Silent Movie: Haiku: Merry Christmas and a 2026 of Cinematic Dreams

Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Haiku: Merry Christmas and a 2026 of Cinematic Dreams - ©Theda Bara

🎄 Haiku and Art by ©Theda Bara — 2025

It’s Christmas and my heart is happy!

May we always be present

In this love that lives within us all.

Merry Christmas to all! Wishing you a day

filled with poetry and cinematic dreams.

17 comments:

J.P. AlexanderDecember 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Paso a desearte una feliz navidad para ti y tu familia. Te mando un beso
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GarfieldDecember 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Desejo a você, a sua família humana e de gatos um FELIZ NATAL! 😺

Abraços 🐾 Garfield Tirinhas Oficial.
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Ирина ПолещенкоDecember 25, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Merry Christmas, Theodosia!
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Jornalista Douglas MeloDecember 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
My dear friend Theodosia,
A fantastic Christmas Haiku
May you and your family be surrounded by love and faith on this very significant day, the birth of the Baby Jesus.
Merry Christmas!
Kisses!!!!
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Marisa Alonso SantamaríaDecember 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
¡Feliz Navidad!
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" R y k @ r d o "December 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Boa tarde:- Que bom que fosse sempre como deseja. Só que não...infelizmente.
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Continuação de boas festas
..
“” Poema: - Corações em Chama “
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Tomás BDecember 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Unos bonitos versos que muestran a las claras los sentimientos de estos días.
También te deseo unos felices días y un año cargado de buenas noticias.

Saludos.
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Ирина ПолещенкоDecember 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Merry Christmas, Theodosia!
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GarfieldDecember 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Olha quem voltou... Seu amiguinho laranja! rsrsrsrsrs

Nova tirinha publicada. 😺

Abraços 🐾 Garfield Tirinhas Oficial.
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Mário MargarideDecember 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Olá, amiga Theda!
Espero que o teu Natal tenha sido repleto de amor, paz e fraternidade, assim como foi o meu.

Deixo os votos de um feliz fim de semana, e continuação de festas felizes com tudo de bom!
Beijinhos, com carinho e amizade.

Mário Margaride

http://poesiaaquiesta.blogspot.com
https://soltaastuaspalavras.blogspot.com
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" R y k @ r d o "December 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Boa tarde:- Passando novamente a fim de deixar votos de:
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Bom fim de semana.
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Que o ANO NOVO de 2026, traga Saúde, Paz, Harmonia, esperança, e tudo o mais que seja bom para si, sua família e amizades.
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“” Poema: - Próspero ano de 2026 … Feliz Año Nuevo 2026.
“
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Lucimar da Silva MoreiraDecember 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Theda linda postagem, desejo boas festas pra você bjs.
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Carmen CardeñosaDecember 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A beautiful tribute to Christmas, dear Theda. I hope and wish that 2026 brings you inspiration to continue creating such beautiful haikus.
Happy 2026 filled with health and happiness!
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LoveT.December 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Merry Christmas 🎄
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anisette59December 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
joyeux Noel bisous bisous
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LucinalvaDecember 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Boa noite, Theda
Linda postagem, desejo um 2026 repleto das bênçãos de Deus, obrigada pela preciosa amizade, um forte abraço.
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Kasia DudziakJanuary 4, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Bardzo dziękuję za piękne życzenia. Wszystkiego najlepszego i najpiękniejszego!
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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 24, 2025

Haiku: Merry Christmas and a 2026 of Cinematic Dreams - ©Theda Bara

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