Prose Haibun Poems | Examples
These Prose Haibun poems are examples of Haibun poems about Prose. These are the best examples of Haibun Prose poems written by international poets.
Apparently, the combination of a prose-like paragraph and a haiku, seemingly disparate, yet interwoven and forever connected, produces the mysterious haibun. This indeed seems unlikely, since the connection relies on you, the dear reader, and the nature of said ingredient is not clearly specified here. Nonetheless, we assemble what we can, sit back, and await what arises from the primordial soup. It’s the yeast we can do.
yeast and pregnant pause
haibuns rise in oven?
directions are vague
a precious diamond ring waited for its rightful owner half buried in the sands of a beach. Many passed the ring but in the busy din of the evening it remained ignored! A message of love sparkled in darkness in the moonlight as waves after waves came to claim it. Clutching her heart she came searching for it and was joyously united with the moon as witness.
in the dark beach sands
glitter of diamond greets
tender trembling hands
Haibun poetry
Prose 91 words
Haiku 5,7,5
The rivers must have stories to tell of years that they have seen life go by. Rabbits that frequent the shores and ducks that quack their way through! my shoes have left imprints on the ground due to rains from night before. Scent of flowers in the morning fresh air attracts lovers from all species around!
life’s drama on shore
desire to procreate more
trees breeze scents encore
Written 20/03/2021
Springtime Haibun
M.L. Kaiser
prose part 67 syllables
haiku 5,7 5
I'm alone with my thoughts at the moment, wondering how to keep them all like ducks in a row inside my head! Argh! They come a mile a minute, raging like a furious flood, doing somersaults! My brain, scrambled eggs.
feeling so confused
can't keep my thoughts together
what is happening!?
Haibun - Pick Your Theme Poetry Contest (Winner: Honorable Mention)
Sponsored by Line Gauthier
Prose word count: 40
Haiku syllable count: 5/7/5
Checked on www. howmanysyllables.com
Date written: 07/26/2020
in twilight gleam I look through haze of obscurity to see fading faces disappear in dust I raised treading track of time to where I’m now at the edge of night waiting for new sunrise with panorama of hued ecstasy
in flushing meadow
pearls of dew sparkle again…
faces rise from dust
July 25, 2020
Word count in prose part : 40
Syllable count in Haiku : 5/7/5
Checked on howmanysyllables.com
Contest : Haibun-Pick Your Theme
Sponsor : Line Gauthier
*Image of Nick Jonas by Giphy.
Myth
Psst hymns shyly sync shyly.
brr rhythm brr
oooo uuuu
tsktsk shh pfft
***Onomatopoeia
Title & Prose; consonants
Haiku; consonants-vowels-consonants
2020 July 11
When not yet two, I stood transfixed before a museum’s staged depiction
of a cougar killing a deer. Terror filled her eyes. Blood soaked her coat.
My mother says it took twenty minutes to pull me away from that scene!
in my memory
death clings like a cougar’s teeth
on its victim’s neck
July 9, 2020 for Line Gauthier's A Memory Poetry Contest
Prose part word count = 40
in the glint of dew strewn mesmeric meadow, on the pearl laced
waves of moon splashed sea I look for rhyme when imageries blow
on mindscape raising dust of emotion turning into storm of afflatus
making me a poet profound
see the miasma
rise from my blooming garden…
birds fly on lyric
June 12, 2020
Prose word count : 40
Haiku syllable count : 5/7/5
Checked on howmanysyllables.com
Contest : Rhymes And Reasons
Sponsor : Line Gauthier
My words are birds hatched from ideas
and nourished by my own opinions, beliefs and memories.
Nature too provides me with inspiration and wings to fly!
I build nests using poetic devices and various poetry forms – often rhymed.
nests of many thoughts
creatively constructed . . .
birdlings I set free
June 5, 2020 for Line Gauthier's Rhymes and Reasons Contest
Checked by WordCounter- prose less than 40 words