Week One of Haibun Thinking was a wonderful success. Thank you to everybody who came and gave it a go. I want to thank the ones who have given it a go for the first time this week as well. If you want to know what I am talking about, it is a new challenge on the Japanese writing form of Haibun. If you want to have a go, take a look here.
This week we were given the choice of a quote by Robert Burns:
Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm
Or the photo prompt which I chose.
Digging up the past creates so many different possibilities.
We find creatures of wondrous size and disproportionate mass
We find fossils so tiny they are impossible to see
The naked eye can tell us a lot
But more can be told when we delve inside
We find our world was a different place
Safer for some
Not for others
Birds the size of a battered sausage
Others the size of a titan
Earth belongs to man
We inherited it from the past.
We dig up skeletons from our closets. Monsters, Apes, Dinosaurs, Fossils, Bones, People.
history will tell us
from where we came and how
but we say where we go
interesting haiku to a perceptive narrative. enjoyed reading;)
Thank you Padmini. I always feel I have done something right when people like them 🙂
Clever guy – Big ol’ dino bones and those tucked in closets too.
That certainly will give us some direction when we want to move forward 🙂
They do indeed. Thanks Jules 🙂
Your haiku is so powerful, it delivers the perfect punch after your prose 😀
Thanks Kerrie 🙂
I particularly like your last line and your haiku Al. 🙂
Thank you LuAnn 🙂 We do say where we go, and it comes from where we have been
That is so true. 🙂
🙂 How is everybody doing?
Your haiku says it all Al. Wonderful haibun 🙂
Thank you Celestine 😀
That was a great one. I love that the skeletons are there, waiting for us to have time for archeology, even the ones in our closets. 🙂
Thanks Brenda. As I was writing it, the skeletons in the closet kind of popped out … as they are wont to do 😉
Those dang things won’t stay quiet, will they?
They never do
Really lovely Alastair ! Thinking about it .. ;never tried Haibun … more to it than first glance,it’s quite different writing for oneself as to joining in a challenge like this 😉
I find it all very fascinating .
Thank you Poppy. It’s not too bad an exercise. Many people use different ways of expressing it.
I loved the haibun…and if I may:
illusory choice
yet, someday we too will be,
archeology
more dry bones to be dug up
hopefully still by mankind. 😉
Thanks Bastet. I like that 🙂 A Tanka 🙂
LOL…glad you liked it 🙂
🙂
Very good story in your words. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks MaryAnn 🙂
awesome… I still haven’t done one of these… I got distracted…
How many distractions is it now? Is it near 6000?
I don’t know any more
I enjoyed too dear Al, Thank you, love, nia
Thank you Nia 🙂
You used the photo prompt very well. I really enjoyed the haiku.
Thanks very much Anja 🙂
You are very welcome Al 🙂
Excellent Al, I did love the way you have used the photo to create that sense of discovery. Well done I enjoyed this one. Have a good day.
Thanks very much 🙂 I enjoyed writing this one the second time. The first draft was completely different lol