All posts by Stella Pierides

Stella Pierides, British poet, writer and artist of Greek descent. Books include: Of This World (2017) and In the Garden of Absence (2012), both Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award winners, and Feeding the Doves (2013). Stella served on The Haiku Foundation Board of Directors. She concieved and co ordinated the feature Haiku for Parkinson's for The Haiku Foundation.

“Feeding the Doves” and “The Haircut”

I am very pleased to report that two of my haibun set in Athens, Greece, have been published by Contemporary Haibun Online: Feeding the Doves, a story inspired by a photograph on Robert Geiss’ wonderful blog “daily Athens photo”; and “The Haircut”, exploring the hardships Greek people are facing in the current economic crisis.

The actual photograph of the man feeding the doves that inspired this story can be seen hereIn fact, visiting the site to look for the link, I realise that a version I’d sent Robert thanking him for the photograph, had been posted on his blog! So, let us keep feeding the doves!

 

Paint the Town Red – 100 Days of Summer

Red Boat
Red Boat

I am taking part in the Project 100 Days of Summer 2012. In the words of the organizers:

“100 Days of Summer provides its members with the opportunity to share their creative work within the intense framework of providing one artistic submission per day for 100 days. Officially, we are beginning on July 5th and expect the program to run through October 15th or so.”

Steve Veilleux provides the prompts using “cards from a game called ‘The Origin of Expressions’. ” He encourages us to use the information in any way we like, “borrow ideas from other postings, or create literal or abstract interpretation of the expression”.

Expression #1 follows (week of July 1-7):
Paint the town red
Meaning: Spend a wild night out
and
Expression #2 (week of Jul 1-7)
“out like a light”
Meaning: Fast asleep

So, here we go! We Paint the Town Red! I will be posting mainly haiku/senryu and micropoems with the occasional photo haiku and photographs.

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‘Things with Wings and Other Poems’ 26 June 2012

Things with Wings & Other Poems” is now up as a PDF on Yay Words.

“Things…”  is a collection of doodleku  derived from a month-long challenge, initiated by Aubrie Cox on her blog Yay Words!

Throughout March 2012, poets were invited to participate in a challenge called “I Doodle, You ’Ku.” A doodle was posted each day and poets wrote poems in response to it.

I didn’t catch on until mid-month, but then what fun it was! Aubrie had the difficult task of choosing one/more haiku per day to go with her doodle. I don’t know how she did it, but the resulting collection is amazing! Truly splendid! Visit and see!