here is the haiku i wrote for him
In the sunny garden
she holds his hand now cold
for the last time
Sunday, August 29, 2010
EVERETT LEESON
My Mother lost her best friend and companion. He will be missed. He was 89 and turning 90 on NoveMBERO 23. He took a drink and stopped, closed his eyes and died. He died at Happy Hour and he would have been glad to go that way!
Friday, June 25, 2010
back again a from bipolar episode
WELL IT HAS BEEN 2 YEARS SINCE I HAVE WRITTEN!!!!
i HAVE BEEN ILL WITH DEPRESSION AND COLON CANCER!
i AM JUST FINE NOW.
Thanks be to God
Every bipolar episode has it's prize. It is a time on inertia during the depressive period. This (normal) period is one of discovery in all aspects of my life. I may switch to a newer medication that works better than i have been on these past few weeks. I will try Lithium, which is the only one so far dedicated to the illness and has worked well for years.
I never thought cancer was something that i would have to attend with.
A million kisses of haiku to all the people, medical and lay who have helped me!
CANCER HAIKU
In the cemetary
around the headstone
first snow drops
Scent of see weed
drifts into the graveyard
he walks alone
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
HAPPRY RAT SPRING 2008
Welcome to Spring, well officially anyway. It is Spring to me when the first Snowdrops appear in early January. Now there are all of the Spring bubls out.
My dragon boat team has been going out on Wednesday nights and how nice it has been on clear nights to look up and see the stars and look back at the lights of the island. We may be able to see our breath, but we are ever warm from the energy we extert out there.
My family celebrates Easter this week-end. An North European custom is that one gets a new suit of clothes to wear...well i like that one very much and a new Easter Sunday new hat to wear to church too. I am still not near my fat-loss ideal weight yet, so i don't want to buy more than one outfit anyway. My fellow friends with Diabetes have the same problem with weight gain. Oma says the only way to deal with this is to get a zipper for one's mouth....LOL My latest readings suggest more fiber, more fiber. Ian says that i need to climb stairs a couple of times a day. I do try, but the medications that i take add bulk to my small frame too. And i adore my food and wine so much!!!!!!!! Ray suggests that i drink more coffee to increase my slow metabolism !!! That might be the best idea so far...painless and so enjoyable, especially when he makes me a cup with his new Italian coffee maker and serves it from his new/antique French hand-painted cups.
The International Wine Festival in Vancouver was a treat for me. I mainly tasted Sparkling wines and a few highly rated Italian reds. I met the two leading Marchesi wine growers and enjoyed my chats with them, with a promise that i would visit thier wineyards soon.
Mischi and Bling are sheading more hair now and i brush and comb them a couple of times a day. They enjoy sitting out in the sun now.
I was asked to enter 3 haiku in an Italian contest, but i could not find a friend to translate them into italian properly using 5-7-5 on time.
Here they are:
A blue snow and sky
the morning rays of sun caught
in an icy web
I did the above after seeing Ottmar Libert's blog where he had posted one of his photos of an icy Santa Fe morning.
A grey sea and sky
blue irises turn violet
in the deep night
Above the cedars
a Mother eagle hovers
scent of herring
A few others:
A full face tonight
the female patient prays
her womb still empty
Winter day
an inch of new growth
in the snow
The dragon boaters
watch the eagles mate
Spring sunshine
On the dead tree
8 eagle sit and wait
a smell of herring
Many fishing boats are now in the harbour and the odour of fresh herring pervades the bay.
Greetings from my island home
Happy Spring to you
Angelika
Thursday, February 7, 2008
YEAR OF THE RAT
Today is the start of The Rat year, 4706.
I was born in a Rat Year.
I have most of the good and not so good aspects. Some good ones are: charming, passionate, practical, hardworking, intelligent, quick witted, well yes i liek tot hink i have these. Not so good are: greedy, miserly, secretive. But it says i will give all to those i love, yes that is true. Especially Monkey or Dragon peple with blue irises, and of course Rat persons with dark eyes like mine!!
Oma will call soon and tell me the never-ending story of my birth. The Baltic was pounding at the house, there were no lights, no power. I was born in candle light. At day break my Mother saw me for the first time. A wild Viking scream filled the room. What is that, take IT away, she yelled. Well, i was covered in balck hair, had black darting eyes. Yes, i looked like a rat. Every morning the midwife would find a rat curled up with me in my cradle. They could not keep it away, well they brough in a huge cat and that was the end of the poor, wee rat. All of this is the truth!!!
My family will go out for a Chinese meal today. i am the only single person, so i will get more of the "Lucky Money" red envelopes. Greedy old me!!!!
It is traditional in China to buy new shoes and clothes, and get a haircut. I will do all that today. Chinese Wu clan colours are red and black, as are the First Nations clans here on the island. My artist friend Sandra designs wonderful First Nations capes in those colours. There is a Red night at the art gallery. I have given them Sandra, HER art and MY haiku cards to display.
Perhaps someone will buy some....greedy again!!!
Some haiku and tanka
Free form, not 5-7-5 or 5-7-5-7-7...just too lazy this morning.
Wild Baltic night
the baby covered in hair
a woman's screamm
A Rat-woman
searching for a Dragon-man
must have blue irises
Chinese New Year
red packets of money
on her door-step
she rushes to the mall
and calls her hairdresser
Her beloved cats
born in the
Dragon, Monkey and Rat years
Have a wonderful Rat year.
Mozart and Shakespear were Rat persons, no wonder i love them so much!!!
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
CARNIVAL TIME
It is Carnival time and today is the last day. Shrove Tuesday is always fun...all those big, fat pancakes with maple syrup here in Canada. Here on the island not much is realy going on. I will make pancakes for myself, Mischi and Bling. I have a mask i made last year.
I heard that a man in Rio fell under a foat and died. All that crowing adn drinking, well the poor man had fun until the last moment of his life. My prayers go out to his family and friends. "Moderation in all things" is not in affect during Carnival.
My Nordic Uncle went to Carnival in Southern Germany, when he was young and did not return until the Summer.
Shrove Tuesday
pancake after pancake
scent of maple syrup
Carnival floats
song, dance and beads
rainbow on her neck
Behind her mask
her brown eyes blue
Carnival magic
Grey sea and sky
rain on the cedars
on the intenet
Carnival in Rio
colour, music and Samba
Thursday, January 3, 2008
HAPPY NEW YEAR OF THE RAT 2008
I am keeping the 12 days of Christmas, so my decorations will stay up until January 6. My NOBO haiku group has exchanged the Japanese traditional greeting card (Nengaijyou). about 60 of us have done this. There is wonderful creativity in these cards. Some are hand-made and all have a New Year haiku on them together with the Japanese New Year greeting (*Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu*) It is great fun to receive these cards each morning. We are an international group of haiku poets and the stamps alone are wondeful. I have been a member of NOBO ( Shiki) since 2000 and have made some dear friends during these past 7 years. The old Shiki and the current NOBO haiku are kept on-line, so it is nice to see them for the last 7 years. The on-line data base is housed in Japan. Do have a look. This is the YEAR of the Rat. I was born in a Rat year, so this year will be special for me!!!! I wish you all a wonderful year, especially my Rat friends!!!! My New Year haiku I sent this one to all NOBO memebers: Midnight bells Rat chases Pig into the night I woke up to the sound of power saws yesterday. The city workers were sawing down two wonderful, old Weeping Wilow trees. I was very destressed. These were wonderful tress with a bench under one of them that i sit on and look out over the sea very often. I will call the city to see why this was done as soon as thier office opens today. Chinese New Year starts on February 7. I always take my family for a Chinese buffet on that day. Weeping willow trees only stumps remain sound of saws The Wheeping willow she sits under it as her tears fall Danish Christmas dinner -- the smell of red cabbage and a fat goose rice pudding with cherry sauce fat marzipan pig prize At 12:01 he sits in last year's bath water
Monday, December 24, 2007
HAPPY CHRISTMAS SEASON
I wish you all a wonderful holiday season.
My family celebrates a Danish Christmas with goose and red cabbage. Dessert is a rice pudding with an almond in it. Whoever gets the almond wins the marzipan pig.
It is Bling's first Christmas, so he is having fun crawling into the boxes and trying to climb up the two Christmas trees in the house. Mischi, being more used to all the glitter and fun is quite calm.
WE had a bit of snow, but it did not stay. Too warm in this rainforest.
In the snow
foot prints melt
in the sun
Snow on cedars
in the rainforest
it slowly washes away
A new nutcraker
i wait at midnight
where is the prince
In the harbour
boats with Christmas lights
sail slowly by
Christmas buffet
too many choices
sound of groaning
In the church
His light bright tonight
Christmas time
Saturday, November 3, 2007
HAPPY NOVEMBER
Ah, November is here...it has always been my favourite month along with December, for selfish reasons. My birthday and that of my soul-mates who are also fellow Sags.
A few are scattered around the world. My wish is to have a huge party one year and invite them all to Hawai'i with me so we can all celebrate our birthdays together there. Christmas officially begins in Honolulu right after Thanks giving with the Santa parade. The large hotels do a wonderful job in decorating. Yes, it is a wonderful time!!
My friend Ian MacDougall has shot a few very nice photos on Vancouver Island for you to see here.
Winter begins on December 22, so there are still many weeks of Autumn left to enjoy this colourful season.
Some tanka and haiku for Autumn:
Trees from Italy
yellow leaves falling
near the cedars
In the midst
of yellow and red leaves
a palm tree
The black kitten
chases a grey squirrel
in the misty garden
Purple leaves
of a tree in a field
i know not what kind
Autumn cranberries
beyond ripe for picking
bird's food supply
for the coming Winter
full of vitamin C
A county lane
fencing the horses in
Autumn sunshine
On the lonely path
red and gold leaves
she walks on them
crunching in delight
with a giggle too
In the distance
mountains now touched with
the first snows of Winter
nature has left her
first mark behind
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
NEW MAN IN MY LIFE
He has black hair and large emerald eyes. He is taking up all my free time. He will not leave my pc alone. He sleeps on my pillow, not his own. He sleep most of the day and eats for the rest. HIs hair is so very soft and long and i wonder if he will loose it like so many men. We do not speak the same language so it is a bit hard to communicate fully. He has very high cheak bones and his eyes have a Mongolian slant to the. Perhaps he is part Hungarian like me? The two males next door speak the same language, so he goes over to Raymond's house a few times a day.
Mischi hisses at him and swats him when he passes by her. He likes to share my coffee too much. He is already hyper, so i try and keep him from doing that. He is very noisy and has looked in all my closets. He has a fondness for shoes, especially designer ones. So, he is a bit vain or perhaps just has a taste for the finer things in life. To celebrate his moving into my house i served my usual celebration bottle or two of Veuve Clicquot and smoked salmon sandwiches, well he did not like the bubbly, but eat most of the salmon. He enjoys my many silk kimona very much, perhaps he is part oriental in orientation. He also has insommnia as i do, but he will not take any sleeping mediction. It is early days yet, i do hope he will fit in with the rest of my household soon. His name is Jet. I love him very much indeed!
HIs black hair shines
in the Autumn misty day
sounds of hissing
On my silk kimona
many long black hairs
rustle of old silk
We share a glass
of the old bubbly wine
in Irish glasses
Mischi, the old female
her blue-green eyes flash
at his large emerald ones
My blue silk pillow
a new shiny black head now
little room for mine
In the long dark night
a new heart beat next to mine
i go to sleep with a smile
Sunday, September 23, 2007
TODAY IS AUTUMN (AKI)
I woke up very early this morning for some reason. I have actually slept 7 hours a night for the last couple of months, not today. I then realised it is the first day of Autumn.
Autumn always gives me a restless feeling, perhaps itis my Maygyar DNA. An urge to go off to Winter hunting grounds?
For weeks now it look as if someone has used a paint brush on the trees and bushes during the night. The old oak trees have rusty leaves and the acorns are on the ground.
I found an interesting and useful piece of rock art. Rocks have spaces where you put tea lights inside them. They warm the rocks...a wonderful spot to put cold bare feet.
I have never been to Eastern Canada or the USA for Autumn and one day i really must go and see all those red Maple trees. We do not have mnay of them here.
Autumn haiku and tanka
Rusting oak trees
guarding the harbour entrace
spaces to see through now
the ships pass behind them
to Alaska and Vancouver
Red and yellow leaves
float on the blue ocean
where do they journey to
if i were an insect small
could i catch a ride
On this pacific island
reds and yellow leaves
foat here and settle there
i feel ready to travel
with them right now
A weeping willow
still full of green leaves
the old man's memories
The old man
lights a Churchill
to keep wasps away
Half the boats
in the harbour now gone
more space for my dragonboat
to reach the other island
In Mother's garden
sound of many crickets
singing old songs
In the kitchen
a cricket in a cage
keeping Aki time
Sunday, September 16, 2007
FROHES GEBURSTAG MELITTA UND MAYA
Two very special birthdays to the Ladies that are so very import to me!!
Normally Sagittarian and Virgo do not really get along.
Well, not true at all.
Both have milestone birthdays today. Both share ancient roots to the Baltic sea.
One the oldest woman in my life, the other the youngest.
For Mutti Melitta:
She starts her day
with the coffee with her name
Melitta in her cup
Wihout her on earth
i would not be here at all
September's red leaves
On the Baltic
in an ancient place
gold sand dunes
Blond Viking hair
the Baltic winds blow
the sea scents
Young green eyes
do not recognize the
older face
Across the sea
in an old graveyard
ancestor spirits
still alive and with us today
tall blue irises
FOR MAYA
Her voice
my wake-up call
each moring
In old Hamburg
from her open window
mist from the river
In her closet today
another pair of designer shoes
from her Prince
Bottle of champagne
another taste of
the old widow Clicquot
to start a birthday morning
in my Irish glass
Saturday, September 8, 2007
RENGAY BY ANGELIKA BYGOTT AND JOHN DALEIDEN
Sea-Changes
By Angelika Bygott and John Daleiden
squatting
a frog observes
the clouds /chiyo-ni
near the lily pads
dragon flies hover /Angelika
the waves break
on Malibu Beach
sandpipers skitter /John
late August day
a leaf in the ocean
Canada Goose honks /Angelika
hurricane remnants
one hundred year floods /John
the lunar eclipse
her full face has a twin
in the still ocean /Angelika
Friday, August 17, 2007
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEFFREY RANDOLPH RENVILLE
Happy Birthday my one and only child.
Against all odds we both survived one of those "Hungarian dramas" that this family is so fond of.
On the radio right now they are playing a csardas...
From The Phophet by Kahil Gibran
And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of Children."
And he said:
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you.
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.
My tanka
He sits on the large hill
King of his great pride
His kingdom down below
The responsibilities are vast
A roar awkens the day
Written this morning August 17, 2007
Happy Birthday!!!!!
Monday, August 6, 2007
MID-SUMMER
My computer crashed and have lost most of my data. Did back my data as i should have...NO!!!
Well, as everything in my life i only learn things the hard way. I am especially sorry that my Cousin Kim lost his collection of 30,000 songs that he has been collecting for so long.
I now have an external hard-drive and this should help with anymore losses.
I am grateful to Ray and Roger for letting me use their computers...so sorry for waking the two of you so early in the mornings. You have been good sports. I will have one of my bubbly parties soon to celebrate.
Here in Nanaimo we had the annual Dragon boat festival in which i was part of. Then there was the Bathtub Races which brings so many tourists to the city. More and more i hear many European and Asian languages spoken here and am happy that these tourists are enjoying this city and the island.
Here are a few haiku and tanka:
For the breast cancer survior dragon boat teams
My paddle goes slowly
among the flowers in the sea
so many lives gone
but we honour
them today
Salt on arms and legs
spash the dragon boaters
as a seal watches
For Sam Monagham Stone for his historic sea voyage from Honolulu to Japan on the Kama Hele, a 125 day life changing adventure. I am so proud of you See you on my birthday in Honolulu!!!
You can read about his adventure on http://pvshawaii.squarespace.com/ and on his regular column for JAL at http://www.jal.co.jp/hawaii/samlog, also his TV show website http://entame.express.jp/tvinfo/aloten3/index.php
On the still sea
his eyes look inward
creating stories
Summer morning
watching the sun rise
haze on the sea
Blue-green eyes
memories brings me back
to your island
Sunday, July 1, 2007
HAPPY CANADA DAY 2007
Happy Canada Day The city will be full of actvities today. One nice thing is the annual classic car show . Family actvities in the park. I like that the downtown highrises all put large flags on thier balconies. The 360 Van Isle sailboat race is now finished. i watched the sailboats come in yesterday morning. I met many of the sailors...they were all having coffee down on the quay. Canada is 140 years old today!!!! At dawn sailboats enter the habour sailors ready for coffee Canada Day she is 140 years old young at heart and spirit people of many lands room for them all Last day of June she waits for the Honey Moon her beautiful face My little sister her birthday yesterday like the daughter i could never have Frohes Geburstag |
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
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