Suppose someone
told you
that there was
something that spoke to you every night,
that always presented you with a truth about your own life and soul,
that was tailor-made to your individual needs and particular life-story,
and that offered to guide you throughout your lifetime,
and connect you with a source of wisdom far beyond yourself.
And, furthermore, suppose that all of this was absolutely free.
Naturally you would be astonished that something like this existed.
that always presented you with a truth about your own life and soul,
that was tailor-made to your individual needs and particular life-story,
and that offered to guide you throughout your lifetime,
and connect you with a source of wisdom far beyond yourself.
And, furthermore, suppose that all of this was absolutely free.
Naturally you would be astonished that something like this existed.
Yet this is
exactly the way it is with our dreams.
~John A. Sanford in Dreams and Healing
Your challenge is to write a haiku or tanka (or choose one of your previously published works) that has a connection with the themes/feelings/images of the above quote, without just restating what has appeared in the text, to create a haibun. Play around with it and see what you come up with. Enjoy!
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her smile
ReplyDeleteblossoms in the garden of life
the moist breeze
swings on the wings of butterflies
unveiling the early morning dream
--Fire Pearls 2 : Masterpieces of Love and Passion Anthology, M Kei (Ed.), June 2013
My dreams and nightmares
ReplyDeletehave a quality of truth
but cannot be truth
rose in a glass
ReplyDeleteby my bedside-
a dream
of flying...
not falling
July 12: dreams
ReplyDeletethe dream cost nothing until I remembered I could not pay the price
Gary Blankenship
searching for my totem
ReplyDeletean ant
brushed away