Happy Poetry Friday, and happy New Year to you! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.)
I always feel like I’m at confession when it’s time for a Poetry Sisters post. This month is no different. I don’t like haibun. In fact, if you’ve posted them in the past, I’ve probably read just the haiku and skipped the prose.
Okay, now you know my dirty secret!
But, our assignment this month was haibun, so I had to give it a try. I’m picking back up my Ireland memories from October. The whole reason we went to Northern Ireland (for just one full day) was to see the Giant’s Causeway, an amazing natural phenomenon. But it meant we had to take a bus tour–NOT our preferred way to explore. It was fine overall, and so worth doing. But a bit of silence would’ve been welcome ;>)
Here’s my draft, along with a few pics from the tour.
The Poetry Sisters are going to keep writing together in 2025 (yay!), and we hope you’ll join in whenever you’re able. However, we haven’t made our schedule yet. We’ll try to share by mid-month whatever our challenge is for January!
Meanwhile, check out the haibun efforts of…
Liz
Sara
Tanita
Tricia
Mary Lee
Click here to see all our previous Poetry Princesses collaborations.
And our Poetry Friday host for the final week of 2024 is the multi-talented Michelle Kogan! Make sure to see what she’s offering up this week and check out the Roundup!
7 Responses
Terrific poem Laura, you’ve captured the scene with oodles of sensory nature descriptions which build a haibun— and your pics on the side add to it! My haibun took another turn, clouded by events of the impending new year… Thanks!
BRILLIANT final line of your haiku. Maybe you don’t like haibun, but you nailed this one.
Great! Love the line about finally getting to the hexagonal pillars! Your need and desires for silence matches mine, Laura. Although, we did have some on our Irish tours via charter bus. We only took two over our 24 day stay snd both drivers were outstanding. No one else talked and on the was back one driver was silence for the two hour ride.
Maybe I’ll write about silence this week. Thanks for the inspiration.
I like haibun but have only written one when we visited Acadia National Park.
“Silence is forbidden.” Agony!! But I am glad you went and glad you shared it with us here. And I kind of love that you jump straight to the haiku. 🙂 xo
Ha ha ha — your confession made me laugh, Laura. Poetic honestly above all! But I gotta say, you know how to WRITE a haibun even if you don’t like them. The prose and poetry go perfectly together and, like Mary Lee, that final line just lands perfectly for me…
Ha! Your honesty makes this poem sing. And your details. Maybe all hai-bun “crop out the world” so we can see it more clearly. Well done.
Laura, so much information in so few words. I felt like I was there with you. I have never visited Ireland, and I had not heard of famine cottages. Of course, your poem sent me looking for even more information. Someday I would love to visit Ireland. Until then, I enjoy traveling there with you through your poetry!