For me, I find that I like to capture a moment. It is like taking a photograph, I want to make it three-dimensional and breathe life into it. It can be any moment, it can be a moment that exists has existed or a created imaginary moment. The moment can be characterised by a sound, an image, a feeling, and the poem grows from that moment.
I also like to play with words, I see it is a challenge. I guess it is like playing music, I enjoy it immensely, making the images and playing with the words and sounds. Tonight the sunset was bright orange. It was truly amazing, this was the moment- it was burnished orange. It became a Haiku because tonight was haibun Monday. I didn’t think I would get home in time to get a photo, but I just caught the last traces of it.
Bright orange sunset
Burnished embers summer sun
Harvest moon leaves fall.
© Alison Jean Hankinson
This is for d’Verse Haibun Monday.
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Capturing a moment, real, present or past, even future or imaginative. Love that sentiment! Enjoyed reading this. Beautiful photo!
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Thanks to you. XXX I was actually driving my daughter to the emergency doctors, but it was too beautiful a sunset to ignore. We then had to go to the late pharmacy…but the last embers were still visible when we finally got home….
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I so very much love the thought of capturing a moment, to have a keen eye to find a poem in a shade of color, or the moment of a breeze… glad you could capture a snapshot in time.
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many thanks- it was a beautiful colour, it needed to be spoken.
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I can see writing a poem as like taking a picture even though they are different approaches to the moment. There is a paying attention and a result to create.
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Lovely haiku. I love it when a poem captures a moment like that. Gorgeous.
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Beautiful capture of sunset in poem and photo. I identify with much of what drives you to write.
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I love your analogy of words being like playing music. A perfect description! Beautiful photographs too.
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You got the message of capturing the moment across very clearly. Beautiful 🙂
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I love that color of the sunset too. And capturing the moment is also a challenge for me as it is fleeting as clouds. Thanks for sharing.
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breath life into a photograph – I can relate. amazing sunset
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Oh yes, Alison, capturing a moment is the thing, enhanced by playing – with anything. I love the glowing haiku!
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Your photograph analogy is perfect here, Alison. Capturing that moment takes as much an eye as any art form, and you seem to have a wonderful “brush stroke”. Thanks for sharing your process!
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Many thanks. A lovely comment.
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A lovely write Alison and a beautiful haiku capturing that gorgeous sunset :o) xxx
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Playing with words is the best part. (K)
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Embers is exactly what this looks like and “burnished embers” takes it up a notch in the imagination. Your penchant for capturing a moment lends itself perfectly to the haiku form.
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Many many thanks.
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