My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille August 3rd 2016 haibun imagination This week Chèvrefeuille has challenged us to create a haibun with a maximum of 250 words (including the haiku or tanka) inspired by the following image: Snail (photo found here) Part of my childhood, from the age of seven to sixteen, was […]
Category: Haibun
Arctic Escape
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Haibun Monday #17 In most parts of the UK, July and August are on average the warmest months of the year: blue skies, sunshine and soaring temperatures. Although it has been said that a British summer consists of two fine days and a thunderstorm which, until the last few […]
Pampas Dreams
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille July 20th 2016 pampasgrass When I was eleven or twelve, my family lived on the top floor of a block of council maisonettes. We shared a balcony with other residents and outside our front door and kitchen window, we had two window boxes. To get to school […]
Peeling away Another Layer
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille July 6th 2016 This week’s challenge is to create a summer haibun with a maximum of 75 words including the haiku (or tanka). It’s July. So far we’ve had mostly rain, so I haven’t worn summer clothes. On hot days, our cottage is usually a welcome […]
Ooame Orchestra
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Haibun Monday: 50 Shades of Rain Toni has asked us to write a tight one paragraph haibun, non-fiction, about rain and us, followed by a haiku about nature that ties our words together. Rain: how we experienced it, the emotions it brought out, the inconvenience it was, the beauty of it. […]
My Mother’s Hands
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille Our challenge this week is to take a haiku by a classical haiku poet: First autumn morning the mirror I stare into shows my father’s face. © Murakami Kijo* and then create a haibun with a maximum of 300 words, including our own original haiku. When […]
Cats and Willow
My response to dVerse Poets Pub’s Haibun Monday #15 All Things Quotidian Toni has challenged us to think about everyday occurrences and write about them in a compact, haibun of one paragraph with one haiku at the end. The haiku must be 5-7-5 or short-long-short and must be about nature, tying the everyday things all together. […]
Echoes of an Autumn Walk
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #112 and dVerse Poets Pub Haibun Monday Raindrops from a recent shower release a pungent whiff of mulch from the litter of autumn in various states of decay. In dry patches, below a dense lattice of branches, rusty skeletons crunch underfoot and beetles scuttle, while my boots slip […]
Chess and Lark Song
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille – a game of chess This week we are writing a haibun, prose and poetry together, in which we have to use a haiku written by Chèvrefeuille, which he wrote several weeks ago in response to a photo challenge set by MLMM: a photo of an outdoor […]
Demise of Spring – a haibun
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Haibun Monday #12 – Beauty in decay It’s a rainy Tuesday morning near the end of April. A chill wind tosses the willows, shaking young leaves that drip with icy rain. Spring buds and blooms are fearful. The daffodils in the vase have antiqued and their papery petals are […]
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