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Andrea Dietrich grew up in Iowa and now resides in Utah with a spouse and two cats. She has two grown children and six grandchildren. Having graduated BYU with a Spanish major/ESL minor, she has spent most of her adult life teaching. It wasn't until 2000 that she began writing in earnest and discovering her "niche" as a writer of lyrical poetry. The internet opened up a new world for her, and she has spent two decades now participating in poetry clubs, acting as a judge of poetry contests for various magazines, for the website Shadow Poetry, and for Poetry Soup.

Ms. Dietrich has won numerous awards, as well as the title Poet of the Year 2008, from the Yahoo group, Poetry For Thought. In addition, she has won prizes from the magazines Lucidity, Bell's Letters, Art with Words, Poets at Work and SP Quill, the magazine for which she wrote grammar and poetry articles as well as movie reviews and for which she acted as poetry editor for the head editor Marie Summers for six years. Many of her poems appeared in Shadows Ink, a yearly published series of chapbooks of award winning poetry as well as in numerous other anthologies. Her short stories appeared in many issues of SP Quill and much of her poetry was published in eight chapbooks (no longer sold online).

Since coming to Poetry Soup, Ms. Dietrich has been both contest sponsor and winner of numerous contests. In 2010, her poem "Cinder Girl" was first place winner of Soup's International contest (these contests are no longer held). A song was created from her lyrics "Honeymoon Serenade" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDWxc4cpHDc) and two movies have been made featuring the poetry of Andrea Dietrich: "A Tale of Fire and Ice" (a 4 min. Z-Film Fest Project, 2014) and the full length movie "Six Days of Sistine" in which 20 poems of Ms. Dietrichs serve as the thoughts of two characters played by Jamie Campbell Bower and Elarica Johnson (directed by Richard J. Perry, 2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7710360/

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GREAT ANIMAL HAIKU/WHICH DO YOU LIKE BEST?

Blog Posted:9/26/2010 7:35:00 PM

Please if there is anyone who can tell me how I can make poems placed individually inside the blog box NOT come out double spaced, I would really appreciate learning how to do this becuase i have many great examples(for my contest) of animal haiku but they would make my previous blog appear much too crowded, so that is why I am showing them here (with the crazy double spacing effect unfortunately)

These are haiku I selected because they dealt with animals and I thought they were really cool. I hope you enjoy reading them and that they might inspire you to think of an animal and use it to say something extraordinary in relation to a "moment" in the season of fall. Let me know. Which ones here do YOU like best, and what do you like about them? These are from the magazine (no longer published) but still sold at Shadowpoetry.com: White Lotus: Edition #19/ Fall/Winter 2009:

1) 2) 3)

lingering heat low tide private beach

the kitchen clock hermit crabs run a seagull

counts the crickets’ song with the wind rides the swells

By Matthew M. Cariello By Sharon Mununggur By William Kenney

4) 5) 6)

morning sprng morning only one cloud

the full-throated song a mewl of kittens a broken robin's egg

of a thrush under the house on the front lawn

By Susan Constable By Dawn Bruce By Susan Constable

7) 8) 9)

winter white woods at sunset winter arrives

an egret snug crows and bats scampering across my floor

against a tree trade places white-footed mice

By George G. Dorsty By George G. Dorsty By Jeff Hoagland

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Skat
A

Date: 10/5/2010 11:42:00 AM

HI!ANDREA~ I AM SEARCHING FOR NEW BLOGS UNDER YOUR NAME. IS THIS YOUR LATEST*luv~SKAT

Poet Destroyer
A

Date: 9/30/2010 6:44:00 PM

Hello, Andrea how are you doing, I'm trying to build up the nerve to enter contest.lol.. Weee! I am here hanging around the blogs..My sister helped me with comments earlier. I've been a bit sick these last 2 days. Gotta move on my comments here on the blog,..later P.D.

De
R

Date: 9/30/2010 10:01:00 AM

Andrea..just a little question about your contest...can my haiku have an other form that 5/7/5? For example, a haiku with 3/8/5:D? Hugs, Emilia

Brandee
Augustus

Date: 9/29/2010 1:38:00 PM

I love the flow of #2 and I like the even amount of syllables in #3. I actually like what each line says. I don't necessarily like the spacing of each haiku; but I like that there is an option other than the 5/7/5 way of writing haikus.

Sara
Kendrick

Date: 9/29/2010 9:08:00 AM

Like all these Haiku...I don't know about this double spacing for I have not had that problem...Maybe the people who own the site can help..Thanks for stopping by my blog and for your support..Sara

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 9/27/2010 8:20:00 PM

Thanks for telling me what you liked, constance and Carolyn, tonight. I think number 8 is the only one nobody chose!

Constance
La France

Date: 9/27/2010 8:00:00 PM

#4 speaks to my heart, of course I love birds, so it would~~

Carolyn
Devonshire

Date: 9/27/2010 5:00:00 PM

Many of these are very good, but I like two and seven the best. I think it's just because I see so many egrets and hermit crabs in Florida and the images come through so clearly. Like number nine also. Nice selection, Andrea. I'm trying to come up with something for your contest. Have an idea, just hasn't materialized yet. Love, Carolyn

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 9/27/2010 4:50:00 PM

Kris, good choices! Oh, Deb. I feel the same way. People think it is so easyto do haiku? but no, to get into a magazine like Lotus, my gosh, look how you have to write. Keep in mind, none of these really is about fall per se. So you can use any of these animals or other animal and put it in a fall scene! LUv, Andrea ps Winter sure had lots of examples, and spring too!

Kris
Walters

Date: 9/27/2010 1:47:00 PM

#6 and #9 really stand out to me. In my uneducated opinion #6 is the best at capturing a scene, very clever. #9 is very clever too with the juxtaposition. These are all great for inspiration! Hugs, Kris

Debbie
Guzzi

Date: 9/27/2010 1:24:00 PM

well sigh..what I think and I'm NOT trying to me mean or bad.. is now you used up SO many of the ones we might want to use. I for one did research on the kigo and picked cricket now i feel like a copy cat, I should just remove the poem? All of them are lovely. Way better than mine which wouldn't even get put by a 5 year old in a grocery story kiddie hiaku magizne..gah! GAH, scream

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 9/27/2010 7:06:00 AM

Constance, thanks so much for your practical advice. I hope I can remember to follow that next time I attempt it. And Chris, I bet you had a heyday with haiku going crazy. I want to try it too, but of course, it will be nothing like the haiku you see in this blog here haha.

Constance
La France

Date: 9/27/2010 6:29:00 AM

press shift enter at same time at end of line~~

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 9/26/2010 9:58:00 PM

Chris, I think I said where I got these haiku from inside the blog, yes, there it is: from WHITE LOTUS. Marie Summers was editor and she had to shut it down last year as she did also with SPQuill, which I'd helped her edit. The economy just did her in! I really hated seeing those magazines go. She gave me a complimentary Lotus every time they came out in exchange for my help with the Quill. I miss those magazines so much. I have read many haiku, Chris, all of them similar to the type presented here. And now I am trying to get into it myself. I wish I'd tried just once to get into Lotus before Marie stopped publishing it!

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 9/26/2010 9:53:00 PM

LInda, what do you mean by "adjust your spacing?" Where do I find this feature? And yes, Nikko, I use copy/pasting and it doesn't work. thanks for your comments, guys. I myself like best the bottom row of haiku here!

Kabuteng P.Ink
K.

Date: 9/26/2010 9:48:00 PM

oh cooler still that you posted these examples!! haha maybe I can kidnap some of these animals for my entry?? Sorry, I have no idea how to make them single spaced though? have you tried typing them in Word first then copying and pasting it to your blog? I liked the 2nd haiku you posted here though :) cool image pops to mind-- skittering hermit crabs :) hugs

Linda-Marie
Sweetheart

Date: 9/26/2010 9:01:00 PM

Just adjust your spacing when creating blog while choosing font, and other features..luv..its easy.. thankxxx for the tidbit info on Nikko's contest... must have missed that rule..

Joyce
Johnson

Date: 9/26/2010 8:12:00 PM

I like number 4 and 5. Probably just because I like birds and kittens. Thanks for the samples. Love, joyce

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 9/26/2010 7:57:00 PM

EXACTLY, Paula!! well, I've been here a long time getting my contest ready. Guess I will finally pull myself away. See ya later, alligator!

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 9/26/2010 7:54:00 PM

Paula, that is why i gave these example. I have been reading Lotus magazine for months. It helped me to understand what haiku is. By reading lots of these kinds of haiku, you can start to see easily just WHAT they are!! Oh, and I did try the copy/paste thing, but where is the edit feature that gets rid of double spacing?? I bring my poems to my blog and they automatically double space even if they were single spaced before I copied them!! Anybody out there can you help me understand how to edit out the dang double spacing??

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3/25/2024	I’ll Always Be Loving You	Lyric	love,
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PoemTitle	Form	Categories
The Stone	Elegy	death,love,
A Winter Night	Lyric	imagination,nature,
Violin	Personification	death,love,rose,
Just Wait and See	Free verse	nature,science,space,
My White Lace Tablecloth	Narrative	family,forgiveness,friend
A Limerick Christmas Three (3) .	Limerick	funny,seasons,thank you,c
Always Mothers Day	Rhyme	funny,mother,thank you,me
A Pirate Jay	Light Verse	animals,
Divine Splendor	Blank verse	introspection,nature,scie
Brother - Billy	Narrative	brother,childhood,family,
Umbrella	Personification	confusion,devotion,life,l
You Played Me	Personification	confusion,imagination,mus
Concept of Time	Free verse	nature
Jingle	Free verse	funny,life,music
An Ever-Changing Universe	Narrative	mysterylight,light,univer
Transcendence	Tanka	fantasy,imagination,natur
Spaces .... the Earth Moved .....	Imagism	love
December Sun .	Rhyme	naturewinter,sun,winter,
A Whisper On the Wind	Personification	nature,
Footsteps	Free verse	fatherme,me,
If Ever	Free verse	love,
Dreams Like Light-Waves	Prose Poetry	imaginationautumn,
A Fantsy World	Haiku
September Song (Triple Tanka)	Tanka	nature
Where the Sycamore Grew	Narrative	autumn,family,house,life,
Perfect Nature	Haiku	nature
Wild Love	Narrative	garden,love,rose,sweet,
Positive Perspective	Tanka	inspirational
My Pilot Light	Verse	inspirational,introspecti
Love's Echos	Free verse	lovevoice,love,me,voice,
For Wifey	Rhyme	loveme,love,me,i love you
Alabaster Night	Free verse	nature,planet,sea,
Causalities of War	Elegy	death,war,
" Ike and Jane "- Sequence 2	Light Verse	funny,love,wifeme,me,time
Pretty Orchids	Free verse	caregiving,happiness,hope
Even a Sparrow Soars	Free verse	animals
My Piano Knows	Verse	devotion,happiness,holida
Dancing With the Stars	Free verse	nature,scienceblue,
The Unrequited Mantra	Free verse	devotion,hope,lost love,l
Fig Tree, New Year's Day	Narrative	naturewinter,winter,new y
Poets At-Large	Free verse	life,
To Know You	Free verse	devotion,husband
Moved To Tears By Josh Groban	Verse	music,on writing and word
Sequence-Sonnet	Lanterne	life,love,on writing and
Reflections	Free verse	happiness,life,lovesun,
Somber Is the Color of the Day	Free verse	day,light,me,winter,words
A Winter Rose - a Sonnet	Sonnet	rose,winter,
The Word Weaver	Free verse	introspection,lifeme,
Each Day a Gift	Free verse	inspirational,introspecti
Contrary Kisses	Free verse	inspirational,introspecti
She Waits...	Free verse	art,hopelonging,
Blue Heaven	Haiku	nature
A Death In the Sun	Free verse	hope,seasons
My Reason For Living	Free verse	husband
Terra Firma	Haiku	nature,science,time
How Could I Have Known	Free verse	husband,love,mystery
True Poetry In Motion?	Free verse	inspirationalmay,
Frozen In Time	Free verse	seasonssnow,snow,
Forgotten Treasure	Light Verse	adventure,art,beauty,enco
Putting On Makeup	Rhyme	introspection,sad,
Desire	Light Verse	butterfly,flower,life,los
Love? Bah!	Rhyme	lost love,lovelove,
Real Life Shoe Fable	Clerihew	husband
Black and Blue	Rhyme	abuse,funny,husband,me,
Foreboding	Haiku	mystery,nature
A Song At Sunrise	Couplet	faithsong,song,
Beat Out the Rhythm	Rhyme	funny
What Do the Stars Tell a Lover's Heart	Free verse	adventure,fantasy,happine
The Green Checkered Face	Free verse	food,happinessheart,heart
Play It	Free verse	inspirational,love,music,
Twilight's Fading Light	Free verse	life,nature
Marble In Columns On Green	Couplet	brother,daughter,father,h
I Will Be Strong	Free verse	angst,husband,lossme,
The Beauty of Yore	Free verse	nostalgia
Wandering Soul	Free verse	happiness,inspirational,n
Sunset On Galway Bay (Haiku No. 34)	Haiku	inspirational
Transformation	I do not know?	allegory
If You Are Lonely	Free verse	inspirational,introspecti
Time Out	Free verse	depression,devotion,fanta
Winter Promise	Free verse	nature
I Am..(Tagged By Raul, Now I'M Tagging Elaine George).	Free verse	introspectionbeautiful,be
Brown Sands	Lyric	introspection,lifemystery
Dancing At a Temple	Rhyme	devotion,
Daybreak Up High	Free verse	inspirational
Tea For Two	Free verse	introspectionme,me,
Peak District United Kingdom	Prose Poetry	inspirational
Paper	I do not know?	allegoryme,
Nine O'Clock	Limerick	funny
Frozen Memories	Tanka	art
Summer's Voice	Free verse	seasons
Lazy Day	Free verse	life,nature
I Was Me	Bio	life,
The First Kiss Or That Darn Ann Landers	Lyric	me,nostalgia,song,travel,
Crimsom Beauty	Dramatic Monologue	angst
Red Geraniums	Free verse
Zoo Fright	Limerick	funny
As I Hid	Monoku	muse,
Three Messengers	Narrative	animals,faith,inspiration
Stretchy Neck	Lyric	animals
A Round Tuit	Shape	funny