This week there are two prompts for the Līgo Haibun Challenge:
Water or Order.
And it came to me – maybe not so much in order at once but step by step…
It was snowing as I left early this morning. Slowly, with the plume alike snowflakes – not dancing playfully but almost certain about where they were supposed to land and going for it. A bit surreal with pitch blackness all around, smoothened by something so white and pure. A hope, a promise that there’ s always light in the end of every tunnel.
wonderland
from caresses of snowflakes
my heart melts
For better or worse, that was not about to last. I was dragged back into another reality the moment I hit the road. Away from the fluffy dream-land into the late autumn day with heavy clouds of that dirty lead grey color. Growing, impatient to burst, yet constantly pushed around by indomitable wind until it finally happened. The inevitable – raindrops crushing against the windshield one after another. Creating the mysterious patterns that were supposed to lull my thoughts again before the pace was changed. Gaining power, they seemed eager to break through the glass, angrily. If there was even a tiny chance they could, they would have. Especially after the rain had turned into the grains of hail. Like frozen teardrops one would like to hide but not knowing how and why, so they kept rolling…
An hour later on my way back home there it was – the culmination of the day. A double rainbow in the clear blue sky, the one that can make the toughest sceptics to believe in wonders. Even if only for a moment. And it crossed my mind there was something of a woman in all of this nature’ s almost desparate attempt to be noticed. Moody and capricious, craving for attention, continuing to fail but not giving up. A touch difficult, often unexpected and unexplainable, like all seasons taking their course at once, still able to surprise. In the best possible way.
After all it is the natural order of the world – sooner or later something good will follow something bad. Either we believe it or not.
one day
for winter to turn into spring
(un)natural order
Very well written… 🙂 🙂
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I couldn’t come up with something better than TAK! 🙂
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🙂
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Double rainbows are special. I’ve been lucky to see one in my ‘home’ town.
Be safe driving in the messy chaos of autumn. 🙂
Remember to post your link in the linky thing.
Posting my haibun shortly. Cheers. ~Jules
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Oh, I see they are not open yet. I just assume that because the prompt is up the link is open. I shall attempt to remember to add my link tomorrow. 🙂
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Thank you very much, Jules – it really came as a wonder and was appreciated! 🙂
Driving is a touch tricky as we are sliding from autumn into winter here and it hardly happens without the presence of “the black ice”. I am trying my best.
PS: Linky thing all done 🙂
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Black ice is very tricky. But so is just regular ice. I was going up a ramp (many years ago) and lost control and ended up with the front of the care smashed into the concrete road divider. The car was totaled, I was OK.
Autumn into winter here too. 🙂
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What descriptive writing. I can clearly imagine the road and the awful weather.
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Thank you, Suzanne – I really tried to express the impression the weather left on me yesterday as well as the thoughts it brought along. I am waiting for more snow – that is supposed to cover everything, even the awful weather in a way. 🙂
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Beautiful writing..Comparing nature, with its moody tantrums and attention-seeking ‘behavior’, to a woman is so apt. so well done
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Thank you, Padmini, nice to see you in the blogging world again.
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Beautiful
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I hope so…
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Don’t just hope, know…I speak truth 🙂
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I bet you do! 😀
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It’s my truth, so yes I do! Cheers 😀
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Most are not enough alive to be aware but you showed you are. Wonderful work!
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Thank you for those womderful words, JB! Really appreciated!
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I think the first haiku is very beautiful.
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Thank you, Anja! Must admit it was more felt than the second one…somehow.
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Moodiness of nature is a wonderful thing to write about, frustrating in one’s travels. Beautifully done.
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Ah yes, Mother nature! Evocative writing….. I enjoyed your haibun very much.
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brave soul to venture on the road on such a moody weather course – glad you made it back safe and thawed out enough to share your lovely haibun. ☺
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Captured the vagaries of nature and the human spirit so well.
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Beautiful haibun of snowflakes and emotions. Wonderful writing.
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