Fresh rivulets flow, or: Summertime shower

A haibun

Whenever my seven-year-old daughter complains that it’s hot in the summer, I like to remind her that Jerusalem is a desert city. “Welcome to the desert,” I wink.

Personally, I usually don’t bother complaining, but I still catch myself kvetching about the heat on occasion. Yesterday, trudging through the afternoon sun from her school to her swimming class, my left eye stinging with sweat, I muttered, “Ugh; it’s really, really hot.”

By the time we returned home after her lesson, I could smell my own stench.

fresh rivulets flow
bacteria washed away
sweet summer shower

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Go Dog Go Cafe’s Haibun Wednesday

• This week’s prompt is to write a haibun based upon ‘one of the five senses: sight, sound, smell, taste, and/or touch’.
• From Poetry.org:
  • In How to Haiku, Bruce Ross writes, “If a haiku is an insight into a moment of experience, a haibun is the story or narrative of how one came to have that experience.”

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Let’s write poetry together!

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

–Ben Harper (b. 1969)

Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!