The woman rises early and makes her way out to the porch to wait for the light and to invite the silence in. Eyes closed, she descends the staircase to her internal spring, near her heart. Drinking just enough to sate the fierce longing, she lets go of bitterness and observes as a gusting breeze sweeps it away. She cries out when she opens her eyes. The sun, tilting toward the south, filters its light through the trees , dappling an anemone with kisses. A bee passes by, stopping long enough to graze at the pink flower’s pollen feast. The shy little flower, in a shudder of love, suddenly showers the bee with pollen. The woman, training her eyes on the vision before her, tucks a few pieces of pink, a bit of bee and the sunlight into her heart to carry with her during the day. A moment later, she hears a sound in the kitchen. She moves inside and finds her mate making a pot of strong morning tea. Without making a sound she becomes, for just a moment, the sunlight, the bee and the anemone.

For Carpe Diem ‘ the conversation’
For The Sunday Whirl ‘Wordle #123’
For Poets United ‘Poetry Pantry’
Wonderful haibun… Ah! Lovely, serene… beautiful.
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Lovely moment described in story and captured in haiku!
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WOW! Wabi … what can I say? This is a wonderfully composed haibun with an awesome haiku. Silent conversation between lovers … well done … a masterpiece.
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This one is great … I would like to use it, with your permission of course, for one of our coming up Tan Renga Challenges. Please let me know if that’s OK.
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That would be wonderful, Kristjaan. I look forward to seeing what lines other poets will add to my poem! Thank you.
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Like x 2. 🙂
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This is awesome haibun.
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I especially loved the last line, the lightness of oneness.
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Beautiful haibun Wabi! A whiff of freshness from among the many! Great!
Hank
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What a beautiful picture you painted with your words.
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Delicate, elegant and lovely – truly lovely. 🙂
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nice…i like that last line of the first part….becoming the sun light, the bee…..and in a kiss there are many words…smiles.
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A love song for morning.
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What a beautiful poem of early morning! I feel at peace. Loved the haiku part of the haibun….so tender and loving.
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Mornings like that are so rare…
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She becomes all three—sunlight, bee, anemone—because she has drunk from the internal (and, I’m thinking, eternal) spring. This is lovely, Wabi.
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One and the same, I believe.
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“she becomes, for just a moment, the sunlight, the bee and the anemone”
very sweet and so quietly intense
see my #4 today
Cheers!
JzB
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OMG….so very stunning…
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Oh my, that sent shivers up my spine, Wabi. You created a beautiful and gentle scene, and ended it perfectly. I love the haibun form.
Pamela
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Beautiful – especially the ending, condensing the whole.
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what a bright end 🙂
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This is so lovely – what a wonderful way to start the day!
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WOW! This is so incredibly beautiful!
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deeply contemplative, a lovely haibun/haiga; a nice Sunday to you
much love…
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Very sweet.
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A gorgeous poem, hilighting Mother Nature and life’s small joys.
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Love this I agree and I live there at sunrise. Lucky me!
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Oh, this is just gorgeous, through and through! Words and image, perfectly paired 🙂
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This is beautiful – so tender and sensuous. And the haiku in the end…spot on.
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Like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon, the haiku that completes this is as beautiful and the prose that sets it up! Great use of form, Wabi Sabi!
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picturesque, so light and yet one can feel “a shudder of love.”
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The ending is surprisingly good.
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A special moment captured beautifully.
http://miskmask.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/when-luck-blows-through-a-deck-of-cards/
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A beautiful moment, Wabi. So in tune with nature’s splendour.
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How very beautiful. This is perfect for a morning read, a meditative moment.
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[…] Today, I am delighted to participate in the prompt at Carpe Diem for a very personal reason. Kris is featuring my poem, which I posted a few weeks ago. The original post is here : Many Conversations A Haibun/Haiga […]
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A perfect tale of mindfulness x absolute perfection in prose and haiku x
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… ah yes, I remember this … 🙂
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[…] This beautiful haiku is written by Wabi Sabi; complimenting it are my two seven-syllable lines, completing the […]
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Wonderful… I’m glad for the Tan Renga that made me come back and read…. and I love the anemones… they look like the one in our garden right now.
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Isn’t this Lovely!
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