"Today, we’d like to challenge you specifically to write a haibun that takes in the natural landscape of the place you live."
A haibun is a poem that combines a prose poem and haiku. If you haven't cared for my previous poems, today's will be different so it's up to you whether that's a good or a bad thing. Late, but just on time in central time!
For sale: Ranch style home on large wooded lot. Neighborhood built in the seventies. Well established trees. Live oak and cedar elm; tower high above. This was the yard where children played and grew. Now overgrown; green berries growing on thorny vines. This is the yard where the family pets were buried. Here is the creek with the dead snake that made girls run down the road back home. Here is the yard where friends lay on a trampoline and watched a family of skunks saunter down the creek. Here is the barbed wire that snagged clothes. Here is the cow pasture where the youngest girl explored on her own. Here is the hidden pond, a magical place far down on the creek. Here finally, is a spring that still flows over algae growing on concrete.
Nature and farmland
Now developed give way to
Tight suburbia
Keep on writing; we are almost half-way!
-Sharon
Update 4/17/2018 - I was messing around with my blog and noticed this post was all highlighted in white. It's a weird formatting thing that happens when I've copied and pasted text from somewhere (the quoted text from the NaPo prompt). Ugh. But it's a deeper formatting issue . . . I didn't catch it til now; so I just fixed it. Too bad, because I had liked this poem. Ugh. Oh well.
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