Love at First Sight

Love at First Sight

Sports Day at my daughter’s school – we were walking down a narrow path towards the lake. Sounds from the playground were fading away behind us. The forest around the school and the school inside the forest were beginning to sing softly in my heart. And suddenly, I noticed a large Silk Cotton tree, just off the mud track, to my right.

arms around you

my face to your skin

I’m home

A Haibun is the combination of two poems: a prose poem and haiku. The form was popularized by the 17th century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho

Charumathi