HAIKU DIALOGUE – paper dress

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1. Thank you for including my haiku in the paper couture collection!

2. Thank you very much, Vicki Miko, for your kind words about my haiku. 😌

   Your haiku is so subtle yet powerful!
   And using the word “vernal” just sets it off. Beautiful!

   my vernal age
   twiggy pop art
   recycled

   Vicki Miko

3. Thank you for including my haiku. Great community of talented writers.

4. Yep, that’s exactly where I was going. My sister had one if them and never wore it. Several years ago on Antiques Road show(PBS), someone had a never worn dress like it. Worth thousands. Thanks for mentioning my haiku.

   1. Wow, should have saved those twiggy paper dresses 🙂

5. on the internet, i just caught a quick glimpse of Diane Keaton, (actress), as a paper doll…with those\ slanty/ tabs coming out from the top of her shoulders. She is wearing black and white clothes. Did anyone here see it too?

6. Thank you kjmunro!

   the phantom
   hovering under the stage lights
   a vintage gown
   Janice Munro
   Canada
   Janice Munro’s poem is my favorite! “the phantom” . . . that headless, bodyless “vintage gown” “hovering”.
   —
   paper couture –
   she wears my love letter
   close to her heart
   arvinder kaur
   Chandigarh, India
   arvinder kaur’s poem is a beautiful version of the image. It’s very musical!
   —
   belladonna
   her champagne dress
   in small sips
   Isabel Caves
   Auckland, New Zealand
   Mysterious . . . maybe Isabel Caves’ poem prompts Shakespeare’s tale of Romeo and Juliet.
   —
   paper dress
   she hears the rustle of leaves
   with every step
   Minal Sarosh
   Minal Sarosh’s poem is wonderfully simple, “she hears the rustle of leaves”. Seems to send a poignant awareness, I love that.
   —
   campbell’s soup
   the dress she never
   wore
   Nancy Brady
   Huron, Ohio
   Not certain, but for me, Nancy Brady’s poem seems likened to my memories of the paper dress fad. I had a couple paper dresses in the Twiggy era.
   —
   dressing her paper doll
   in dreams
   of silk
   Peggy Hale Bilbro
   Alabama, USA
   Peggy Hale Bilbro’s poem is like a wistful little girl’s picture book!
   —
   couture
   paper sari in multi folds
   hiding
   Radhamani sarma
   Radhamani’s last word is perfect! The “multi folds / hiding” maybe more than just any perceived body flaws.
   —
   first light –
   sun spun gold dress awaits
   a chariot
   robyn brooks
   usa
   robyn brooks’ poem is music out loud!

   1. Thank you for your comment on my poem Vicki, and thanks kj for including me in your paper couture collection! I loved all the different responses to this simple prompt.
      Peggy

   2. Thank you, Vicki. I find headless, limbless mannequins quite spooky.

   3. Yep, that’s exactly where I was going. My sister had one if them and never wore it. Several years ago on Antiques Road show(PBS), someone had a never worn dress like it. Worth thousands. Thanks for mentioning my haiku.

7. Very happy to have my haiku included here. Thank you, Kathy !! Congrats to all poets !

   Minal Sarosh

8. There are so many interesting stories in our collection of few words this week. One that I appreciated the use of lyrical words is:
   .
   hands off
   the origami dress
   a fragile dream
   .
   Jo El
   .
   For the readers that don’t follow the television show Project Runway, my nod to the show was inspired by the partially hidden Zac Posen storefront sign. He was a designer judge on the show.

   1. Thank you!

9. I am very glad that my poem was included in the selection. Thank you, KJ

   Anitha Varma.

10. Thank you Ingrid, Helen and Kathy.
    My mother made a paper dress for me when I was three years old.
    It was for an on-stage tap dance. When played with later, outside, in the rain, we soon discovered how rapidly the dye in crêpe paper runs and my fingers were covered in red.

    1. Ah! Red crêpe paper chains at Christmas and how my sister and I got told off colouring our lips on the quiet!

11. Thank you KJ for including mine. I particularly admired John Hawkhead’s clever ‘dressing room / she smooths the creases / in her frown’, and the poignant image in Hifsa Ashraf’s haiku of the girl dressing her doll in a dress made of paper.

    1. Thanks Mark – always great to see constructive appreciation.
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       I’m really enjoying this set of challenges kj – it seems to trigger new thinking for me.
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       I really like this from Isabel Caves:
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       belladonna
       her champagne dress
       in small sips

12. Thank you Kathy for including mine. Such a varied compilation.
    Congratulations to all poets.
    This one took me back to my daughters ever lengthening schooldays
    .
    past bedtime…
    cutting a gown
    for her paper doll
    Theresa A. Cancro
    Wilmington, Delaware, USA
    .

    1. Thank you, Robert, for picking out my haiku. I’m pleased that it brought back memories for you.

       Best,
       Theresa

13. Congrats to all haikus

14. Kj,
    Thankyou very much for selecting my contribution to this week’s theme.
    After months of writer’s blue’s (a veritable watesland) you have reignited my desire to write, seeing the every day around me. I hope all poets take the time to take deep breath…and compose…
    Thanks Tim Heaney

    1. tossed aside
       brown paper bags
       dream of Cinderella
       .
       Tim Heaney
       Johns Creek, Ga.
       .
       .
       Wonderfully powerful.

15. thanks Kathy for including mine – the hungry woman – I am enjoying your prompts very much – a lovely opportunity to practise haiku in a gentle talented community <3

16. Dear Kathy,
    Greetings. Profusely thanking you for including mine among the featured ones. Delighted to go through all the
    haiku around on the couture ; how many designs and fritters ;
    My favorite this week given below;
    how wonderfully between the whispers and cacophony!

    paper whispers
    a wordless cacophony
    in the background

    Mark Gilbert

    1. Thank you Radhamani Sarma – these dresses and saris must be so noisy to wear!

       1. Dear Mark Gilbert,
          – yes, the frittering sounds -!
          catchy.

17. thanks to all who have commented so far… how we move from an actual paper dress to paper dolls & fairy tales, to the hospital… a wonderful commentary on fashion & the environment… a truly remarkable group of writers!
    thank you, kj

    1. Thanks to you for providing us with the visual prompt! It seems to have struck a chord with many of us.

    2. Thank you kj munro for including my haiku in this amazingly creative collection. Congratulations to all of the poets! Well done!

18. Thank you Kathy for including my haiku in this Pulp Fashion collection.

19. Great collection of haiku. Congratulations to all the poets. Loved Ingrid’s Betsy McCall, reminding me of my sister and me fighting over the magazine and hoping for an ad on the obverse page. Without an ad, we had to wait until Mom okayed it. It was her magazine after all.

    Serious, poignant, and more. Clysta’s reference to simplicity patterns another childhood memory. Paper mache from the rain…classic!

    Thanks Kathy for including mine along with the others.

    1. Thank you, Nancy! Glad mine brought back some good memories. Innocent times.

20. coloring
    outside the curves
    paper dress
    .
    Marilyn Ashbaugh
    .
    Very good. Short and full of content. Taking an idiom, mixing it up, and the reveal makes sense of it all.

    1. Simonj,

       Thank you so much for your comments on my ku!

       Kathy,

       Thank you for the fun prompt! And the great selection. Kudos to all poets!

       Marilyn

21. Kathy, Thank you for including my haiku. It is such a broad selection. I enjoyed them all. Two that especially stayed with me were Greer’s about gift categories for anniversaries (I envisioned two handmade paper ornaments atop a cake) and Hifsa’s evocative image of a child and her doll:

    brown paper gown
    origami boutonnière
    first anniversary party

    Greer Woodward
    Kamuela, HI

    evening chill…
    a refugee girl’s doll
    in the paper gown

    Hifsa Ashraf
    Pakistan

22. I like Marilyn Ashbaugh’ “coloring” for its clever slyness, Isabel Caves’s “belladonna” for its rhythm and implied deadliness (femme fatale?), and Sanela Pliško’s “trick or treat” for its sobering use of double entendre. Well done everyone!

23. There are some wonderful haiku in this week’s series. These are my favorites:
    .
    .
    yellow moon
    the cat woman in me
    scents adventure

    Anitha Varma
    .
    .
    evening chill…
    a refugee girl’s doll
    in the paper gown

    Hifsa Ashraf, Pakistan
    .
    .
    hands off
    the origami dress
    a fragile dream

    Jo El, North Carolina, USA
    .
    .
    paper dress
    at the bridal shower
    discussing her poor choice

    Kristen Lindquist
    .
    .
    paper couture
    a little boy stares at pencil
    in his hand

    Neni Rusliana, Indonesia
    (Might need an article between at and pencil though)
    .
    .
    from doll clothes
    to paper couture
    the child in us all

    (dedicated to Joan Son)
    Ronald K. Craig, Batavia, OH USA
    .
    .
    past bedtime…
    cutting a gown
    for her paper doll

    Theresa A. Cancro
    Wilmington, Delaware, USA
    .
    .
    Congrats to all poets!

    1. Thank you, Michael.
       Ron

    2. Thank you so much for the appreciation…so glad you liked my contribution.
       Anitha Varma.

    3. Thank you, Michael! I’m very touched by your note.
       –Theresa

24. paper couture –
    she wears my love letter
    close to her heart

    arvinder kaur
    Chandigarh, India

    this certainly made me melt!

    All the many posts that spoke of paperdoll clothing…i can totally relate….as a three year-old, and older, when there was a rainy day, or i was sick home in bed….i liked nothing better than to have my dog on one side and my scissors in hand cutting out paperdoll dresses with the slanty tabs.

    1. Thanks Wendy for your kind comments. Very heartening. Warm regards, Arvinder

25. What a riot of fun this week, and who doesn’t laugh at the impractical silliness of stuff on the catwalk? Among the many to giggle at:
    .
    Ann Rawson’s take on a disastrous evening out in Scottish weather:
    .
    after
    spring rain
    papier mâché
    .
    Barbara Tate’s poke at environmental concern:
    .
    haute couture
    recycled grocery bags
    do not touch
    .
    and even more poignantly, Helen Buckingham’s play on The Sound of Music:
    .
    pure paper prom dresses [no plastic bling] these are a few of ill-affordable things
    .
    Lots more to talk about and to enjoy. Thank you Kathy for including my rather more sober take on a fascinating photo.

    1. …..and simply laugh out loud:
       .
       my party dress
       the vibrato in mamma’s voice
       as she sews

       Marisa Fazio
       .
       potential problem
       how to make stockings
       stay up

       Paul Geiger
       .
       misstep
       paper gown becomes
       a cocktail dress

       Rehn Kovacic
       .
       prom night –
       environmentalist’s
       stiff dancing

       Tomislav Sjekloća
       .
       haute couture
       it’s just a matter of how long
       I can hold my breath

       Vandana Parashar
       .

       There are, of course, some serious takes, among them my fellow Ohrid resident I’ve still to meet:
       .
       chemotherapy
       she wants
       a new dress

       Pere Risteski
       .
       Thank you everyone for this entertaining, thought-provoking output. So looking forward to comments this week, as usual.

       1. Thank you, Ingrid for your kind appreciation and a big thanks to Kathy for including mine among a such lovely collection.
          Thoroughly enjoyed the poems!

       2. Thanks Ingrid. Thanks Kathy. Great light and shade in this collection.

       3. Thank you, Ingrid, for enjoying my poem.

    2. Thanks so much, Ingrid – and to Kathy, of course, for selecting my ku. Anne Rawson’s brought the biggest smile to my face – says it all!

    3. Thank you Ingrid. This was so much fun.

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