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Poetry Friday: The Haibun Form and Inspiration
Trying new forms of writing helps us to grow in our craft!
I’ve never written a haibun and could not remember what the context was of writing one, although I know I’ve read several from my poetry peers. As I was looking for some poetry form to try to encapsulate our recent trip to Maine, the word haibun popped into my mind. (I must have remembered something about this form, as it seemed a perfect fit for some of the observations, I made about the natural settings in Maine’s Acadia National Park and the state’s rocky coast.)
Poets.org offers a nice synopsis of the form but not enough examples of how prose and haiku work together. They espoused how the two writing forms work together to form a haibun but not enough examples of actual writings. This is just my opinion of course, but it sent me looking elsewhere.
Now that I have an idea of form and an idea from which part of my trip, I’ll
focus on the haibun, I need to read some more specific examples other than the famous ancient poet Basho.
Here are some sources I checked:
