Colours of Autumn

I’ve been waiting for the leaves to change colour, which seems to be a slower process this year, although our cherry tree is way ahead of all the others. Elsewhere there seems to be a rusty covering on some trees, with a few lovely lemon yellow halos here and there, but the peach and orange-coloured cherry in our garden has outdone them all. Sadly, the recent winds have given it a shaking and most of the leaves have fallen.

at first leaves smoulder
setting fire to every tree
a resplendent blush

Kim M. Russell, 21st October 2024

It’s Haibun Monday again at the dVerse Poets Pub, and Frank would like us to re-experience the seasonal kaleidoscope North and South of the Equator.  We’re talking about autumn foliage or spring blossoms!

He tells us about Saranac Lake, NY, just past Lake Placid, in the Adirondack Mountains, with its serpentine trails through arrays of orange, yellow, and red. Here in the UK, leaves have begun to turn, too. He reminds us that south of the equator, people are enjoying spring blossoms.

Frank has given examples of poems by Man Ray, Tora Dutt and Kristen Deming to inspire our haibun: one to a few paragraphs of prose, usually written in the present tense, that evoke an experience and are often non-fictional or autobiographical, preceded or followed by one or more haiku—nature-based, using a seasonal image—that complement without directly repeating what the prose stated.

41 thoughts on “Colours of Autumn”

  4. A real painting painted there…aside from the leaves having been blown away…your haiku was very literary, lovely tone to the whole piece, really as a haibun should be.

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