It was 4 years ago – in 2014 – that I was able to create a-blog-post-a-day during April for NaPoWriMo – the National Poetry Writing Month;
I posted 30 days’ worth of 17 syllable haikus (with accompanying photographs) in OTTP Haiku City.
In the 28 months when I didn’t manage to publish any posts on this OTTP blog: Person is Not a Rude Word, I did (happily) manage to get my painful hands to assemble 2 photo books – one each July – in time to give as a gift to my mother for her August birthday.
These photo books can be viewed online from the links below.
I’m plotting to lazily borrow 3 seventeen-syllable mini proems from ‘Haiku City’ to introduce them…
Or, I could proverbially preamble that Spring has finally sprung, folk are sitting out in cafes, building owners have more scaffolding put in place, tourists are arriving and window shopping...
Nah! I’ll stick with the haikus.
cafe, shop & poles – Hove
So to introduce the macro and the micro of out-and-about luxury snacking, plus poles, planks and clamps
here are
Haiku No. 6
spiced, glazed, hot cross buns
blur distinctions ‘twixt bakers
and sacred prasad
and
Haiku No. 24
scaffolding festish:
heavy metal therapy
for Aspie persons
And to introduce the pictorial tribute to my self-confessed secondhand / cut-price shopaholism
here is
Haiku No. 12
purchasing power:
sifting through charity shops’
bargains for the soul
Halloween shopfront, Brighton
who & what I am is all in the pages and posts...