Silent Movie: Haiku: I am not shallow

Monday, December 15, 2025

Haiku: I am not shallow - ©Theda Bara

🎄 Haiku and Art by ©Theda Bara — 2025

I am not shallow when I pray

I am not shallow when I smile

I always overflow!

16 comments:

J.P. AlexanderDecember 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Lindo haiku, te mando un beso.
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Jornalista Douglas MeloDecember 15, 2025 at 11:10 PM
My dear friend Theodosia,
What a beautiful haiku!
I don't find it easy to write poems with so few words. The Japanese are like that, short poems (haiku) and small trees (bonsai). But, like you, the Japanese overflow with emotion.
Kisses!!!
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Ирина ПолещенкоDecember 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I am not shallow either!
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Nuria de EspinosaDecember 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM
No soy superficial... Unos haikus con palabras que es normal que desbordes con tu creatividad. Me encanta. Un abrazo
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GarfieldDecember 16, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Você transborda palavras de grande criatividade e afeto.

Abraços 🐾 Garfield Tirinhas Oficial.
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LA COCINERA DE BÉTULODecember 16, 2025 at 6:54 AM
A lo grande y con la sonrisa por delante.
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olga.tDecember 16, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Buon martedì!
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EsterDecember 16, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Superficial se es o no se es creo que no se puede ser a ratos. Ya ves que domino el verbo ser jajaja. Un abrazo
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Serena MilesDecember 16, 2025 at 10:17 AM
hola
pues estoy feliz de que desbordes
besotesssssssssssssss
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ellieDecember 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Wonderful thoughts. Thanks so much!
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anisette59December 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
très bon mardi gros bisous 💋
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LucinalvaDecember 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Boa tarde, Theda
É muito bom não ser superficial, ser sempre verdadeiro. Feliz Natal e um 2026 cheio das bênçãos de Deus, um forte abraço.
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neuriwomanDecember 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Te felicito por vivir con intensidad en tus haikus y en la vida. Un abrazo
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Adriana HelenaDecember 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Você é maravilhosa querida, aprendi a conhecê-la através dos seus lindos posts e da maneira como comenta em nossos respectivos blogs. É uma pessoas autêntica repleta de luz que leva alegria e informação para todos nós, obrigada!!
Beijos e antecipo desejos de um feliz e lindo Natal querida!!
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Maria RodriguesDecember 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Meaningful and beautiful Haiku.
May we not be superficial, but truthful.
Next week, my husband and I are going to Copenhagen to spend Christmas with my son. I take this opportunity to wish you Happy Holidays 🎄 and an excellent New Year 🎉 filled with joy, health, peace and love.
Christmas kisses
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OdnowionaJaDecember 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Beautiful words! Have a stunning time dear. Wish lots of joy, happy heart!!! <3
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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.

Monday, December 15, 2025

Haiku: I am not shallow - ©Theda Bara

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