Rest-stop (haibun)

CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI, Haibun, haiga, Haiku 1 Minute

She loved her road trips and spinning those wheels, playing her music and singing aloud with an open window. Truck stops were spread out in timely fashions almost as if fast food industries knew when you had to eat but more likely to gas up and pee.

Her fuel gauge told her she should stop soon; she sees a rest-stop with picnic tables surrounded by pine trees. The place is deserted and she sighs with relief.

hwy restop

highway rest-stop
scented pine and Camembert
make-believe terrace

© Tournesol ’15

Carpe Diem “Buying a cookie”

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A little bit about moi: I am a mom, a nana, a sister, a woman, a friend, a human being…a youth counsellor, Family Life Educator. I have been working in the helping profession for over 25 years and volunteered in various capacities from youths to seniors. Tournesol is my nom de plume for haiku and other Japanese form poetry here at Tournesoldansunjardin https://cheryllynnroberts.wordpress.com I hope you enjoy reading through my daily waka. I also have another blog "Stop the Stigma" where I may stand on my soapbox now and then and hope it will become a place to drop in and share or comment on issues important to you. In that vein this could be a great way to learn from each other. http://stigmahursteveryone.wordpress.com

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16 thoughts on “Rest-stop (haibun)”

  2. Interesting transition from past to present tense in your haibun.. I liked the feel, atmosphere, and your growing easiness in haibun, which is evident – is fitting you like glove. Your haiku says a lot about the power of imagination, and life’s luxuries being so simple

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    1. Thanks so much; I do enjoy haibun since I don’t have to “tell” too much if I do it’s on my other blog. I did love driving long distance many years ago.

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  3. I was thinking of your haibun, your writing as I had my coffee just now. I am re-learning haibun from pieces like this, how it is so much more poignant, personal to do a short piece, definitey with movement in it, travel. From you I am learning not to do these long pieces about some big issue, but a shorter, quieter, more personal piece, hopefully with travel involved. Quite sensual, too. Travel always is.

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    1. I used to write longer haibun before I started with CP and Chèvrefeuille’s exercises to write under 50 words was a good exercise for me to say it all in less and giving haiku more strength. I do however, have other areas on my other blog that I get on my soap box and as well on Stigmahurtseveryone so it is a good balance.

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