Anothers writers challenge for me to try: The Līgo Haībun Challenge ~ words to bring the world together.
It was suggested to me (thank you yerpirate ) that I give this one a try! And so I shall.
Each week a prompt word, phrase or image is used for the haībun challenge. This weeks word prompt is
“MELT”!
Haībun is Prosimetric writing. The haībun format here for the Līgo Haībun Challenge is as follows ~
A paragraph (more than one paragraph is fine, or just a few sentences) in prose form of either
- a descriptive passage , or excerpt from a story/or previously published post
- an explanation
- a tale
- a travelogue
- a news item
- a recipe
and
- the haiku to close
THE LIGO HAIBUN NORMALLY SHOULD BE 220 WORDS OR LESS – Images can be included.
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Dew on Spider Web – Penny L Howe, 2012
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Nature’s Balance
The flow is the balance.
She is a runner of life and knows the flow is the balance. Running through early morning golden meadows, hair streaming behind, her breathing is deep and even. Her essence is air, the flow is balanced. A runner’s secret, balance can create speed but speed is an effect not the cause.
On this morning the soles of her feet fleetingly touch upon damp morning dew on a spider web. Something occurs, an otherworldly melding of effect with cause. She runs on but the balance has changed. She is fleeter, running more swiftly, the blending of the web’s moisture and air melting elements together. Magic? She finds she can now run through time. Her yesterdays, todays and tomorrows, all-time!
The flow is the balance. The effect, the melding of time. Her essence, all-time. Now she runs through life, her life and all life. An amazing thing. No stopping her now. She runs on. The flow is the balance – of life.
*
As nature’s balance
Creates life’s flowing essence
So magic happens
.
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Thank you,
~ Penny
nightlake
February 14, 2013 at 4:38 pm
lovely:)
Sunshine
February 12, 2013 at 6:18 pm
to become like a flowing runner…balanced and so in tune to life all around. beautiful writing. <3
pennycoho
February 13, 2013 at 11:42 am
Thank you very much!
Sunshine
February 14, 2013 at 9:42 pm
you’re welcome, Penny.
Anne Schilde
February 12, 2013 at 9:22 am
Very nice. Morning is the best time for running. I like the traditional nature haiku.
pennycoho
February 12, 2013 at 10:27 pm
Thank you Anne. I agree with you. And thank you for the very lovely compliment. I love nature, and running so this is close to heart for me!
yerpirate
February 11, 2013 at 7:16 pm
Reblogged this on More Tea.
yerpirate
February 11, 2013 at 6:54 pm
Wonderful flow of words – really felt this almost personally as the theme of the role of nature in us is a big one for me, but also the one of movement. You made her barefoot as she ran, so she was really in touch with nature, that in turn was a nice touch. I like very much that you go further than the communal ‘appreciation of nature; mantra, and glide us through with her, to reach our senses. There is a real difference between ‘enjoying’ nature and feeling it’s rhythms on our senses. I like very much what you did here. Perfect as a haibun, I think.
pennycoho
February 11, 2013 at 10:35 pm
Thank you so very much. I have a deep abiding love of nature and really do feel the words I was writing. About all life actually!
charliezero1.wordpress.com
February 11, 2013 at 10:38 am
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
~Albert Einstein
Your gift and wisdom is surely appreciated in my heart and universe.
I have returned, and I will be posting my new blog today stay tune.
pennycoho
February 11, 2013 at 6:19 pm
Thank you Charlie!
charliezero1.wordpress.com
February 12, 2013 at 1:55 pm
You’re welcome
…check out my new blog: Our Virtue Smells like Jazz-Tamponshttp://charliezero1.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/our-virtue-smells-like-jazz-tampons/ I’d like to hear your inputs. 
pennycoho
February 12, 2013 at 10:30 pm
Be a little bit, I’m out of town right now but will try to catch up on reading when I return my friend!
charliezero1.wordpress.com
February 13, 2013 at 2:46 pm
okay…sounds cool.
LuAnn
February 11, 2013 at 10:37 am
I felt like I was running along with her Penny…excellent!
pennycoho
February 11, 2013 at 6:18 pm
Oh good LuAnn, I am so glad you liked it. Something a little different for me!
sarahpotterwrites
February 11, 2013 at 2:59 am
Wonderful forward momentum to those words which picked me up and carried me with them. Your writing is truly magical. I love it
pennycoho
February 11, 2013 at 6:15 pm
Thank you Sarah, I am extremely flattered and I thank you very much for your compliments.
Björn Rudberg (brudberg)
February 11, 2013 at 12:33 am
Wonderful flow of language and into the haiku, and the summing up in the last line is lovely.
pennycoho
February 11, 2013 at 6:13 pm
I thank you very sincerely for your compliments. Makes my day a little brighter!
muZer
February 11, 2013 at 12:19 am
This is an excellent haibun.. I liked how your started and ended with the same line and yet different.. And the haiku so wonderfully complimented your prose.
muZer
February 11, 2013 at 12:20 am
Sorry.. I meant.. how *you* started…
pennycoho
February 11, 2013 at 6:03 pm
Yes, lol, I understood that!
pennycoho
February 11, 2013 at 6:02 pm
Thank you for your generous comments, most definitely appreciated by me!
mj
February 10, 2013 at 8:15 pm
Great paragraph! And very well put together with the picture and the haiku…. go on, win this one… cheering for you.
pennycoho
February 10, 2013 at 10:01 pm
Thank you very much. Something different for me, I will admit. Fun to do however, and thanks again for the vote of confidence!
kz
February 10, 2013 at 7:48 pm
great imagery… i love the last line in your haiku.. so magic happens…it sums up everything perfectly ^^
pennycoho
February 10, 2013 at 7:51 pm
Thank you kz, thank you very much!
anelephantcant
February 10, 2013 at 5:44 pm
AnElephantCant contain his excitement
You know that he does really like you
This piece is just marvellous
Absolutely fabulous
And finished off with a quite brilliant Haiku
Roxi St. Clair
February 10, 2013 at 4:39 pm
((((applauding)))) woo hoo WTG Penny! You got my vote. Hope you win the challenge…. you truly deserve it
pennycoho
February 10, 2013 at 4:40 pm
Thanks Roxi, I was going to call this 50 shades of deep but didn’t think it would go over too well!
Roxi St. Clair
February 10, 2013 at 4:42 pm
I like both. What’s more important is what do you like? You write from the soul… got to be true to you, regardless of the audience.
pennycoho
February 11, 2013 at 6:37 pm
Thank you Roxi, I tend to not only be a closet writer when it comes to my own “style” of personal writing but also very cautious with presenting same to viewers. You’re right of course, be true to you! Again many thanks dear friend!
xx
Roxi St. Clair
February 11, 2013 at 6:39 pm
Oh I hear you about being a closet writer…. I’m still in that frame of mind and will likely always will be. But you… you have something that is of true value to others and no matter what you choose, it will be ‘just right.’
pennycoho
February 11, 2013 at 6:46 pm
Thank you Roxi, but I do wish you’d rethink your own work and being published! You’re writing is all the things you say mine is, I don’t expect you to agree with me but you can’t change how I feel about it!