Carpe Diem Special #187 Georgia's 3rd, a haibun "idyllic spring"

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

It's my pleasure to bring to you Georgia's 3rd CD-Special. We have already seen how gifted she is and she also writes wonderful haibun. A haibun, in which prose and poetry are entwined, is a short story that ends mostly with a haiku, sometimes there are also haiku embedded in the haibun as for example in our monthly theme "Narrow Road" that famous haibun by Basho (1644-1694).

For this CD-Special I have selected a haibun which Georgia (a.k.a. Bastet) wrote in December 2014. Have fun reading it and let the haibun inspire you.


IDYLLIC SPRING

Grassy steps led to an over-grown garden. Looking down Janice wondered who had built the walls and indeed, when those stony steps had last been used. The garden full of wild flowers was weed-choked but the sun filtered down invitingly. She began to descend, half-way down the stairs she stopped surprised.

Piercing the silence, a blood-curdling howl. Robin red-breast rises, screeching, into the sky.

She looked down the remaining stairs and saw a large brindled cat stride out from the undergrowth. Tail swishing she realized the hunter had lost his prey.

idyllic spring
among the wildflowers
the hunt continues

© G.s.k. ‘14

With this haibun went a photo by Bjorn Rudberg

Grassy Steps photo © Bjorn Rudberg

Sorry for being late with publishing.

This CD-Special is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until December 20th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our next episode later on today.

Share your inspired haiku, tanka, haibun or other Japanese poetry form with us all.

1.	Rheumatologe	6.	Carol Campbell	11.	ladyleemanila
2.	opie houston	7.	jazzytower	12.	B i r g i t t a
3.	Candy	8.	Tournesol	13.	afrikuland
4.	Bastet	9.	hamish
5.	petra domina	10.	Bastet 2

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