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Today I would like you to consider grey as a subject for your haibun.
Grey can be everything between black and white, all the possibilities of compromise and harmony. Solution
Grey is also absence of color an absence of joy. Fifty shades of misery
Grey is winter, whiteout, mist and rain. It could be the swelling of the sea. Maybe you recall a moment sitting by a lake an overshadowed day in February.
Grey is ink-wash, old pewter and the haircolor of old age, it’s gneiss and granite.
Grey can be the promise of soil to seed.
As you see grey can be a lot of things, and today I would like you to bring grey into a personal (non-fictional) piece of prose. Add to that a haiku (with season and nature). Please try to limit your prose to no more than 200 words.
When you have written your haibun, please link up below, read and comment and have fun. The prompt is open the whole week so remember to return, read and comment many times.
dVerse 
Hello, give me your best grey… It fits so well with the winter we have today.
Hello Bjorn! It just so happens I am wearing grey today, and the weather was grey too!
I do like grey… somehow it’s restful
They is beautiful. Today it is misty. Lovely prompt.
Glad you think so… somehow mist can turn your thoughts to other things… it can be so restful
Yes and actually, it can be exciting as well.
Grey. I cannot control my tablet spell check sometimes.
gray can be easy on the eyes, yet walking around my property, then coming in and looking out the window, the gray makes it hard to remember how good today is
Maybe grey is what we project on it… any possibility
Hi Björn! A good prompt. I think I gAve it my best gray. Looking forward to reading the other offerings.
Glad you liked the prompt
Usually I try to do a reframe on the prompt, come at it from an unexpected angle, but today has been greyer than grey.
There are those days… but maybe it’s a good day to reflect.
I love the winter colors. Thanks for hosting, Bjorn!
There is a softness of winter that can be quite restful
Had trouble posting today cuz I never know what day it is and in this case what month it is.
Monday is the greyest day and February is the greyest montg
Great prompt- thank you Bjorn.
Thank you
It’s VERY grey here today….rainy and drab….but I do find grey to be comforting, a place to retreat from extremes. A very interesting topic for the haibun and I’ve always liked “Live”. That was a treat. 🙂
February is grey
He’s been on my mind of late…
Evening, Poets! Thanks, Bjorn, for this intriguing prompt. Company and computer problems kept me from posting today. I hope to catch up tomorrow. By the way, can anyone recommend a particular model of laptop—one good for web browsing and MS Office productivity, mainly? 😀
I recently bought a Lenovo seemed to be best value for money
Opted for something sweet to paint the grey red! 😉 Thank you for this!
That’s one good thing with grey – it’s good to color
I cannot agree more!
Hi Bjorn, thanks for the prompt – look forward to reading everyone’s responses. Here, (east coast Australia) we had the first grey morning in ages, so that helped.
So fall is coming slowly for you?
It’s in the morning air and the leaves are just losing their gloss, but the ocean is still 22 degrees 🙂
I will soon head off for office and will try to sneak in a bit of reading.. I will be back tonight anyway
Charming prompt,,,lots to think about..this would be my maiden post..cheers
Welcome to dVerse
cheers..just posted
Good morning…happy to join in.
Happy to have you
Very appropriate prompt for the state of the world.
Indeed… it can be… but grey might be better than black
That’s true. Although somehow grey seems more in need of aid and comfort.
Finally posting. And on my wife’s old laptop, slightly ahead of the curve of obsolescence! 🙂
Ha… sometimes we have to take desperate measures… glad it worked.
Indeed, Bjorn. So far, so good. My newly ordered Acer may arrive tomorrow. 🙂
I’m finally getting mine up, too. Wonderful prompt. It was grey, foggy morning here, but I went for a summer memory. 🙂
I think when it’s grayest… we see the colorful memories best.
That may be true.
Hi. Thanks for the colorful prompt. I’m in. (First ever haibun, spellcheck wants to make it a habit)
Maybe from now you will get into a haibun habit.
Exactly one week from recent school shooting, I find words to process the societal chaos…prompted by “grey”.
I find grey can mean so much… maybe it’s because it represents some kind of emptiness you can fill with anything…