Category: Haibun

Haibun, Poem

April Showers: A Haibun

Nancy's Notes πŸ–ŠοΈβ™¬

Written for Weekend Writing Prompt #359 (tempest, 29 words)
Moonwashed Weekly Prompt (gilt-edged) and
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge (pointless)

It’s springtime! I love to see my flowers growing but sudden storms wreak havoc on defenseless, gilt-edged blossoms.

roses madly thrashed
spring’s wild tempest rains attack
my pointless garden

NARΒ©2024
29 Words

Weekend Writing Prompt #359 – Tempest
Moonwashed Weekly Prompt – Gilt-edged
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Pointless

This is “Dead Flowers” by the Rolling Stones – Totally Stripped

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Haibun

La Luna: A Haibun

Nancy's Notes πŸ–ŠοΈβ™¬

Written for Eugi’s Moonwashed Weekly Prompt ~ Star-flecked

It seems I rarely think of the moon; she’s just there, suspended in the sky in some kind of pretentious orbit around the earth. Unlike the sun with his blistering summer rays that our mothers warned us about, the moon’s ambient glow is somehow taken for granted. I’m sure the moon is a she. We are inextricably linked, la luna and me, and I know she forgives me for not paying my respects more often. But she is present in the most unassuming of ways. It happens silently, softly in the very early hours of a new day as her lunar aura pirouettes across my lashes. My eyelids quiver open to see her peeking from behind the tree branches sprawled across the blue-grey sky. And I watch through smiling, star-flecked eyes as she gracefully disappears into the shadows.

mellow morning moon
quietly you slip away
into the stillness

NARΒ©2024

Moonwashed Weekly Prompt – Star-flecked

This is the delightful Cat Stevens with β€œMoon Shadow”

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Haibun

Fever Pitch: A Haibun

Nancy's Notes πŸ–ŠοΈβ™¬

Written for dVerse where we are asked to celebrate
the arrival of spring by writing a haibun
that alludes to the first [cherry] blossoms [hatsu hana]

Β© NAR

It was five, maybe six years ago …. I’ve forgotten …. but it was April, that much I’m sure of because the legion of cherry trees dotting the shimmering green lawn surrounding the hospital was starting to bloom. That was the Spring I almost died from pneumonia. Funny, I can’t recall the year but I remember one particular bud on the cherry tree which I could see very clearly through my hospital room window. As I became sicker with each passing day, the bud thrived, almost as if I was giving it my life force. The day the pink and white blossom fully opened was the day my fever broke.

pink bud unfurling
branches reaching for the sun
life resurrected

NARΒ©2024

Haibun Monday 3/25/24: first [cherry] blossoms (hatsu hana)

This is Perez Prado with β€œCherry Pink And Apple Blossom White”

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