WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY!
Colleen’s Weekly Tanka Challenge.
It’s the fifth Tuesday of the month! This is our chance to work with a specific syllabic poetry form. Take this opportunity to learn more about the particular form.
This week’s form is:
Haibun
As an added bit to the challenge… please use Frank J. Tassone’s photo as the inspiration for your Haibun. Frank says this spot is called Getrude’s Nose, a Rocky promenade located in Minnewaska Preserve State Park, in the Shawangunk Mountains outside New Paltz, New York (about a 2 hour drive out of NYC). Please include the copyright to the photo in your post.
I decided to take on Colleen’s challenge and write about part of my recent time in hospital.
The Table.
I lie on my side, voices above my head are panicked. Another voice arrives, a quick discussion ensues. Angiogram is mentioned, I am moved. It’s all panic and pain. My head searches for escape, trees, rock, warmth and peace. The voices decide what they are doing. A voice barks orders at me, the pain increases…..
Help me fly, Gaia.
Bare me away on wings of
Your healing powers
willowdot21 
Jun 30, 2020 @ 16:31:01
Well written! I don’t know what a haibun is. (Okay, I looked it up, so now I do.) That must have been a scary experience!
Jun 30, 2020 @ 16:42:55
It was rather horrible but it’s in the past now, just wanted to write it out 💜
Jun 30, 2020 @ 17:56:47
You did good, Sis 🥰
Jun 30, 2020 @ 16:39:43
Thank you Sis, have you had a good day 💜💜
Jun 30, 2020 @ 16:40:33
Yea, Sis, but busy. Permanently knackered now!!
Jun 30, 2020 @ 16:43:20
I can imagine 😔💜💜
Jun 30, 2020 @ 20:06:36
Oh, how scary! Is Gia someone you know, or is that another way to say Gaia? What do I know? I need to do what Priscilla Bettis and lookup haibun. Oh, I didn’t realize that the more descriptive part was preamble to the haiku. Learn something new every day! Form aside, that was a terrifying time for you. Glad you made it through, blessed be those hands guided in the healing. ❤
Jun 30, 2020 @ 20:35:48
Oops it is Gaia , a spelling mistake, thank you for pointing that out. It was awful they only used a local anaesthetic to put the drain in and the radiologist got it wrong, sent one of her colleagues to get help. Boss man arrived and spent ages talking about what to do. At one point I said to the boss man, “did you say you can fix this” He said yes I can” so I said ” then stop taking and do it! ” I don’t think he liked that. He said I had to have an angiogram to see the problem… That was a nightmare too. Anyway he did fix it, the first radiologist had missed completely and gone through a nerve or ligerment.. anyway he took it out and fitted another..honest I was in so much pain. Yuk!! 💜💜💜
Jul 01, 2020 @ 00:11:53
Oh, you poor thing! I’m glad it is over and in the healing. You describe it so well, I can nearly feel it. Goodness! Oh, I wasn’t trying to correct on the Gaia. I have a niece named Gia so I thought maybe it was a nurse/doctor or maybe there was another way to say Gaia. Hugs, my friend.
Jul 01, 2020 @ 04:40:18
I am grateful that you pointed it out💜. It was not a good experience but thankfully in the past now , draining and healing now 💜💜💜
Jul 02, 2020 @ 02:51:43
💜💜🤗🌹🙏
Jul 01, 2020 @ 03:38:17
I hope you are doing much better now, Willow. A powerful haibun.
Jul 01, 2020 @ 04:46:05
Thank you Robbie I am progressing, slower than I had hoped but getting there. I do not find Haibun an easy disapline but I do like to try 💜💜💜
Jul 01, 2020 @ 15:36:43
Love the way the haiku pulls this together even though the circumstances sound a little scary. Nice writing!
Pat
Jul 01, 2020 @ 20:02:07
May you continue to heal quickly and safely.
((Hugs)) ~Jules
Jul 01, 2020 @ 20:22:52
Thank you 💜
Jul 02, 2020 @ 11:13:22
💌 sending good thoughts your way!
Jul 02, 2020 @ 11:36:53
And send you some too
Jul 02, 2020 @ 12:21:22
A kindness bounce ~ of which the world needs more of ~Thank you!
Jul 02, 2020 @ 12:28:57
I like that a kindness bounce 😉
Jul 02, 2020 @ 12:35:49
😀
Jul 02, 2020 @ 13:58:11
😀😀😀💜💜
Jul 02, 2020 @ 17:53:38
…just saw my first Monarch Butterfly of the summer! 🌞
Jul 02, 2020 @ 18:20:10
Wow they are so lovely aren’t they 💜💜🦋🦋🦋🦋
Jul 02, 2020 @ 18:28:25
I tried growing a few… but it was late in the season and they had a parasite… I do remember one year when my children were little that we did save a Monarch Cat and watched it emerge! 😀
Jul 02, 2020 @ 18:36:22
It’s lovely to do isn’t it , my daughter in law does that each year with our grandchildren.
Jul 02, 2020 @ 18:57:36
I don’t have instagram… But my one son and his gal do that every year (not kidlets) just to save the cats sometimes from eggs!… and a few swallowtails too.
Jul 02, 2020 @ 19:03:44
It’s a lovely pastime 💜💜
Jul 02, 2020 @ 19:24:04
Helping to save nature… The good bits –
unlike those thinks like Japanese Beetles and Spotted lantern flies…
Jul 02, 2020 @ 19:57:39
Yes indeed
Jul 02, 2020 @ 01:38:10
Beautifully done. Get well soon.
Jul 02, 2020 @ 05:15:41
Thank you 💜
Jul 02, 2020 @ 10:34:33
Beautifully written and I hope you get well soon
Jul 02, 2020 @ 11:32:40
Thank you so much 💜
Jul 02, 2020 @ 11:44:16
My pleasure
Jul 02, 2020 @ 11:45:05
😀
Jul 02, 2020 @ 19:39:57
Well done, Willow! What a great way to express what you went through in hospital. Here’s to hoping you are on the mend. ❤
Jul 02, 2020 @ 18:21:03
Slowly Colleen but getting there 😉💜
Jul 02, 2020 @ 18:23:12
Glad to hear. ❤
Jul 02, 2020 @ 18:33:14
I wrote some more bad memories out today as well, would you call it s Haibun too, I used s Tanka.
https://willowdot21.wordpress.com/2020/07/02/thursday-photo-prompt-dream-writephoto/
Jul 02, 2020 @ 18:39:51
If you use a Tanka, Willow, it’s called tanka prose. Same idea, but different than Haibun because you can write more about feelings. ❤
Jul 02, 2020 @ 18:41:23
Thank you Colleen, see I am learning every day and venting the bad fears 💜💜💜💜
Jul 02, 2020 @ 18:50:08
Yes! Poetry is so good for that. It helps other people as well. ❤ You are never alone.
Jul 02, 2020 @ 18:51:24
I know that , I hope I do help others because you and many others certainly help me 💜💜
Jul 02, 2020 @ 20:40:55
Awwww, hugs and love to you, Willow. ❤
Jul 02, 2020 @ 21:11:30
💜💜
Jul 04, 2020 @ 08:51:34
Great Haibun Willow and so pleased you are now on the mend.. a scary time..hugsx♥
Jul 04, 2020 @ 09:20:37
Thank you Sally it really was/ is but I take it day by day 💜