My first Haibun Monday – Equinox edition

/ boz bozeman

I’m learning the Haibun form, which combines prose and poetry. I like this very much, since prose is my first love.

The challenge is to write a post about the equinox. Here’s mine:

Fall fell on its birthday this year in Connecticut. A twenty-degree dip in temperature in one day, cool replacing the wisps of warmth of a day ago. As if it knew its time had come and did not wish to tarry.

The sun is blocked out by clouds, so it is a grey day that we get half of. It’s been too nice for a lot of leaves to fall in the heavy rain: the trees’ green belies this sudden steely Autumn.

Darkness will do for the other half of the equinox. It is flexing now, beginning to feel its length stretch out before it, a host of days to darken.

Still I will balance
Rotating, tilting, spinning
Cycling through it all

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15 thoughts on “My first Haibun Monday – Equinox edition”

  5. “sudden steely Autumn” You can certainly say that… 20 degrees is a lot! Love how you used that picturesque phrase – it feels like the still green leaves did not know what hit them. Beautiful take on the prompt, that is a wonderful Haibun.

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