
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on
the front door |
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traveling
overseas |
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E-mail
from Germany Response: for
an instant Deb Lehman It was October many years ago when my mom died. Days after her funeral I was going thru her things, I remember sliding her jacket on pulling it close to me and breathing deep.. her scent still lingered and for a brief moment she was there with her arms around me. Thank you for this memory Patti. —Deb Lehman |
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outside
the kid’s window |
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on
a shelf |
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