What's new in Hiram Unleashed

Recent New Stuff in The Blogs:

In Helikon Haven:

 The Angel Chair

The Mechanism, Smarting , Tragicomic Dionysis
The Wheel (A response to Love Child's Poem)


In Poetry:
Speak to Me of Friednship, and The Pick-a-Path Poem (Modified from a poem by Roann)

In Rants:
The comic results of recent appeals in Yahoo.

From my Yahoo Answers "My Activities" Page:

About me

PROOF ANSWERS IS A SCAM!!!!
1. "God Bless You" was reported and removed.
Blessing the reader CANNOT BE against Yahoo guidelines. Next you will say saying hello is chatting. What utter rubbish! Do you realize how foolish this makes your "guidelines" look!
2. Offering the numbers for psychiatric services to disturbed persons is against guidelines: http://hiramunleashed.blogspot.com/2014/…
From YA: Your Appeal has been declined.
3. "What is the purpose of poetry?" is against Yahoo Guidelines!
In Other Words, TROLLS RULE THIS SITE: http://hiramsrants.blogspot.com/2013/12/…
From YA: No response to the appeal 100 days later.

Q: Are God and religion evil?
A: "No, the most evil thing God ever invented was the OPINION."  -Happy Hiram

In Raves:
Letter to Thomas, and...  

Teacups of North America

Holiday Pics and Posts

I hope everyone has a blessed and joyous holiday season this year. Some new stuff:

 Past Memories:

A New/Old post to Rhymes

Gifts for my internet friends:

Videos Samples from Raves

This month in pictures:

 New York City - viewed over the snow!

The crystalline branches in the sun.

 The Delta Sorority throws a Holiday Party for the shelter where I work.

Some of the Thank You cards made to thank them.

The punch table at the Staff Holiday Party

The Christmas lights on my front porch

My Christmas Tree

My Chimney and stockings (hung with care)

Christmas Village Part 1: The Country

Christmas Village Part 2: The City

Christmas Village Part 3: The Haunted Carnival

 My Three Mini-Christmas Trees

Sunset in New Jersey

New Posts in Helikon:

Rayven's Holiday Message 

Yard Stick 

  The Art of Life 

(a collaboration between Pandora, Hiram and BG)

  

   Edgar's Secret 

 The Humble Man 

This past week in all things Hiram:

Helikon Haven has had HIV information Week, with posts from the HIV Awareness Sonnet Contest{ Day 6, Day 5,  Day 4, Day 3, Day 2, Day 1 }



You say Benwa-ing and I said Benoi-ing; Benwa, Benoi, Benoi, lets call the whole thing off!  

and...

Peter (as the account Polish) showing off his anti-women stance (Three of the top five viewed posts in my rants section are about Peter. That and my rants section has twice the views of my other sections mean, more about Pete to come. Benwa, Benwa. Who knows? Learning about how to avoid being victimized by him online MIGHT become a cottage industry!)

Photos: Nature at its most mysterious

Two Poems this week:  Golden and Motor-Psyche

This week at Hiram Unleashed

Hiram 12 Secrets

New At Helikon Haven Poetry

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A co-worker of mine has just gotten a new job and will be leaving us after three years of fun and learning.

Best of Luck Theresa!

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My Flower and Herb Garden

a Month ago:

 Now:

Close-Up of the flower wheelbarrow:

The Littlest Rose Bush:

 My Goldfish, Federline:

Hope you like!

Hiram's "Handy" Sonnet Guide

Here is how you do it. Find seven sets of rhymes based on your hands.

Two rhymes for pinks (or fingertips)

Thinks/Winks, Drinks/Stinks, Ships/Trips Flips/Dips

Two rhymes for rings (or ring-finger)

Sings/Swings Wings/Brings Linger/Anger Kings/Things

Two rhymes for middle (or center)

Little/Fiddle Mentor/Centaur Letter/Better Whittle/Riddle

Two rhymes for pointer (or index)

Banter/Ranter Next/Text Hexed/Vexed 

Two rhymes for Thumbs

Numb/Dumb Some/Come Hum/Strum From/Sum

Since we are sitting down, two rhymes for knee (or knees)

We/See Be/Flee Trees/Breeze Sneeze/Wheeze

Lastly two rhymes for eye (or eyes)

Why/Lie Try/Die Surprise/Wise  Eyes/Thighs

Okay now we start each line with the words "Iamb" (EYE-amb) except we say something different that has two beats like Iamb, first hard and then soft.

We count this word on our pinky finger and each following two beats on the rest  of our fingers going "tip-gully-tip-gully" like so:

    EYE -    amb       EYE -    amb    EYE -    amb    EYE -    amb     EYE     SHIPS

or for example

          I      roam      the     docks   and     seek     you     on    the        SHIPS

 

and then:

       A -      mid       salt-      y      mists    your     fra-    grance    LING-   ERS

 

 If you have trouble fitting in the beats, often adding  "just" or "some" or taking out or adding "a", "the" or "and" which will straighten it out. Above Salty is backwards

      A -      mid       the      salt-      y      mists    your   scent    LING-   ERS

The rhymes go:

One hand - Pinks		One hand – Mids		One hand thumbs
One hand - Rings		One hand – Index		One hand knees
One hand - Pinks		One hand – Mids		One hand thumbs
One hand - Rings		One hand – Index		One hand knees
	13th line	– Eyes	Last line	– Eyes

Follow this "rule of hand" and you will find you have made a sonnet! Lines can also go down up, just start "off" the pinky and finish "on" the thumb instead of beyond it.

Have fun!

Check out the new anthology that I am a humble part of:
http://www.amazon.com/Forged-Fire-International-Anthology-Collective/dp/0615764452/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1361459836&sr=1-1&keywords=forged+by+fire+an+international+anthology

Also a new post from YAP:

http://hiramsrhymes.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-poem-by-solace-befriends.html

Helikon Haven Poetry Blog 

is now OPEN for BUSINESS!!!

http://helikonhaven.blogspot.com/

The Helikon was the river in mythology where Orpheus the musician died. It is considered a metaphor for poetry because the river, refusing to be impure, dove into the ground so that his killers could not wash their hands. Poetry must be pure and unadulterated by greed or enmity. I hope Helikon Haven allows it to be so.

Welcome to Hiram Unleashed

A site for Poetry and Rants

writeHappyHiram@gmail.com

Hiram's Oscars

Oscar Smoshker by Happy Hiram We have waited for days making sick canapes through the channels a-lighting seeking red carpet sightings Who's gown will succeed or become blogsmears feed? We judge in, out or down each celeb in the town... Poor Seann William Scott by the Oscars, forgot Meryl Streep has been snubbed (but at least made the club...) Old George Clooney's a wreck with Pitt neck and neck; Dujardin takes the prize with Uggie by his side. till the wee hours of dawn they will still party on... To the Governor's ball on Kimmel shall we call Checking out who was there at Vanity Fair. By the end vacant stare I've forgotten why I care.

Haven

by Happy Hiram

Whitney Singing with the choir

Poets reach what they aspire

clocks go back

no problems tack

there is no muck and mire.

Lenny Bruce comes for the ride

complains there's no underside

he can't mock

'cause peace ain't schlock

so it sucks being snide.

Orchids bloom, 'till the girls all swoon

hot chicks hang in every room

candles dancing

light romancing

love that tucks away the tomb.

Whiskey, water, wine and ale

"Drink up, boys! We soon set sail!"

Devastation

to limitations.

Just grab your ruck for the rails.

Fishing for the less venturous

no one's here to censure us

Grab a pipe,

I think I might!

 (It makes me look more lecherous!!)

Peace at home for young and spry

Coffee, tea and apple pie

spitting needs

like melon seeds

who needs what or where or why?

In the midst I see it calling

snowy cherry blossoms falling

at the end of miseries wailing

nothing ending, sick or failing;

coming out of life's tunnel

birthing from a pastry funnel

to a life like a wedding cake

no uncertainty or mistake

a chance to harbor our souls and heal;

a pity heaven isn't real.

Welcome To Hiram Unleashed: Poetry and Rants

 

Happy Hiram Unleashed

The skies have changed, the road bends

the time comes to break out on our own.

We'll miss some enemies, and some friends

But life is a journey we must all go alone.

If I can bring a smile or laugh to your face

or make you pissed off (As only I know how!)

then joy and energy can alight on this place

and Hiram can be unleashed, unfettered, unbowed.

If you want to contribute to this artistic asylum

email me a poem, at writehappyhiram (@gmail.com)