A Tiny Pocket

July 28, 2025

A Tiny Pocket

Fun-Loving

snowbird flamingo
art in the bathroom, a laugh
where least expected

—dotty seiter

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*envelope (flap side) and enclosure card*

*envelope (front side)*
acrylic, marker, water soluble pastel, and washi tape
2025

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Notes about poem and art:
• “Fun-Loving” is a tiny playful haiku about a sizable poster that was way fun to order as a 40th-birthday gift for someone whose bathroom makes a terrific gallery for lighthearted and unexpected whimsy.
• An analogous colors exercise from about 10 years ago rose to the occasion of becoming an envelope in which to tuck cash for a summer concert as well as an enclosure card to announce the didn’t-arrive-on-time-for-the-birthday-itself-but-will-get-to-you-soon wishlist art, art that will alternate seasonally with the similarly humorous bird art that was last year’s gift.

artist at play

haiku, salle de bain galerie, silly seagulls and fanciful flamingos

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Dotty Seiter

11 responses to “A Tiny Pocket”

lolajovan

July 28, 2025 at 1:00 pm

beautiful!!!!!!! Flamingo colors! And as always, your poetry makes me smile. 😁

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1. Dotty Seiter
  
  July 28, 2025 at 1:39 pm
  
  LOL at myself for not having noticed the flamingo colors which in my mind were randomly selected from my fodder!!! Thanks for smiling with me in response to this whimsical haiku—it was fun to write : )
  
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Joyful Puttering

July 29, 2025 at 2:53 pm

Either it was you…or someone else I know that has a fun bathroom flamingo story! Love it. And I love the happy envelope and card enclosure. Summer fun!

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1. Dotty Seiter
  
  July 29, 2025 at 3:32 pm
  
  Great fun to know someone else has a fun bathroom flamingo story; in our case, it’s daughter-in-law Christine whose bathroom is whimsically wonderful to visit, starting with a “stupid seagulls” poster a year ago, and now a snowbird flamingo poster. The posters will each get time in the spotlight for six months annually : )
  
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carol lee

July 30, 2025 at 3:15 am

Snowbird flamingo! That could be used in a conceit!

Lucky person to get that flaming envelope!

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1. Dotty Seiter
  
  July 30, 2025 at 4:09 am
  
  A conceit! Good call, Carol—I hadn’t even thought in those terms! A+ to you for retaining and applying info from your poetry course.
  
  And look at you using poetic language to celebrate my small gift envelope—I love the wordplay of flaming and flamingo’s dancing together : )
  
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carol lee

July 30, 2025 at 4:21 am

You are up early! Good for you! I tried to post the original poem again. Didn’t take it. Edited again taking out these words: boom, WhatsApp, safe room, and put downed in place of shut down. Was accepted! Crazy! Tried to contact a human but its bot bot bot!

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1. Dotty Seiter
  
  July 30, 2025 at 5:49 am
  1. I’m an early riser routinely but woke even earlier than usual today so got up and got moving!
  2. Wow. Until you started telling me about having difficulty posting your poem at Coursera, I’d never even considered that there was any kind of bot censoring or otherwise. I wonder how you might be able to get through to a person—perhaps through the instructor?
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Sheila Marie Delgado

July 30, 2025 at 9:05 pm

Love, Love, Love! ;o)

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1. Dotty Seiter
  
  July 31, 2025 at 6:46 am
  
  Thanks, Sheila! Fun, fun, fun, yes?!
  
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  1. Sheila Marie Delgado
    
    July 31, 2025 at 3:56 pm
    
    YES!
    
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