Tags
Welcome to our sixth Haibun Monday! If this is your first attempt at haibun, please check out the the first one we had in September. That will give you some information about the haibun form.
Each month we use different prompts to trigger poetic creativity. So today I am using four of my photos for inspiration. Choose one of them.
I chose these photos as I feel they have an eerie and timeless quality and I hope they will inspire your poetry.
Once you have decided on a photo, let yourself get lost in it. You can either start with the prose or the haiku. What emotions does the photo evoke in you? Immerse yourself in its atmosphere and see what you come up with.
Since these are my photos, I would be most grateful if you attribute them to me.
Try to keep your haibun (which must be inspired by one of these photos for 6th Haibun Monday) reasonable in length, and use one single haiku at the end. Please also link back to dVerse.
As the prompt is open for a whole week, there is plenty of time to write, read and comment on everyone. Come back often to see what is new. You ar most welcome to write more than one haibun.
When you post your haibun:
Enter a link directly to your poem and your name by clicking Mr. Linky below.
Leave a small comment below, and participate in our discussions.
There you will find links to other poets, and more will join during the next 48 hours.
Read and comment on other poets’ work, as we all go here to have our poems read.
Promote your site and poetry you like on social media of your choice.
Above all, have fun.
dVerse 
Hello dear friends… I know Gabriella will be a little late… so i have prepared some wonderful green tea. Come sit down and listen to the sound of waterfalls or maybe we can go out and feed the koi-fish in the pond outside… 🙂
Thanks for taking care of the green tea, Björn. I am back from work a little earlier than I expected.
Good to see you at the bar… I know it’s in good hands now… Loved your pictures… such a great variation in theme..
Thank you, Björn. I tried to select photos that did not point to a country or a culture in particular.
You know how a picture for a story should be chosen…. 🙂 Something learned at FF…
I loved FF. I wish I still had time for it.
Thanks for the tea, Sir. Chilly here in SO Nev here today.
I am always up for feeding the koi. I love to hold bits of lettuce up in the air, a few inches from the water, and have them come up out of the water to grab it. We had a pond with 8 monster sized ones. Love koi!
I think we should have one in the bar… 🙂
I love koi as subjects of watercolor paintings.
Yes, let’s have a koi pond!!! They can be so sassy.
I would love a koi pond! In fact, Mira and I were invited to feed the fish in a neighbor’s koi pond today. There were a couple of koi but most had been eaten by otters, raccoons, etc. There were tilapia and tiny minnows and adorable full grown but small turtles swimming about. We had a great time.
It sounds like a wonderful time! I just love ponds in general – the various fish, turtles, frogs….Ours was in our backyard and a fence surrounded the yard. He designed it and built it as a true Japanese garden koi pond. It was a joyful thing to be around. He had a very spoiled, jealous koi: tsuki no hime – Moon Princess. She could tell by the vibrations if it was him or me that came to feed them. If him, she was fluttering at the top of the water and often coming up out of the water to eat out of his fingers. If me, she went to the other end, pouting, until I left. They loved being fed bits of lettuce, melon, apple. I called her Princess Greedy….lol
Ha…Princess Greedy, and pouting of all things! I never would have thought a fish could pout…
Yeah, they can… 🙂 fat little wretch that she was….
:~)
I’m here for a few minutes. Been at hospital most of the day with hubby but we’re home now and he is much better! We are both whipped out though. I really enjoyed these wonderful pics of Gabriella’s. Rain, water, waterfalls, coursing streams and rivers….puts me in mind of spring freshets. Thank you Gabriella and so very good to have you with us!
I’m glad you are both home… hope all is well with you. Yes the pictures where all good, but finally I opted for the darkest one.. (I just wonder why…)
Glad to know your husband is doing fine.
Thank you Gabriella. I loved the one of the stone bridge. That one truly spoke to me. And rain as a theme – so fresh and like spring rains!
I loved it too. I doubt Gabriella will appreciate my interpretation though. 🙂
Sorry to hear of your husband’s trouble but glad that you’re both home. It’s not easy hanging out at the hospital with a loved one.
Now that we are home safe, we will both be much better. Thank you for your kind words.
So glad you’re back home, and safe.
Your pictures are truly amazing. Hard to choose which I’ll use. Thank you, Gabriella. I will credit you.
Thank you! You are most welcome. 🙂
You are welcome also!
I am reaching more and more away from form, but the haibun always interests me. It really is a special way of writing. I let my husband read a few of them that I wrote and he has come to like it also.
Haibun is indeed an interesting form to explore. I am glad you like it.
I am glad he liked haibun and that you let him read. I love haibun. I’ve started keeping a journal a la Basho, he felt everything was amazing. Even just a mosquito! I’ve been doing this form for years but always learn something new or a new perception of the form.
I wouldn’t write very nice things about mosquito’s~!
🙂 spawn of the devil they are.
Hello, everyone. Nice to see you at the bar tonight. Off to read some of your haibun for a while.
Gabriella, these photos are GORGEOUS.
I am being predictable. Always, always drawn to rain!
Thank you so much!
I linked a haibun to this challenge and then realised I hadn’t actually attributed the photo to you – I will go back now and correct my mistake.
Thank you, Suzanne!
Wonderful choice of photos, Gabriella. I am looking forward to reading some interesting poetry this week! Good to see you at the bar today……
I am happy to be here after a long pause. Pity I will have to go back to my limbo state soon.
Whoever linked me – Thank You!!!!!
Oops. I’d already done my Haibun Monday before this went up, https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com/2016/02/01/wordle-236-and-haibun-monday/
so I’ll have another go, this time on prompt – the pictures are lovely.
I realised I had made a mistake and linked my second attempt on Mister Linky, but I think Mary took it down, and now I cannot get the right link to stick. Oh dear!
Glad it is now sorted out, Viv! Your link is there.
Thank you, Gabriella for your interesting photos to choose from. My pick was immediate…I love those bridges. And special thanks to you again for helping me get your photo in my post.
I am late with my entry but joining in ~ Have been busy with work & endless office work, smiles ~ I am now making my rounds ~
Thanks for the lovely photos Gabriella ~ Happy Monday everyone ~
You are welcome, Grace. I am glad you could join in.
Happy Monday, Grace!
Happy Tuesday back to you Gayle ~
Oh!! This was so much fun…thank you!!
This was the point! 🙂 I am glad you enjoyed the challenge.
What I’ve read so far is just wonderful, thanks to your photos, Gabriella.
Please note, everyone, I will be visiting my mom for a few days and will try to catch up on Friday when I return. Keep them coming.
Take it easy, Victoria, and enjoy your visit.
Thanks for doing this – haven’t tried one before – saw it over on De’s blog and it looked like fun.
Haibun are addictive –
Hope that no one minds too much at my bit of “rebellion”. I ended my haibun with a Than Bauk instead of a Haiku. Yep, I’m a rebel 🙂
Pingback: Reflections on a Train – writing in north norfolk
I’m late to the party — and somehow I could not figure out how to copy Gabriella’s beautiful photo! I usually can manage that but somehow…this time, could not. Any help with that, I would be most grateful. A hint or two?
I’m posting from Bermuda! We are here now until March 29….it is stunningly beautiful. I’m certain much of my poetry in the next month or so will be motivated by this beautiful place!
I shall read all of your works this evening…off for a beautiful coastal hike now. Looking forward to seeing your haibuns!
lillian
It sounds wonderful… We have so much different weather here. Sometimes I find that darkness inspire my poetry more.
I see that Suzanne of artifactsandfictions.com have decided to leave Dverse. I commented on her post Game Changers and thought I’d repeat it here. The rigidity of the rules on Haibun Mondays can be restrictive to one’s creativity. The photographs posted are invariably from a personal collection of any given host and may very well not mean anything to a participant. A haibun is a haibun surely, irrespective of the theme being proposed? If one has been particularly inspired by an authentic personal experience or event in one’s own life I do not see why it should be rejected because a prompt given wasn’t followed – as long as it follows the haibun form. It reminds of primary school.
Is this the comment to which you referred on my blog? I think there has been an all round misunderstanding, which is probably best put behind us all.
Viv, you are fine! Your correct link is in place.
The idea is to have people be inspired by a quote or photos. The prompter is different each month to offer a variety of approaches. The photos this tim were taken on different continents several years apart. Some were abstract while some were more realistic.
Such are the rules. People do not have to take part of they do not like them.
I agree. It is a choice. Do or don’t do- there are rules everywhere!
But public shaming is off-putting and could be done privately.
I have a suggestion for the suggestion box, should there be one ^_^. I would enjoy every, let’s say 3rd or 4th haibun challenge to be open. Strict haibun rules but open to any creative thought.
Just my suggestion. I wasn’t sure where to drop it so this seemed like a good spot!
Thanks for your inputs ~ We will discuss among the team members, and make suggestions ~
As I mentioned, we have OpenLinkNight this Thursday, every 2 weeks for those who want to contribute any poems of their choice ~
Yes I know, I thanked you for it!
Just a suggestion Grace, not a criticism ^_^
I think leaving that to the prompter is fine… But one of the purposes of having a set of picture or even one is to see what kind of ideas can come from the same picture.
I understand-also that it is not something everyone will enjoy. But rules are rules.
It’s cool you have the one day where every style is welcome.
Prompt or not a prompt that’s the question 🙂
Something for everyone. ^_^
Mine was just a suggestion. My only issue is with this deleting and public commenting. It hurts to see it, even if it isn’t me. Sometimes someone is new and didn’t even realize they missed a step. Then they feel unwelcome.
I understand, but we try to just point out and give another option. When I got that point early on I just modified and made it fit… Happened once or twice. But every one are different.
Yes I’ve seen you do it, and you tend to be gentle about it. Thank you for replying. I hope you have a great evening
When the person comments on my poem I get their email and can email them. This is only possible with WordPress. Some poets post but do not visit others. Their blogs are the only place where I can leave a message.
As I said to Mary, what’s the rationale behind having to use someone else’s photo prompt? Why so strict?
Magpie Tales (The Mag) does this each week, as well, except with one photo, or one piece of artwork…they just don’t restrict the form of poetry or prose used. Do you take issue with their philosophy, as well? I am honestly asking. I don’t do drama, so please know I am not trying to start a debate. Just seeking to understand your issue with the photo prompts.
To follow up on my previous comment: a photo can still be posted for those that wants the inspiration, but others that prefer their own should surely be allowed? As I said, as long as the haibun form is followed on Haibun Mondays?
Anyone is free, of course, to write a haibun of any kind on their own blog. If someone doesn’t care to write for the specific dVerse prompt, that is fine. No one is required to link. But for Haibun Monday we have particular rules. In this case, one of the photos had to be used for inspiration.
What is the rationale behind it? Why so strict?
You are most welcome to post your unprompted haibun on Open Link (join us this Thursday), which is every two weeks if you would like. Poetics, Haibun Monday, Meeting the Bar, and our newest prompt the Quadrille all have criteria. But Open Link is open to ALL poetry. It comes around every two weeks.
I’ve looked at Poetics, Meeting the Bar and the Quadrille. The last mentioned was the only one that has one working with, in this case, a word ‘dance’, the meaning of quadrille, so fair enough, writing to a specific form which is 44 words. The others do have a theme, writing to one’s favourite poet, or a theme ie eco poetry, but not to a specific photo which leaves wider options for participants to work with. I’m sure it’s not unreasonable?
If you look into our archives, you will see that a number of older Poetics involved writing to an artist’s photos.
I see no issue by having restrictions. There are photo prompts, there are quote and word prompts.. I find it inspiring to see what kind of ideas a photo can spawn. Maybe we could use your art as a prompt for everyone at some point… 🙂
Actually trying to find a weak connection usually just make emphasis stronger in my opinion.
It’s just, as far as I know, writing haibun or haiku is a very subjective experience, and although one can successfully write to someone else’s photo, the personal experience, the growth into what haibun and haiku is about, the way of life, can best be done by working with one’s own.
That said, I’ll fit in where I think I can then. As to using one of my artworks as a prompt for people to write to – while it will be very interesting to see what different responses it will invoke, I will not be upset if people didn’t relate and chose a different artist’s work they can write to better.
No-one else entered this debate so I think the conversation is probably closed about this particular topic.
Just seeing this discussion. Might I partake here?
Just joined dVerse in mid-December and have learned a tremendous lot from participating in the haibun Mondays, writing in particular genre on Poetics night, and enjoying open links on Thursday. I’ve had corrections made in my form….didn’t quite get the rhyme scheme required by the form right, then added one too many lines, etc and have appreciated the corrections. Writing to photographic prompts is, for me, a great spur to my imagination — to step out of my frame of reference if you will. There are other sites to post haibuns, Found poetry, poems that are written from a list of words etc. There’s so much to choose from in the thing called the blogging world. So, if someone is not “stirred” by a photographic prompt on this site, or another, then don’t participate in that one particular prompt. Mosey up to the bar another night! 🙂
I find the folks in dVerse helpful, creative, and it is amazing to me the time commitment given by those who tend bar (provide the photographic prompts) etc.
For me….it’s a huge thank you for this very clever site!
I only wish there was a real pub where I truly could mosey up a tip a few with some of these folks! 🙂
Thank you, Lillian!
Thank you, Lillian! I appreciate your understanding, appreciation, and supportiveness! Yes, wouldn’t it be nice if there was a real pub? Ha, perhaps we could all join you in Bermuda?? Smiles!
ooooh yes….the national drink here is a Dark ‘n Stormy……….hopefully we will not have that kind of weather during our trip!
Lillian, I love this comment. 🙂 And I love your work. And I agree, the whole point is to stretch yourself, and write.
Just wanted to add there is an OpenLinkNight this Thursday, which I am hosting ~ Any poem is welcome ~
Ah yes, good reminder
I’ll be there, Grace. Am in Bermuda and somehow have gotten in to a 1 behind rhythm here. But since prompts etc are up for a week, I’ll in all likelihood get my Tuesday Poetics (today) up tomorrow and maybe, just maybe, I’ll be in step by Thursday! 🙂
Thank you, Lillian!
I thought I’d add: haibun and haiku is a response to the present moment, the lived experience, being present to a sense of wonder however ordinary it may be.
I think I’ll take my own advice and go for a walk and see if I can come up with something independent. 🙂
Pingback: Clearing the air–hopefully | Art and Life
Your bridge photo inspired my haibun, reminding me of a beloved bridge of my childhood — and then Abhra’s ‘Coming Back’ prompt got tangled in with it in my thoughts, as did the upcoming Poets United Midweek Motif: Identity.
Pingback: Reflections in Padua – Haibun – February 3, 2016 | Walking With Bastet in Prose
gabriela, I missed most of this conversation, and will re-read. Just want to say how beautiful your photos are…I could have written something for each one. Hope to make the rounds all tonight. Thank you.
You are welcome, Kathy! Thank you for your supporting words.
Some nice choices for inspiration, Gabriella. I’ll be back tonight to read others…can’t wait! 🙂