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Hello everyone! Grace here hosting for Haibun Monday!
In my part of the world, it is the summer season. How do you celebrate your summer? Do you go out for a road trip, have picnics in the park, or go swimming or playing in the water park, or have barbeque & cool drinks? We all like to keep cool with the summer heat. Woe to us if our AC is not working in the house or there is brown out at night!
Growing up, my favorite summer treat is halo-halo. This is a Filipino mixed tropical fruit dessert, with milk flavored shaved ice, topped with purple yam, leche flan and ice-cream. There are different variations, but always with the shaved ice to beat the heat. What is your favorite summer treat?
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Our theme for this week’s haibun is summer! Share with us a summer memory – from a summer love to coping up with the summer heat. Or how about a summer comedy, tragedy or disaster?
Being that this is Haibun Monday, please write a haibun based on the prompt, with 1 to 2 tight paragraphs, ending with a seasonal haiku. Don’t forget to visit and comment on others poetry, especially to those who have visited you.
What to do after you have written:
- Post your haibun to your blog
- Add a link (direct URL address) of your poem via the ‘Mr Linky’ below
- Add the link for the dVerse posting so others can find their way here
- Read and comment on other people’s work to let them know it’s being read
- Share via your favorite social media platforms
- Most importantly, have fun!
See you at the poetry trail ~ Grace
Happy Haibun Monday everyone! It is summer here with some thunderstorms, yikes. Anyway, there are loads of cool drinks and ice cream at the bar for you to enjoy. Hope you are having a good day or night !
I’m still writing mine… happy Monday everyone. This is the last week before our summer break, so please keep in mind to give it your best.
Looking forward to it Bjorn ~ Yes, we are going for our 2 week summer break after this week~
Happy Haibun Monday, Grace and Bjorn! And to everyone else, of course! Those halo-halos look scrumptious, Grace – well, what I can see of them. Since starting the exam marking I have contracted an eye infection. The doctor isn’t sure whether it’s been exacerbated by the close screen work or is a result of it. Either way, the mediation is ointment, which is horrible as it stings and blurs my sight. So I’ll be posting but not doing much reading today. I just hope it improves soon. I am, however, looking forward to reading as much as possible – can’t wait to see the range of haibun!
Yikes on the eye infection Kim. Hope it improves soon as it can be annoying. Take a rest and leave the reading to us Kim.
Thank you, Grace.
Oh no…..take care of yourself, Kim. Not to worry about the reading…I was just finishing reading from our Thursday prompt today!
Thanks Lillian.
Oh I know how much your eyesight means.. take good care and rest your sight.
Thank you, Bjorn.
Hello everyone. I wasn’t going to write to this lovely prompt but then, I decided to. My favorite summer treat is anything that is cold and light!
Hi Toni! Yes that suits me too – cold and light!
Hello everyone! Thanks for hosting, Grace and oh my goodness, those halo-halos look delicious! I love the purple on top! Very hot here. I just gobbled down some icecream for a cool cold lunch! 🙂
Hi Lillian ~ I had some ice cream myself after my lunch ~ Hope its not too hot in your part of the world. Right now, its alternating hot and thunderstorms here.
Thanks for hosting Grace. I’m still jet lagged and discombobulated but managed a poem.
Woohoo Paul in the house ! Thanks for joining us ~
Welcome back, Paul! 🙂
I will be along the trail to read and comment later. This is such a lovely prompt. Thank you for hosting Grace! I had a huge salad and a peach granite for dessert. yummy
Yummy ! Take care Toni ~
So nice to see you here at dVerse, Toni. Thinking of you…:)
Hi Lillian! It’s great to be sorta back… 🙂
I will be off to the dental office and will be back by dinner time. Hope to see more haibun linked up by then. Feel free to grab some ice cream treats in our fridge, smiles!
A wonderful prompt Grace. Posted mine and will be visiting in the morning. I am sleepy now 🙂
Thank you for joining us Sumana!
Oh, my, that looks and sounds delicious! My mouth is watering! I feel like having only ice-cream or cold drinks all summer long.
Yes, for ice cream and cold drinks all summer long ~
Summertime and the living is easy. Gin and elderflower tonic is called for, I think, with lots of ice…
Lots of ice coming up Sarah!
Welcome to the first full week of summer, y’all! I’m drinking sangria with lots of frozen fruit! Looking forward to the reading 🙂
Sangria with lots of frozen fruit is delicious ~ Cheers to summer Jilly!
I like this prompt! I’m afraid I went contemporary with it. Maybe after a few I’ll get nostalgic and write a better one. Barkeep, I believe I’ll have a Summer Shade!
With lots of ice Charley! Thanks for joining the fun~
summer and a weeks rain in a day – Been on the Pina Coladas this week but it was other things that took time from my haibun but have persevered no matter how late!
So–late to the party. It’s been a busy few weeks. I’m enjoying everyone’s treats. I’d love a glass of Sangria, and then perhaps try one of Grace’s treats!
Arriving late to one of my favorite prompts. Thanks for hosting, Grace. I would love one of those gorgeous-looking halo-halo’s, if you please. My favorite summer treat is pretty simple: fruit that is allowed to ripen on the tree. Something hard to find these days unless you grow it yourself.