Ligo Haibun Challenge

 

My chosen prompt:

 

“The earth has music for those who listen.”

Quote by George Santayana

 

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Earth Music

We are lying in my most favourite place. The Blue Mountains speak to us in voices that only they provide our imagination.

Under tall, silent to the naked ear, mountain eucalypts we relax to take in the choir that sings around us.

By the gurgling creek descending into the valley below, the fairy children dance to the sounds of mountain grasses waving in the wind, the tree nymphs sing their praises to the sun, a song of joy to behold.

A kookaburra laughs, his cry of territory and joy at the dawn, a moment of enticement among so many.

I look to my love, who like me is mesmerized by the cacophony of silent sounds only we hear and celebrate, our fingers entwined.

nature’s mystery

plays out a symphony

mesmerizing.

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16 Responses to Ligo Haibun Challenge

  1. Gabriella's avatar Gabriella says:

    You have expressed the beauties of nature and the shared pleasure in a most evocative manner. Are the Blue Mountains in Australia? Some if the elements you described reminded me of the Swiss Alps.

  2. Idyllic scene beautifully described.

  3. twoscamps's avatar twoscamps says:

    You took me right there (and a lovely place it is!) Last year I heard my first kookaburra and it makes me smile just the thought of it. Your haiku was a pleasure to read out loud! Maureen

    • Michael's avatar summerstommy2 says:

      Yes Maureen I would have said that too. In fact for me the haiku should be read out loud. Where I live I wake up most mornings to the kookaburras laughing in the trees. It is a cry they use to establish territory.

  4. nightlake's avatar nightlake says:

    Beautiful. Description of tree nymphs and fairy children – almost like a fantasy world.

  5. Beautifully descriptive

  6. Steph's avatar Steph says:

    A haibun that mentions tree nymphs is as you say, a joy to behold.

  7. Penny L Howe's avatar Penny L Howe says:

    Your words are so beautiful, I greatly enjoyed both your haibun and your haiku! 🙂

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