Drama in the Sky

My response to dVerse Poets Pub Haibun Monday: The Sky IS the Limit

Toni is our host this Haibun Monday and she has asked us to write our haibun about the day sky – from dawn to dusk and any time in between.

Norfolk is known for its flatness and big, wide open skies, where you can see the whole horizon, usually dotted with church towers, windmills and sails. The wind blows in from the North Sea, stunting trees, sculpting them into hunchbacked goblins against brilliant sunsets. You can’t escape a Norfolk sky; it always has a cloud in it or a whole sky full of different types of clouds. Over in the east the sky may be blue with fluffy white ones; in the west there are banks of clouds like waves; while overhead, breath-taking charcoal storm clouds threaten thunder, lightning and rain.

drama in the sky

 turbulent watercolours

condensed in cloudscapes

© Kim M. Russell, 2016

Norfolk Clouds 2

41 thoughts on “Drama in the Sky”

  2. Those big wide open skies can be intimidating. I was driving through Kansas when I was a kid going to Oregon and I kept looking for a tornado or something – it was so scary to me – I felt the sky was going to swallow me up!

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  5. I could feel the wind, the clouds closing in on me…in Texas we have skies that look like that a lot but we are always looking for tornados cause I live right in tornado alley so when the sky looks like yours does now you better be finding shelter because there is probably one on the ground somewhere close. I loved your words for the verse…you have such a talent and I love that you share it with all of us. Thanks…have a great week my friend. Kat

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    1. Thank you, Kat. I’m hosting dVerse Poets Pub Poetics today but I can’t get on until later because of the time difference. I look forward to reading what you think. Have a great day, Kim x

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  6. Spectacular! I love how you have described the skies over your Norfolk. The photo certainly shows the goblins and the different kinds of sky. I love the mix of blue sky with rainy stormy sky. The haiku is excellent and certainly bespeaks the drama in the skies. Just gorgeous.

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    1. I’m a little disappointed my shot didn’t include a church, a windmill or some sails! That’s one of the things that clinched moving up to Norfolk all those years ago -driving along and seeing sails gliding across fields in the distance – you can’t see the water from the road! But don’t you just love a good storm?

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  15. I’ll probably never visit that coast, or the North Sea, but your wonderful words transport me magnificently, & the haiku caps it superbly.

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  16. I live on the coast so can identify with being able to see for miles and miles – although to the north we are bound by the South Downs. Brighton does have its own micro-climate – this morning we were bathed in bright, bright sunshine but north of the downs it was summer mist for quite some distance. Lovely haibun!

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    1. Thank you, Freya! I have a very good friend who used to live in Brighton. She used to part-own a hotel with her mum, step-dad and twin brothers. Being a single mum in those days, I used to take Ellen down for holidays – I’d help in the hotel – washing up, clearing breakfast tables and cleaning rooms – in return for bed and breakfast for a few days. It was a blast and I have a soft spot for Brighton. The last time I was there was last year for a Caspian gig.

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  19. East Anglia is where I escape to if only for the sight of a horizon and skies that you have drawn so well in words – ‘trubulent watercolours’ stick always in my mind’s eye now

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