A haibun
As a teenager, I would make the rounds with my snow shovel after heavy snowfalls in suburban New Jersey, offering my not at all highly esteemed driveway shoveling services. By my standards, the money was great. I always looked forward to winter.
Then, in college, I encountered Cleveland, Ohio winters, which can be truly treacherous. Getting to class through the ice-crusted snow was nearly impossible – I quickly learned to fear the freezing rains that fell on the tail ends of heavy blizzards.
resplendent sparkles
overlay broken asphalt
invisible ice
Go Dog Go Cafe’s Haibun Wednesday
- This week’s prompt is to write a haibun inspired by the word ‘crack(s)’.
- 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.”
Twiglets #290
Moonwashed Weekly Challenge
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)
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Ha. You’ve not lived in Syracuse.
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Well done David and always enjoy hearing a bit more of your story 🌹
🤗 😘 Karima 🤗 😘
I’ll take the winter any day over a nasty heatwave soft boiling you in your home.
🥵 Michaël 🥵 ~ I feel you
This haibun made me chuckle. Lake effect snow is my life for far too many months out of the year! That freezing rain on top of the snow can really be treacherous! Beautiful when a single moment of sun hits it but mostly it is a killer (of cars, backs, boots with heels, and tree branches)…
🥶 Muri 🥶
Freezing rain is the worst! I’ve lived through my fair share of blizzards in Wisconsin and Northern Michigan; I think I’m due for a tropical vacation. 😀
🏖 Sarah 🏖 ~ I agree!
Did some Chicago winters. A California law school class mate declared that he couldn’t stand the “friction.” I thought that was a good word for it. Coats. Boots. Walking slow. The sting of snow and sleet and wind. Friction indeed.
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We don’t have snow and ice – I’m so grateful, I would find winter very gloomy and depressing I think.
Kate, it can be a lot of fun too, in its defense 😀
Of course – but we are in the middle of a freezing cold winter here and adding in complications like icy roads doesn’t sound very enticing – however in our stinking hot summer I could very easily be enticed by snowball fights and skiing and the whole winter wonderland feel. But right now it sounds awful – there is a howling wind outside and I’ve got the fireplace stoked 😊
I moved to Marlton, NJ from Hollywood, FL in 1996 – the year of the 1996 Blizzard. I seemed to be the only that liked it! lol. We get a little snow where I live now and I don’t mind it as long as I don’t have to drive in it. ❄️ ☃️
There were blizzards in NJ sometimes, but Cleveland winters were definitely harsher! And driving in it is really scary!
Let it snow… 🤍☃️❄💙
🌨 Filipa 🌨
I lived in Ohio for 20 years and Michigan before and after. In all its sparkling splendor, winter has a mind of its own!
❄️ Annette ❄️
Brrr! I love snow – on pictures.
Likewise!
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I was born in a country where it rarely snows. In Lisbon…never. I’ve lived four years in two Canary islands and beach was my playground (we can swim the whole year). I need the ☀️ to be happy. Strangely, I met my husband in the French Alps, on a cold and snowy evening. Life at its best!
📷 Dolly 📷
My cousin lives in Deptford…
🥶 Christine 🥶
Not sure about those little blue faces….
they’re “cold” faces 😉
I was just being silly!