Hello fellow poets and welcome back from our brief hiatus.
Björn here again as today we have the first haibun prompt of yet a year and yet a decade, and even if it is already almost a week since we started to write the year 2020, this new year is still mostly a blank page. It still has potential for greatness, as we have left the last year in the trash.
Along my journey
through this transitory world,
new year’s housecleaning– Matsuo Basho
For your haibun I would like you to write about beginnings, and even if:
“The beginning is always today.”
― Mary Shelley
There are those days which feels more like beginnings than others, and how endings are often followed by new beginnings, and how we sometimes need with a housecleaning to feel a beginning.
Season’s may end when another begins.
After a break work may resume again.
Every painting starts with a blank canvas.
So for today, I would like you to write a haibun about any beginning, it could be the start of a journey, a new year’s resolution, the planting of seeds or simply the dawn of yet another day.
Dawn at Isawa in the Kai province by
Katsushika Hokusai
Try to limit the prose of the prose of the haibun to no more than a few paragraphs, and let the haiku align to nature and season. For those new to haibun it is a form once created by Matsuo Basho where he combined the prose of describing his travel in Japan with haiku. When it is well done the prose and the haiku interact to create another depth or layer to the description. Therefore I think it is important not to let the haiku be a summary of the prose, but rather to complement the prose.
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Hello, and a wonderful Monday to you all, which for us in Sweden is the last holiday of Christmas. Tomorrow I will be back at work again.. so there will not be too much wine or beer for me.
Work restarts again! Ugh. Thank you for this prompt, Bjorn!
Happy 12th Night, Bjorn! We have taken down the decorations and had a vegetarian feast after the excesses of Christmas. Always a poignant day. Thank you for this lovely prompt, reminding me that every ending is also a beginning.
For some reason our end of Christmas is not until the 20th day… so we still have the Christmas decorations.
Hello Bjorn – Thanks for hosting. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! It’s good to be back.
A new beginning after the holidays.
Yes!
Hello Bjorn and All.
Sounds like your haibun could be about beginning the post-Christmas season, Bjorn. The weather is sunny and about 50F, where I pushed the bins out to the road with no coat and the sunshine took the chill away. A glass of pear Magners please if you’re pouring.
We pour Magners every day ,,, great way to start.
Cheers!
Hello, hello, and a very Happy New Year to you all! I have missed you all and apologise for going missing in action for so long. After a bit of a horrendous couple of years in the wilderness with zero writing inspiration, I hope to get motivated to write some new poetry again, so want to start taking part again in your prompts and links. It might be Wednesday by the time I get to write a haibun, but I look forward to reading yours in the meantime.
Hello… and so nice to see you back again… you have been missed. There will be two more prompts this week, but the haibun prompt is open for a week…
I was just about to ask!
Good evening everyone, a happy new Year and a happy Twelfth Night. Thank you for hosting Björn. I’m pleased to say that I am now over the chest infection and pretty much back to normal – it took long enough – and I’ve had my first day back at school listening to children read. I missed it. Sadly, this Thursday will be the third anniversary of my mother’s death, so I will retain a grey melancholy for a while longer. I’m looking forward to more spring shoots, flowers, catkins and the first blossoms.
I hope you pass the period of melancholy and so good to see you well from that infection… have a wonderful day with the children.
Thank you, Bjorn. Tomorrow is back to Bounce and Rhyme in the library – I’ve even tidied up my folder!
Great prompt, Bjorn. I’ve missed the dVerse prompts over the last couple of months. Life has just been crazy. I’m hoping to be able to participate more this year. My first thought for this haibun was to write about a new weekly prompt I’m doing on my own blog on Fridays (https://anotherfearlessyear.net/2020/01/03/paint-chip-poetry-prompts/). I just started it last Friday. But I think I want to go a bit deeper than that. I have a couple of ideas brewing. It really is a terrific prompt. New beginnings are the balm that heals old endings, I think. I’ll be back to link up my haibun later this week.
I look forward to your entry Linda… indeed, every ending is a the possibility of a new beginning.
Thanks for hosting Björn. The ending period of 2019 was rough on me, but I look toward hope in the time ahead.
I meant to link up last night with something I’ve written during the day not knowing the content of the Dverse link. Sheer serendipity. My internet connection is on the blink again. Apparently good signal is tied to the electricity supply which is a problem as well in sunny old South Africa these days. I’ll link and will read as many poets as I can. It may take a few days! It’s a fictional piece yet tied to a real situation.
Hello, everyone! Thank you for this apt prompt to kick-start a new decade. I hope everyone had a lovely and joyful holiday! Cheers to more poetry. ❤
Happy new year and happy continuation as we say here.
So good to fill a new year and decade with new beginnings. And I got a chance to begin again with trying my hand at Haibun. 🙂
Thank you for hosting here Björn and a very happy New Year to you and fellow dVerse poets! I’ve linked a new haibun and will swing by to read in a moment.
Happy New Year, All. Thank you for hosting, Björn. My Haibun is somewhat similar to yours. I’m late, as usual to the dVerse party. There’s a lot going on here.
I enjoyed submitting my response to this wonderful prompt. Thank you Bjorn for hosting it. A Happy 2020 to you.
Hello Björn! Such an appropriate topic for the first haibun of 2020. I just added my link today and have enjoyed reading some of the other submissions. Hope everyone is having a great start to 2020!