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A haibun is a form of Japanese poetry pioneered by the poet Basho, and comprising a section of prose followed by haiku, but there is more to a haibun. What is haibun in poetry (complete definition)?

Oldest Toy
The world's oldest surviving toy, dating back to the Chalcolithic Period, approximately 7500 years old, is exhibited at the Mardin Museum in Turkey. the world oldest toy about seven thousands years car made of good wood...Read the rest...
Categories: old,
Form: Haibun



The Kissing Tree - Human Nature
Spring is the best time of the year for this old crabapple tree. Winters are too lonely and summers too hot. Autumn is nice but people prefer the lake or forest trails. But spring always...Read the rest...
Categories: poetry,
Form: Haibun
Honor thy Father and thy Mother - When Did We Forget
I saw a commercial on TV about some guy teaching younger people how not to be their parents. I started thinking, maybe this is what’s wrong with America. We no longer act like our parents...Read the rest...
Categories: poetry,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Zinnia
____________________________________________________________ It is the persona naught beseech favors from those four elements Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire for the restoration of life or to maintain said life through merely to being Native American tribes symbolize Zinnias as patience and resilience, linking nature with human perseverance. time to hunt ... to fish survive...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, appreciation, beautiful, color,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Universe Speaks
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Somewhere above the sky, born of the color of summer Iris, swirl galaxies of brilliant stars. On fine nights such as this I feel their energy the same way the smile of the one I...Read the rest...
Categories: night, universe,
Form: Haibun



Broke knee, ankle
Blindes is folded into remindness, cause.. .. Do we not live in the world we know nothing abt? We are blinders Indeed Blinders, are timeless. We are they. And they are we. ...Read the rest...
Categories: class,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Yet
One never knows whether indecisive and hypocritical folks are coming or going, whether the face they wear is true or false. They say one thing yet do another. They swear up and down its all...Read the rest...
Categories: confusion, people, perspective,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Psychological Warfare
Random moments drip liquid chronicles through my mind. In still moments, there are quiet images, bold and brilliant, baking their shadows into my dreams. I’m in a sea of brokenness, feeding on sins I once...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, anxiety, christian,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Obsidian Plague of Midnights
In Spring there’s friendship that’s lasted through the Winter, all those cold nights of salted drops and quilts of snow. The obsidian plague of midnights, melancholic drapes, but all the while the candlelight of friendship did glow. you’d think...Read the rest...
Categories: friend, grief,
Form: Haibun
I saw God But Now What
Line Of Inquiry : "I saw God but now what" It was Easter and I was kneading bread on my kitchen counter. A nanosecond flash and God's face appeared on my backsplash, by...Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, faith, god,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Ouchies
my neck hurts often somewhere in the complexity of my moving parts is the problem unidentified I am likely the cause ...Read the rest...
Categories: pain,
Form: Haibun
Paper, Pencil, and No Distraction
I consider myself a technologically savvy old geezer. With a simple utterance of “Hey Google, show me cute puppy videos” my world is filled with hours of mindless entertainment. I can do Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,...Read the rest...
Categories: poetry,
Form: Haibun
Haliaeetus
According to Guinness World Records: The biggest eagle is Steller's Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus) which weighs 5-9 kg (11-20 lb) and has a wing-span of 2.2-2.45 m (7 ft. 2 in-8 ft. 0.3 in). Native to...Read the rest...
Categories: bird,
Form: Haibun
Probate
A cracked windowpane. A few daffodils peek their heads through the weeds that grow tall where flowers once smiled. Purple nettle chokes the life from any grass courageous enough to try to stand in its...Read the rest...
Categories: poetry,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Bird Calls
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pausing next to tall brush and oak trees, I hear the calls of a bird in the immediate environment around me. This little bird is singing a simple melody, two staccato eighth notes which repeat...Read the rest...
Categories: bird, spring,
Form: Haibun

Specific Types of Haibun Poems

Read wonderful haibun poetry on the following sub-topics: autobiography, diary, essay, prose, story and more.

Definition | What is Haibun in Poetry?

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