
A robin’s on the fence, facing the neighbours garden, waiting for worms or bugs or both. I’m cutting chives to garnish cooked eggs. Hello there, I say as if a bird gives a tick about good manners and idle pleasantries. But to my surprise, it turns and stares at me. Its feathered breast is the colour of summer squash. And it replies with a whistling squalish single linear response, much like the same sound I make when I eat a sun-warmed tomato straight off the vine, although that particular euphoria is still two months away.
I will greet every
Falling and flying thing that
Shines in the blue sky
For dVerse: Frank’s summertime Haibun Monday. Image from Unsplash. ©Misky 2022 Shared with #amwriting on Twitter. Apologies for the sloppy haiku, which really isn’t a haiku at all.
21 responses to “24 May: A dVerse Summer Haibun”
Lovely, Misky! 💕🙂
LikeLike
Wonderful!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you!
LikeLike
Yes, wonderful! Made me make a little noise of pleasure. So lovely.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks, Worms.
LikeLiked by 1 person
A Lovely encounter and fine haiku (imho)
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks, Peter.
LikeLike
Perhaps it had just eaten a sun-warmed tomato? On another day, you might have had a full-blown conversation.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I suspect its full-blown vocabulary is lacking verbs.
LikeLiked by 1 person
🙂 Personally I think they talk about me behind my back!
LikeLike
As long as you don’t understand what they’re saying, I wouldn’t worry.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I enjoyed reading about this encounter and I like that haiku
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you very much.
LikeLike
I must be hot. I spot them looking at me and whistling.
Wonderful haibun, M. Thanks
LikeLike
Yours are a different species to ours. Ours are the size of a wren or a sparrow.
LikeLike
I’ve a robin’s nest in my hedgerow… and she squaks at me if I get too close! I whistle back and tell her that I think she’s a good protective ‘mother bird’ 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Nice. 🥰
LikeLiked by 1 person
🙂
LikeLike
Loved reading this delightful haibun. Great photo of the bird!
LikeLike
I like the description of “the colour of summer squash.”
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks.
LikeLike