Silent Movie: Haiku: Victorian Women

Friday, April 10, 2026

Haiku: Victorian Women - ©Theda Bara

Haiku and Art by ©Theda Bara — 2026

Tighten your corset, hide in your petticoat
Submissive: your words are silenced
Victorian women: prisoners of society, of ideas and clothes.

16 comments:

J.P. AlexanderApril 10, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Profundo poema de una época que ha sido muy romantizada.. Te mando un beso.
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AneApril 11, 2026 at 1:04 AM
É verdade. Ainda bem que não vivi nesta época. Até hoje lutamos por mais igualdade em relação aos homens.
Beijos nas bochechas! Bom fim de semana!
(o゜▽゜)o☆
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AnankaApril 11, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Well written and true :-D
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Serena MilesApril 11, 2026 at 9:40 AM
hola
el haiku te ha quedado genial
Besotesssssssssss
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Ирина ПолещенкоApril 11, 2026 at 9:51 AM
I feel sorry for the women who lived in the Victorian era. I wonder how they wore those dresses!
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moja-enklawaApril 11, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Unfortunately, it's a sad truth.
Have a nice weekend!
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Mário MargarideApril 11, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Olá, amiga Theda.
Outros tempos outras eras. Ainda bem que já assim não é.
Gostei bastante.

Votos de um bom fim de semana, com tudo de bom.
Beijinhos.

Mário Margaride

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https://soltaastuaspalavras.blogspot.com
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" R y k @ r d o "April 11, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Maravilhoso, lindo de ler.
.
Feliz Fim de semana
.
“” Não me critiques… ““
.
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Jornalista Douglas MeloApril 11, 2026 at 6:46 PM
My dear friend Theodosia,
Another Haiku very well done by your creative mind. You always valuing women and I think that's commendable.
Kisses!!!
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Tomás BApril 12, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Un bello poema dedicado a esas mujeres que sufrían desde que comenzaban a vestirse.

Saludos.
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jean marie 14April 12, 2026 at 3:09 PM
un super billet , bien écrit , bonne soirée et bonne fin de Dimanche
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Cecy (Enredados entre Libros)April 12, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Hi. Your haiku turned out great. Best regards.
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LoveT.April 12, 2026 at 5:28 PM

Very well analyzed. A great haiku.
Kisses
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Jaime PortelaApril 13, 2026 at 2:57 PM
No passado, as mulheres eram prisioneiras de um espartilho global. Mas ainda hoje há alguns espartilhos que afetam as mulheres em geral, mesmo nas sociedades ocidentais.
Excelente haiku, gostei muito. Diz bastante em muito poucas palavras.
Boa semana.
Saudações poéticas.
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GarfieldApril 16, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Mulheres da época vitoriana só tinham “vitória” no nome da época. Com esse monte de roupas, só imagino tirar na hora de uma dor de barriga. rsrsrsrs

Nova Tirinha Publicada 😼

Abraços 🐾 Garfield Tirinhas Oficial.
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Majo DutraApril 21, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Yes, it was a time of great repression, and few women were aware of it.
I liked your haiku...
~~~
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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.

Friday, April 10, 2026

Haiku: Victorian Women - ©Theda Bara

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