A rainbow is the marriage of sunlight and rain. When kissed by a raindrop, a beam of white light disperses, in a similar way to light through a glass prism, into the colours at the ends of the visible light spectrum. We are taught about optical phenomena in school science lessons. However, as a child I believed in a magic bridge to the land of the fairies and that, at the rainbow’s end, I would find a crock of gold.
every raindrop
a valley full of rainbows
evanescence
Kim M. Russell, 2018

My response to Carpe Diem #1410 Rainbow (short-haibun)
Today’s theme is ‘rainbow’, together with a haiku by Kobayashi Issa use or revise in a short-haibun, with a maximum of 100 words (including the haiku).
evening’s fall colors –
the rainbow in the valley
fades away
© Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828)
Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #8: Kim Russell’s latest #haibun! for Carpe Diem!
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Thank you, Frank!
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My pleasure, Kim 😇
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I love this Kim…different ways of perceiving rainbows. Your haiku is stunning in its implied contrasts of feeling (what I felt anyway 🙂
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Thank you, Janice! 🙂
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Fantastic Imagines. 😎🥀😎🥀😎🥀😎🥀
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