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8/8/2013

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This is my first blog post. You may wonder, why Blue Window? I’ll tell you. I was once in a rock and roll band, believe it or not, and one of the songs our band sang was “Helpless” by Neil Young. I loved these lyrics, especially:

Blue, blue windows behind the stars,

Yellow moon on the rise,
Big birds flying across the sky
Throwing shadows on our eyes….


Very nice! Thank you, Neil!

Several years later, I was reading, “A Writer’s Diary” by Virginia Woolf (edited by Leonard Woolf) and I kept finding haiku in her words. For example:

A very fine skyblue day--
my window completely filled
with blue for a wonder


Lovely! Thank you, Virginia!

This prompted me to write my own blue window haiku:

First day of spring--
my window
filled with blue


Then, on a trip to the South of France, I became obsessed with photographing windows with blue shutters.


And so, always being inspired by “blue” windows, I chose it for my blog title.

 

© B.J. Lee, 2011 all rights reserved
originally published in “Berry Blue Haiku,” March, 2011

51 Comments
Tabatha link
8/8/2013 09:55:04 pm

Makes perfect sense, B.J.! I like your haiku, and that's a nice painting you used for your banner. :-)

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B.J. Lee link
8/8/2013 10:00:46 pm

Thanks so much, Tabatha! And thanks for being the first to reply on my first ever blog post!

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Matt Forrest Esenwine link
8/8/2013 11:08:06 pm

Blue window = open sky = endless possibilities = perfect name for a blog! Enjoyed your poem...looking forward to seeing what else you post!

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B.J. Lee link
8/9/2013 12:01:28 am

Thank you, Matt! I really appreciate your validation!

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Gayle C. Krause link
8/8/2013 11:31:21 pm

Very nice, BJ. The BLUE sky is boundless and so are your poems. Excellent simile in your work and your blog. :)

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B.J. Lee link
8/9/2013 12:03:41 am

Thanks so much, Gail! What a lovely compliment!

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Penny Klostermann link
8/9/2013 12:05:45 am

B.J.,
I love the name of your blog!!! It's perfect! And thanks for sharing the wonderful poetry!

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B.J.Lee link
8/9/2013 12:22:12 am

Thank you so much, Penny, for validating my blog name choice! Whew! and thanks for your comment on the poetry!

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Michelle Heidenrich Barnes link
8/9/2013 03:33:14 am

Hi BJ-- very nice to meet you, fellow Floridian and poet! Now I'm no longer the newest kid on the Poetry Friday blog circuit. ;) I loved the name of your blog before you even explained yourself, but now I love it even more (I too hold a special fondness for Neil Young and french blue windows). Looking forward to the wonderful things you will be posting in the weeks to come.

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B.J. Lee link
8/9/2013 09:17:23 am

Thank you so much, Michelle! I'm curious as to where you might be in Florida. We're in Treasure Island, soon to move to Pinellas Park, a short distance away. Wish I was moving to the south of France to have my own blue window!

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Michelle Heidenrich Barnes link
8/10/2013 05:42:47 am

About 3 hrs north of you, Gainesville... la Florida sans breeze. Good luck with your move!

LInda Baie link
8/9/2013 06:19:37 am

Hi BJ, your blog title is marvelous (painting too), & your connections today beautiful. Here in the west there are lots of blue doors, supposed to make the house lucky! I have collected a few art pieces & photograph every one I see (that I like). I hope you share some of your blue shutters sometime.

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B.J. Lee link
8/9/2013 09:20:23 am

Thank you, Linda! I wasn't aware that there were lots of blue doors out west. That's so cool! I'll be sure to share all the windows I possibly can! :)

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Carrie F link
8/9/2013 06:32:04 am

BJ - Congratulations on jumping in to the blogging world. The 'blue window' metaphor is lovely, just like your poems. I'm excited to read more of them here.

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B.J. Lee link
8/9/2013 09:22:22 am

Thank you, so much Carrie! I appreciate that. I'm excited to call myself a blogger! :)

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Heidi
8/9/2013 07:08:35 am

Glad you're blogging along with us, BJ, and looking forward to more views through blue windows. Your collection of lines and shutters is beautiful.

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B.J. Lee link
8/9/2013 09:24:05 am

Thank you very much, Heidi! I look forward to a future of sharing poetry!

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Liz link
8/9/2013 08:06:30 am

BJ--Congratulations! I love your blue window theme and your blue window poems. I look forward to many more blue window posts.

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B.J. Lee link
8/9/2013 09:26:04 am

Thanks so much, Liz! I have a feeling I'm gonna love my blue window blogging!

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Linda link
8/9/2013 09:48:02 am

I love the title of your blog, and your haiku is lovely!

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Margaret Simon link
8/9/2013 09:55:23 am

Blue window, open skies, endless possibilities. Welcome to the blogging world and Poetry Friday. I hope you find it a kind place to be. Love your blue collection. Makes me want to write a blue sky haiku.

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B.J. Lee link
8/9/2013 10:57:39 am

Thank you for your kind welcome to the blogging world! I guess you could say I'm always having a blue period. :) I'd love to read your blue sky haiku. Go for it!

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Malcolm Deeley
8/9/2013 11:32:21 am

Congratulations on the debut of your blog! I love its balance of artistic style and whimsy. The transition of your "blue window" inspirations from Young, through Woolf, and finally into your own elegant haiku, are wonderful. I suspect all creative people have a blue window that opens onto skies and stars and the wonder in our lives, and I'm sure yours will open many of those vistas for us to share in.

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B.J. Lee link
8/9/2013 03:19:35 pm

Well thank you for stopping by, honey! and thanks for the kind words!

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Bridget Magee link
8/9/2013 12:52:48 pm

Great name for a blog especially hearing the back story. Look forward to peeking through your "Blue Window" in future weeks. =)

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B.J. Lee
8/9/2013 03:21:18 pm

thank you, Bridget, for validating my blog name choice. I love it and look forward to many happy hours looking through my blue window!

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Catherine Johnson link
8/9/2013 08:51:49 pm

I love how you remembered all those blue prompts and made a lovely haiku from them. I miss looking at blue shutters.

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B.J. Lee
8/10/2013 01:36:02 am

Thank you, Catherine! I miss blue shutters as well, especially if they happen to be in the south of France!

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Mary Lee Hahn link
8/10/2013 07:47:55 pm

Welcome to blogging and to Poetry Friday! Looking forward to reading more of you poems and looking through more of your blue windows!

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B.J.Lee
8/11/2013 02:46:26 am

Thanks for the warm welcome Mary Lee! I've been commenting on Poetry Friday for over a year. It's high time I joined in with my own contributions!

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Neal Levin link
8/14/2013 12:51:32 pm

Congratulations on setting up your blog, B.J. I hope to do one myself pretty soon. Yours looks great!

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B.J.Lee
8/15/2013 01:12:16 am

Thanks for stopping by, Neal! and thanks for the compliment! I would love to see you on the blog circuit!

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Gisele link
8/17/2013 11:16:48 am

I love the color blue, and I remember that haiku! It's a great blog title, too! :) Oh, wow, I'm rhyming and I'm not every trying! ROFL!

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Gisele link
8/17/2013 11:18:35 am

Ooops, typo! That was supposed to be "not even trying!" ;)

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B.J. Lee
8/19/2013 12:48:18 am

Thanks Gisele! I'm all wrapped up in blue. I thought you might remember that haiku! :)

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    B. J. Lee is a children’s author and poet. Her picture book, There Was an Old Gator Who Swallowed a Moth, is launching with Pelican Publishing on February 15, 2019. She has poems in 25 poetry anthologies published by  Little, Brown, Wordsong, BloomsburyUK, National Geographic, Otter-Barry Books, Pomelo Books, and Chicken Soup for the Soul. She has worked with anthologists Lee Bennett Hopkins, J. Patrick Lewis and Kenn Nesbitt. She has written poems for such children’s magazines as Spider, Highlights and The School Magazine. Follow her on Twitter @bjlee_writer.

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