Welcome to the very first Haibun Thinking. A weekly writing challenge to create verse, prose and haiku using prompts from all areas of art including – but not limited to – movies, songs, art, photography etc.
We are still after art and photos. Please email haibunchallenge@gmail.com if you have any that you want to submit.
Please choose your prompt from below and then add your link to the creature so others can also read your posts. Information about the Haibun is below the prompts
Thank you to Anja of Oh Pithy Me for the Haibun Thinking logo.
Photo Prompt
Film / Celebrity Prompt
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
– Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
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If you want to know what a Haibun is, take a look at the ABOUT page, and as this is the first one, I will paste here what is written there.
Haibun is a Japanese literary form that combines one or more paragraphs of your written narrative (prose) with a concentrated (short) poem – the haiku. Hai stands for haiku, bun stands for prose.
The haibun and/or the haiku present a relationship between the nature of the human experience and ‘nature’ (the natural order of life).
Haiku is Japanese poetry, usually containing seventeen onji (Japanese sound symbols). Most haiku consist of three unrhymed lines of seventeen or fewer syllables, with the middle line longest, (today’s poets use a variety of line lengths and arrangements).
In the Japanese language the typical haiku has seventeen “sounds” arranged five, seven, and five.
Philosophy behind the haiku: Usually there is a word or phrase that “targets” or identifies the nature of the experience, and another word or words that give a spoken “punctuation” marking a “pause for thought” or giving emphasis to the whole.
© Penny Howe 2013
Haibun Thinking 
Reblogged this on A Mixed Bag and commented:
A new writing challenge has started today
Reblogged this on idealisticrebel and commented:
For those who might be interested.
Thanks Barbara
Reblogged this on Oh Pithy Me and commented:
A new haibun writing challenge has started today! If you love haibun, please come join us. If you have never attempted one then still come over and give it a shot. If you have any questions I will help as much as I can. 🙂
Yay 🙂 Thanks Anja
Reblogged this on Morpethroad.
Thanks for spreading the word
Well if we all put it on our blogs more people will see it. It will build each week Al. Word will spread.
Yes it will. Hopefully quickly 🙂
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Thanks for sharing Nia
Dear Al, I did something, but I am not sure everything is right and understood well… If not, please sorry for this. But this is amazing photograph and amazing idea just inspired me. Thank you, love, nia
http://poetryandphotography.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/haibun-thinking/
I think your haiku is fantastic Nia. I loved it.
Thank you dear Al, 🙂 Love, nia
🙂
Glad to join in – as I do…I post the link to the site in my contributed piece. I hope you get some visitors from that.
I write about what is happening, well sometimes… and today it is the weather. Might have to break out my snow-blower! Brrr.
lol Thank you Jules. I appreciate you joining in
I still don’t know what I am supposed to do…
I’m not sure if I’ve linked this right, I couldn’t open the linky thing. This is the link to my page http://helenmidgley.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/haibun-thinking-challenge-reflection/
My like has now been erased three times!!!
I will look into it in the morning. I think they need to fix that
All my likes are disappearing!! On everything
Reblogged this on Jeremy's Daily Challenge.
Where do we post the Haibun’s?
If you post them onto your own blog, and link back here as well as posting the link into the InLinkz by clicking on the blue creature near the top
Thanks Al…not sure the In Linkz is working..just takes me to a lot of html code widgets rather than to a spot I can add my post as per Ligo Challenge.
Click on the blue image above the code link. That’s the bit for adding them
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Wasn’t there before…good now
Cool Thanks Paul
This is a great initiative by the three of you. Good luck 🙂 What is the last date for submision
Thanks Padmini. The new one starts on Tuesday 28th