Written forย Haibun Mondayย where we have been asked
by Frank J. Tassone at dVerse Poets Pubย to write a haibun
incorporating โMay Transcienceโ, using the Japanese idiom
of โMono No Awareโ. My granddaughter was my muse.

Sheโs four now and it seems like yesterday she was barely walking, crawling sideways like a huge pink crab with her undeveloped knees brushing the floor in lightning speed. Her golden blonde hair is loose, flowing almost to the tops of her thighs like the fragrant flowers trailing from a Maypole. We laugh when we worried that these glorious tresses would never grow out and she would forever be the source of jokes by the mean girls in school. But that was not to be as this indescribably beautiful child standing before us with all the presence and attitude of Xena the Warrior Princess will stake her claim and win against any goddess wannabees. No more baby bubble pipes for this one; she has moved into the power bubble zone. She is a force of nature.
intergalactic shifts
bound from planet to planet
hail the bubble queen
NARยฉ2024
This is Biffy Clyro with “Bubbles”
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