Carpe Diem: Stars

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Haibun, Michael Dylan Welch, romance, stars

Done for Carpe Diem. We are to use Michael Dylan Welch’s haiku below to write a haibun of 75 words including a haiku.

one …

together we count

the falling stars

© Michael Dylan Welch

Haibun – Stars

Something about the night had me mesmerised. Perhaps it was the breeze, perfumed with scents of jasmine drifting from his garden next door. Or the stars sparkling in the velvet sky; one moment a few exploded in fireworks, blazing. One moment they fizzled into oblivion. I willed him to come out and be part of this magic.

Minutes later he was behind me on the lawn.

shooting stars
we find each other
in the magic

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu

20/10/15

Ligo Haibun Challenge ~ Everest

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Everest, Haibun, love story

This week’s  Ligo Haibun has two prompt photos courtesy of Padmini (Nightlake) and Penny. My choice is below:

Everest

She stood by the window gazing into the cloudy skies, seeking peace. Funny, but she had met Cyril on a day like this. The clouds were angry and had refused to ease up a little for sunshine to peek through. And she had thought that his dark looks matched the weather. A dark cloud now settled in her heart and only he could lift it.

She was so lost in thought that she did not hear him approach. He startled her with his touch on her shoulders. Ever so lightly but electric. She turned, and he smiled. She gasped. That smile and his sinful good looks always did that to her.

‘My parents are waiting for us, sweetest.’ He read the fear in her eyes. Pulling her  gently away from the window, he kissed her.  ‘I love you, Madeline.’

‘I love you too.’ she whispered.

‘They approve of you, my dear. They understand that I love the gardener’s daughter.’

Surprised, her eyes wandered past his royal head to the clouds. To her amazement, the skies had effortlessly dispelled its gloom and the brightness now tugged at her heart.

daughter of the soil

I’ll jump over Everest

for you are my queen

Ligo Haibun Challenge – Eve

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betrayal, Eve, Haibun

Today, I am joining the Ligo Haibun Challenge hosted by Managua of Cabin Fever. This is an excellent writing challenge that offers writers an opportunity to improve and hone their written skills. I encourage you to give this one a try for after following the writing trail for a while now, I have come to believe that it is worth the try.  For me also, this challenge offers me the opportunity to develop further love of fiction and haiku combined 🙂

The judges of this challenge, Penny included, look at originality, style, emotional resonance, lexical balance, relationship between haiku and prose and select an entry to award the prestigious Circle of Appreciation every week.

The haībun format  is as follows:

• A paragraph (more than one paragraph is fine, or just a few sentences) in prose form and
• the haiku/collection of haiku related to the text to close. The haiku should be as authentic as possible, with therefore no syllable count, no capitals or full stop, all ideally making 220 word max, all-inclusive
• each week there is a choice of two prompt words or phrases, or two visuals. Please choose one for our theme
• wear the Ligo badge with pride on your blog! And pin the Circle of Appreciation to your blog too if it is in the haibun Honourably Mentioned in Despatches each week!
• prizes are given on sporadic occasions – earrings, scarves etc..
• submit a haibun for Haibun Today online magazine by going here

  So, here we go: I hope you find this enjoyable 🙂

Apples have an exquisite enticing quality. The roundness give the impression of succulent juiciness and the redness means only one thing; allure. Together they give the illusion of irresistible sex. Now, would Adam have had sex with Eve if the snake had not charmed and deceived her with the apple?  What if the snake had sex with Eve? Blasphemous thoughts, I know, but sometimes I simply wonder.

Looking back now, I realised the signs had been there all along but I was blind. You see, my sister loved the creepy slithering things to a fault. And I found that odd.  

The day we found a snake moving silently down the tree in our backyard garden, the glitter in her eyes had unnerved me so. ‘Do you have a destiny with these things?’ I had asked her in a rather shaky voice. She made no answer then but she had prevented the garden boy from killing it and we had watched as it crawled away, disappearing into the hedges. That night, my dreams were of scorpions, snakes and crabs and I had woken up shivering.

From then on I started to fear her, irrational, maybe. But too late, I noticed the attraction between my sister and my fiance.

 

saccharine smile so bright

she slithers ever suggestively

a stab in my heart