THE HAIBUN GALLERY: 26th June 2025. Diana Webb - Guest Poet

host: Rupa Anand

mentor: Lorraine Haig editors on haikuKATHA: Shalini Pattabiraman, Vidya Shankar, Firdaus Parvez and Kala Ramesh

Guest Poet: Diana Webb

A Thursday Feature

26th June 2025

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THE HAIBUN GALLERY  June 2025 - Diana Webb

Prompt 4th week

PROMPTS for June 2025

Diana Webb

Beyond Wet

The rain fills the spaces between the houses. It hangs as a silken sheet and billows my sorrow .

Through it all the forsythia ablaze with yellow flowers, resplendent against the wet fence. Primroses have pushed through the mulch of bark. Heavy and damp, the daffodils are dancing.

sky on the road

the golden retriever

shaking rainbows 

Florence Heyhoe haikuKATHA, May 2023

Prompt

It is perhaps a cliche to say that without tears there can be no rainbows but in the above haibun those three words 'billows my sorrow ' show the truth in that saying so beautifully . The suffering of a person can cause the beauty of nature to shine extraordinarily brightly in relief and even to dance before one's eyes as that allusion at the end of the prose to Wordsworth's well known poem suggests. The sails of a person's ship which takes them through waves of darkness and pain can suddenly billow with the beauty of all the colours of the spectrum shaken out in the sudden joy and hope of rainbows. 

Write a haibun about how the miracles of nature have transformed a time of ills into a period of new epiphanies and joyful insights with the collaboration of the negativa with positiva becoming the via creativa culminating in the via transformativa. End with a haiku which not only transforms your paragraph of prose to a haibun but which shines out of the darkness as the touch of the magic wand which shows how transformation can occur.

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Once again, a beautiful prompt and challenge. Looking forward to your month. 

Thank you so much.

_kala

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Writers are invited to submit one unpublished haibun per submission window.

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