This week the task is: Today, I’d like to invite you to consider one of your own journeys, or even a travel experience you have read about, and use it to develop a new haibun. Maybe you would like to write about a trip that deeply affected you or from which you learnt something new, whether it was to the neighborhood park or to a far-off land.
I’m waiting at the terminal. Nervous folk like me are there all gathered inside away from the winter chill. It’s my first time away from home and across a vast distance. At home the sun is relentless in its heat, the fields brown from the sweltering sun.
Outside winter bites at passers by. Rugged against the cold with heads down, their minds set on faraway places. I am waiting in anticipation of her arrival. No matter the weather she is sunshine to me. Around me others are enjoying the warmth, expectant travellers, eyes set on the exotic, the historic and the new.
A blast of cold washes over us as my companion arrives. The irony of her inherent warmth and winter’s iciness doesn’t escape me. Around me there is a pause in the meditations of my fellow travellers as they huddle against the intruding cold. Looking around she spies me and immediately radiates a welcome.
sitting expecting
winters blast contrast heat
arrival at last
Written for: http://dversepoets.com/2016/02/29/haibun-monday-8/
Morpethroad 
There is so much joy in meeting the one we are expecting… I love how you used the contrasts of warmth and heat here…
Thank you Bjorn, I appreciate your comment.
I love your comparison of the cold weather with the warmth of your friend. It is so much easier to “weather the storm” when we are together. Peace, Linda
Thank you Linda and yes it does make all the difference….have a good day..
She is sunshine to me….love how warmth of companionship can seep through the winter chill ~ It makes all the difference when the joy and love of your life is arriving 🙂
Have a good week Michael ~
Thanks Grace appreciate your comment. Enjoy your week too.
Nice contrast in this, Michael, and a perfect description of biting cold weather.
Thank you Victoria, have a good day…
Very nice, Michael! Loved the images you painted and the welcoming at the end.
Thank you Joy, hope you are having a great day….
I am and I hope you are also having a great day!
Every day is a good day Joy…
That is wonderful to hear, Michael! It is early evening in my neck of the world.
Nearly 11.30 am Tuesday here, in the future Joy the weather is fine….
LOL! Yes, it is Monday at 5:31 here. I’m glad tomorrow will be a beautiful day!
So you must be in the centre of the USA, Texas? Just guessing….
Not too far from Texas, I am in the Four Corners (the corner where the four states meet – Arizona, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico.
Oh the warmth of a dear companion to offset the winter chill…what could be better!
Thank you so much, an excellent challenge to write too.
The winter is no match for a heart that “radiates” such warmth. I found myself extra excited about her arrival, too. 🙂
Thank you, so glad you could feel the warmth too..
So very sweet 🙂
Thank you Mandy, warming wasn’t it….
Truly 🙂
😀
Your haibun radiates a warm anticipation and genuine joy at your reunion!
Thank you Lynn, I’m glad that came across so well.
Welcome warmth after waiting: you write it so well. (sorry about the alliteration excess: it’s how my mid works sometimes.)
Thank you Viv, you are very generous. Hope you have a great day.
Your haibun conveyed to me the moment when someone you have been waiting for arrives, bringing a felling of warmth but also carrying with them the chill from outside – there is a particular cold smell that I caught as I read it. Great!
Thank you Kim I appreciate you reading and your lovely comment.
Sorry about the typo – I meant feeling!
I love that feeling of reunion, and you’ve described it so well.
Thank you Misky, appreciate your visit…
Exactly what makes life worth living! Beautiful
Thank you so much Margaret….appreciate you stopping by.
Exactly what makes life worth living! Beautiful.
What a beautiful haibun, Michael…I love how she brought in warmth from the cold…made me want to be in her place…away from the cold.
Love is warming…it is apparent in your lovely haibun. A sweet story, thank you for sharing.
Reblogged this on A Whispered Wind and commented:
Gorgeous haibun of contrasts!
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Thank you Lori, the reblog is very kind of you…
My pleasure, Michael 🙂
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