Silent Movie: Haiku: Happy New Year! [2026]

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Haiku: Happy New Year! [2026] - ©Theda Bara

🎄 Haiku and Art by ©Theda Bara — 2025

Another year comes to an end

And another begins to smile

And so, hopes are renewed!

Happy New Year to all, and may 2026 be

a year of poetry and cinematic dreams!

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Jornalista Douglas MeloDecember 31, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Dear friend Theodosia,
I wish you, your family, and your cats a blessed year, full of dreams that can be realized
May your blog of films and haikus be a source of wonderful encounters between us bloggers in 2026.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Kisses!!!
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🌺JoAnna🌺 January 1, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Hello, my dear! A wonderful post, a wonderful haiku, and I'm here to wish you a wonderful, successful, and healthy New Year, and may happiness in every form be with you.

Best regards, hugs, and best wishes for good health and smiles every day.
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Ирина ПолещенкоJanuary 1, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Happy New Year! I wish your home to be filled with comfort, love, and happiness all year round. May the new year bring many joyful and happy days! May all your dreams and wishes come true in the new year!
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Marisa Alonso SantamaríaJanuary 1, 2026 at 10:24 AM
¡FELIZ AÑO NUEVO!
Un abrazo, Theodosia,
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Tomás BJanuary 1, 2026 at 10:56 AM
Recibe esos mismos deseos de mi parte hacia ti.

Saludos.
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ellieJanuary 1, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Thanks so much! Much Happiness Everyday! All the best to 2026 💗
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AnankaJanuary 1, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Happy New Year :-D
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GarfieldJanuary 1, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Você é sempre tão gentil e poética. Desejo tudo de bom para você e sua família, humana e de gatinhos. 😺

Feliz Ano Novo!

Nova tirinha publicada. 😺

Abraços 🐾 Garfield Tirinhas Oficial.
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J.P. AlexanderJanuary 1, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Te deseo feliz año. Te mando un beso .
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jean marie 14January 2, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Coucou
Je viens en ce début d'année te souhaitez tout ce qui il y a de meilleur mais surtout la sante c'est le plus important meilleurs vœux a toi et ta famille
Et pleins d'amitiés
Jean marie 14
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Carmen CardeñosaJanuary 2, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Happy 2026!

May it be filled with health, joy, and creativity.

Big hugs.
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LoveT.January 2, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Happy New Year!
May you be protected, loved, and experience many beautiful moments.
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Mário MargarideJanuary 2, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Olá, amiga Theda.

Passando por aqui, para desejar um bom fim de semana, e a continuação de feliz 2026, com tudo de bom!
Beijinhos, com carinho e amizade.

Mário Margaride

http://poesiaaquiesta.blogspot.com
https://soltaastuaspalavras.blogspot.com
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anisette59January 2, 2026 at 8:33 PM
bonne année 2026 pour toi gros bisous
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LucinalvaJanuary 3, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Bom dia, Theda
Obrigada, desejo um 2026 repleto das bênçãos de Deus. Feliz Ano Novo! Um forte abraço.
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Kasia DudziakJanuary 4, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Thank You so much my Dear. All the best. I hope this Year will be great!
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· 🎬 ©Theda Bara - Silent Movie - Haiku

㋡ Haiku is a poetic form divided into three sentences of: five, seven and five syllables. This short poem of Japanese origin, was created in the 16th century and ended up becoming popular all over the world. The word HAIKU [俳句] is formed by two terms: [hai] (play, ludic) and [ku] (harmony, achievement). That is, it represents a poem of happiness and absence of conflict, and that's how I write, with joy and without getting attached to metrics. ༺⚜༻ August 19th is Haiku Day in Japan due to goroawase (numerical pun). 8 in Japanese is [hachi]➚HA; 1 is [ichi]➚I; 9 is [kyu]➚KU. And on April 17th, many people celebrate International Haiku Day.

· 🎬 The origin of my name

· 🎥 My dear paternal grandfather, Jonathan Jon Goodman (descendant of the Goodmans, from actress Theda Bara's father), in addition to being very wise, was a visionary man, because from a very young age, as soon as silent films appeared, he acquired some old theater rooms transforming them in (street) movie theater in Los Angeles, California, United States. My family has been involved in cinematic entertainment for decades and today we still have movie theaters in large shopping malls. This love for the seventh art motivated my father, who has the name Goodman in the genealogy of his ancestors, and my mother, a fan of Theda Bara, to baptize me with the name of this great silent film actress Theodosia, a name that comes from Greek culture and means: “gift from God”. I really like my name and I love old films, whether silent or not.

🎬 Flicker Flashbacks: from 1943 to 1948

🎥 Theda Bara acted in episodes (2 and 5) of the television series shown on American TV: “Flicker Flashbacks” from 1947, alongside Lionel Barrymore, directed by Richard Fleischer. Other big Hollywood stars also starred in the series: Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Lon Chaney, Lillian Gish, D. W. Griffith, Harry Carey, Mabel Normand, Mae Marsh, Francis X. Bushman, Harry von Zell, Minta Durfee, Wallace Reid, Ann Little, Henry B. Walthall, Maurice Costello, Agnes Ayres, Owen Moore, Blanche Sweet, Claire McDowell, Nigel De Brulier, Robert Harron, Florence Turner, Christy Cabanne, Linda Arvidson, Marion Leonard, Harold Lockwood, Knox Manning, Arthur V. Johnson, Charles K. French, Harry Solter, George Nichols, Charles Hill Mailes, Ethel Grandin, James Kirkwood, Carol Holloway, Joseph Graybill, David Miles, Charles Inslee, Walter Miller, Charles West, Ed Brady and illusionist magician Harry Houdini.

🎬 Hollywood: The Golden Years: 1961

🎥 “Hollywood: The Golden Years”, is a silent documentary shown on American TV, directed by David L. Wolper, which reports on the lives of: Thomas Edison, Gary Cooper, Gene Kelly, Buster Keaton, Greta Garbo, Lionel Barrymore, Will Rogers, Clara Bow, Carole Lombard, Tom Mix, Mary Pickford, Jackie Coogan, John Barrymore, Al Jolson, Gloria Swanson, Lon Chaney, Dolores del Río, Roscoe Arbuckle, Lillian Gish, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Astor, Norma Shearer, D. W. Griffith , Sessue Hayakawa, Marion Davies, John Gilbert, H. B. Warner, Ronald Colman, Wallace Beery, Pearl White, Dolores Costello, Edna Purviance, Mabel Normand, Eugene Pallette, Marie Dressler, Antonio Moreno, Mae Marsh, Ben Turpin, Mack Sennett, Florence Lawrence, William S. Hart, Francis X. Bushman, Renée Adorée, Richard Barthelmess, Vilma Bánky, Mae Murray, Wallace Reid, Henry B. Walthall, Billy Bevan, Montagu Love & Theda Bara.

🎬 The Love Goddesses: 1965

🎥 “The Love Goddesses”, is a silent documentary shown on American TV, directed by Saul Turell, which tells the lives of: Shirley Temple, Ingrid Bergman, Clara Bow, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow, Rita Hayworth, Lillian Gish, Brigitte Bardot, Barbara Stanwyck, Louise Brooks, Marilyn Monroe, Agnes Ayres, Claudette Colbert, Richard Barthelmess, Clive Brook, Betty Grable, Dorothy Lamour, Gloria Swanson, Horst Buchholz, Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, Joan Crawford, Ava Gardner, Jeanette MacDonald, Bette Davis, Clark Gable, Laurence Harvey, Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Myrna Loy, Gary Cooper, Hedy Lamarr, Jayne Mansfield, Montgomery Clift, Anita Ekberg, Gina Lollobrigida, Mae Marsh, Sessue Hayakawa, Carole Lombard, Maurice Chevalier , John Gilbert, Emil Jannings, Ruby Keeler, Annette Kellerman, Lya de Putti, Louise Glaum, Mae West, Hayley Mills, Mae Murray & Theda Bara.

🎬 The Woman with the Hungry Eyes: 2006

🎥 In October 2005, TimeLine Films awarded the biographical documentary: “The Woman with the Hungry Eyes”, released in early 2006, directed by Hugh Munro Neely. The film chronicles the life of cinema's first femme fatale, the vampire Theda Bara, from her Jewish childhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, to her happy retirement in Hollywood. Theda was a brilliant silent movie actress married to renowned filmmaker Charles Brabin and made more than 40 films for Fox Entertainment Group Inc., only six of which still exist.

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Haiku: Happy New Year! [2026] - ©Theda Bara

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