#haibun - Verses and Hues

23 Jan

Haibun: Riveting Nature

The grandeur of nature is beyond imagination and words, inspiring creativity since ages. When three mystical forces of nature- Sun, clouds and mountains, create coherence, their beauty appears magical and enthralling. As the varied hues of amber sprinkled by...

#clouds, #haibun, #hills, #life, #micropoetry, #nature, #serenity, #tanka, #thoughts

12 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 12: Home Sweet Home

The challenge of NaPoWriMo for today is to specifically write a haibun that takes in the natural landscape of the place you live. It may be the high sierra, dusty plains, lush rainforest, or a suburbia of tiny, identical...

#beauty, #clouds, #feelings, #flora, #haibun, #haiku, #home, #house, #life, #napo, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #NaPoWriMo2018, #natural, #nature, #neighborhood, #park, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #rain, #residence, #sun, #sweet, #thoughts, #vicinity, #words

28 Nov

Haibun: The Writing Therapy

Toni is hosting Haibun Mondays at dVerse. She wants us to write about our plans for our writing in a haibun. Writing is therapeutic for me. It pulls me out of the clutches of darkness where I wander...

#3lines, #challenges, #depression, #dVerse, #failure, #game, #haibun, #haiku, #haiku horizons, #inspiration, #introspection, #life, #micropoetry, #perception, #plans, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #puzzle, #struggles, #success, #therapy, #thoughts, #words, #writing

19 Jun

Haibun: Clouds

The sky seemed captivating, adorned with the glitterati of stars like a bride dressed in an impeccably sparkling outfit. I had been admiring the blue for hours and was eager to continue my adoration for eternity. The moving...

#5lines, #clouds, #Colleen’s Weekly, #compassion, #enshroud, #grit, #haibun, #harmony, #inspiration, #introspection, #lessons, #life, #life’s lessons, #micropoetry, #mist, #nature, #perseverance, #poetrychallenge, #sky, #smoke, #sun, #tanka, #unison, #unity, #veil

19 May

Haibun: My dream to fly

My hands are trembling. My body quivers. But my eyes are focused at the birds soaring in the sky. I feel butterflies in my stomach as someone tightens the belts that have captivated my body. Dozens of thick ropes...

#5lines, #allure, #clouds, #Colleen’s Weekly, #dream, #experience, #float, #fly, #haibun, #horizon, #life, #micropoetry, #nature, #paragliding, #parasailing, #poetrychallenge, #power, #soar, #tanka, #wind

13 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 13: Haibun

The prompt for NaPoWriMo for today has not yet been uploaded so I followed the prompt shared by Colleen for her Weekly Poetry Challenge #28 which requires words “hard” & “soft” or their synonyms to be used in a haiku, tanka...

#aqua, #enigma, #haibun, #haiku, #horizon, #micropoetry, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #nature, #ocean, #poetrychallenge, #sea, #water

01 Apr

Haibun: Peak

Today is the first day of NaPoWriMo 2017 and I have tried to write a new form called Haikun, keeping in line with the early bird prompt provided by NaPoWriMo (though I am not early :)). Haibun is a Japanese literary...

#everest, #fear, #haibun, #haiku, #mountains, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #nature, #peak, #poetrychallenge

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