Haiku A Thon 2014 Haikus 1-15

Haiku 1
Shake the pug awake
She's Godzilla hitting the town
Hear her mighty snore.

Haiku 2
She's so snack happy
Running on pug feet..here..there
The snack deserves peace.

Haiku 3
She swims on pillows
Clouds, crazy dreams, she runs fast
Pug nap races on.

Haiku 4
It did not happen
Great American novel
The sentences won.

Haiku 5
It did not happen
Chris Rock said soul mates not real
He is now worth half.

Haiku 6
You can't imagine
The mad super hero feel
New shoes on old road.

Haiku 7
The belly of beast
Had archaic moans and sighs
Minotaur steps down.

Haiku 8
The Bunny's head tilt
A curse, but an old world gaze
Both heaven and hell.

Haiku 9
Boobs, boobies, knockers
Rack, Snack tray, fun bags, the girls
Just lust of the busts


Haiku 10
Grand wooden boat dream
For a whole dollar. Just one.
A myth on the hook.

-- for the S/V Tiki Mama

Haiku 11
Really, dude, nothing
says "I love you" like mud slides
Breakfast. Lunch. Dinner.

Haiku 12
What he left me with
A spiritual conversion
To red hibiscus.

Haiku 13
I'm a cold killer
With cocktails, trickster swagger
Doubles are troubles.

Haiku 14
Lay your hands on me
Troubled waters run so deep
This rock skips lightly.

BIG SHOW of my work February at the Divine Excess Art Gallery

RhondaK Native Florida Folk Artist presents new and larger works at the Divine Excess Folk Art Gallery.

"Painted Road, Hainted Heart : New Work, Old Florida." 
Featuring stories and places growing up in Florida as a 9th generation Floridian. RhondaK's work is pervasive in Southwest Florida in homes, bars, restaurants and even humble fences. 

While she's sold in a dozen stores and galleries, she most frequently seen selling at beach side street markets. The display is always different, with new stories, ideas, colors and moods. It's a moving feast of what it is to fight with the past (Walk a Mile in my Flip Flops...and bring me back a beer), honor a history ( Free Beer..tomorrow)...and hold on to meaning. ( The Sea Called my name and I answered with all my heart.)

The loss of her father and tiki carving muse are a constant in her work, thus the idea of "hainted heart." A lost soul walking, restless...and painting. Her father was a Florida road worker that paved many Florida roads. For her the road trip has always been a gift of tenacity, love and faith.

RhondaK is also an academic Librarian working in a Sarasota County college.


Bradenton Village of the Arts at the Divine Excess Folk Art Gallery. February 7, 6-9 and 8, 11-4.

RhondaKwrites.com
http://www.rhondakwrites.com/

Pieces for February gallery show

My Cathy the fainting rooster and a version of palm background I call Tenacity. 

Show is at Divine Excess Folk Art Gallery February 7,8. 

Http://www.rhondawrites.com

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New Work, Old Florida -- RhondaK Native Florida Folk Artist's Big February Show

February 6 and 7, 2014

MAJOR WORKS Gallery Show

RhondaK Native Florida Folk Artist

Divine Excess Folk Art Gallery

"Painted Road, Hainted Heart"

New Work, Old Florida.

1125 12th Street West Bradenton
Gallery Phone: 941 747 1320

 http://www.villageofthearts.com/show_member.php?id=37

My show schedule is simple right now...but I'm adding in some live painting days I might accidentally sell things at...

I am set up to sell at Bradenton Bridge Street Market 10-3 most Sundays til May.

http://www.bridgestreetmerchants.com/Market.aspx

 

 

 

February 6 and 7, 2014

MAJOR WORKS Gallery Show

Divine Excess Folk Art Gallery

"Painted Road, Hainted Heart"

New Work, Old Florida.

1125 12th Street West Bradenton
Gallery Phone: 941 747 1320

 http://www.villageofthearts.com/show_member.php?id=37

 

RhondaK's Bio as written by Ron Wilson of Florida Secrets...2013

RhondaK   A Florida Secret That Needs Telling...

An imaginative decendant of " Old Florida", artist/poet RhondaK was reared on farmland
in Plant City that her dad ploughed with an ill -tempered horse. With Florida roots reaching
back several generations, her great grandpa was known as Mullet Man and sold smoked
fish door-to-door in Tampa.

She grew up doodling horses on everything, even the weekly bulletin of the Baptist church
that she was raised in. After being told she had no color sense, Rhonda spurrned art lessons,
preferring a non conformist appoach to match her outook on life. During the late 1990's, the
amiable rebel refined her talents and ran events like "Poetry in the Dark' in Tampa while
freelancing for the Tampa Bay Times, Weekly Planet and penning underground classics
like Holy Roadtrip.

Following a serious auto accident, Rhonda walked barefooted out of ER with a song on her
lips and courage in her heart. She then went sleepless for 3 days, determined to solve the
world's problems and was inspired to paint 30 roosters, no two alike. End result: The
childhood hurt of being told she had "no color sense" was forever dispelled.

Quitting her day job, Rhonda went to live on a boat with fellow artist Alan "TikiMan" Keller
and her funky doodles of mermaids, fish and more found an audience. This led to whimsically-
painted signs using found wood sold in the parking lot of Star Fish Restaurant, in the sleepy
fishing village of Cortez.

Relying on a rich imagination for her art and a quirky, irreverent wit for her writing, Rhonda's
clever creations are now sold on both coasts of Florida and as far away as Michigan and
New Jersey. The quintessential non-conformist draws from a rich and colorful past: fishing
with Dad, various abodes along the west coat and a fondness for Florida beach bars.
These experiences spawned numerous off-beat aphorisms like " Life is Fishing, not
Catching" and " Walk a Mile in my Flip Flops and Bring me Back a Beer". Whimsical wisdom
and vibrant art that's not extracted from a book but from her soul and the Florida she loves.

Rhonda works as a librarian at a Florida college helping people work toward their
dreams when not at her current location in Nokomis. Called the Red Hibiscus Art Farm, it
consists of several herb/vegetable garden patches, wild flowers, an outside work shed
beneath some palm trees, two inside galleries, 6 bunnies and one a wonderful dog,
(a pug) all of which end up in her paintings from time to time. 

Written by Ron Wilson
Publisher of Florida Secrets, the Insider's Guide. 2013