Wow. Thank you. Writing and sharing is such a funny thing. Why do we do it? I don’t know. Is it worth the time it takes (and sometimes heartache)? I don’t know.
Lately, I’ve been subscribing more and more to the idea that we all have unique perspectives and experiences and if we don’t share them, those perspectives and experiences that are uniquely ours will disappear from the world forever, never to return again. In that sense, it’s almost our duty to create and share those creations.
Your comment seems to validate this way of thinking.
Haibun, as far as I know, is as old as haiku itself. I think that it encompasses basically any kind of prose that is paired with one or more haiku, but to be honest, I’m not entirely sure.
I’m not a stickler for rules.
Your reply spawned a haiku in my head:
gently with our words
we can touch one another
ripples forever
That’s great. Apparently, haiku written in response to their haiku is also a thing, although I can’t remember the name for it.
I could be wrong here, but I think haiku was born out of the renga, which was a collaborative poem written by two or more people in a call and response sort of fashion.
Basically, one person would write a short poem and another person would answer it with a short poem, and the process would continue. In some traditions, the goal was to have 100 responses (including the original poem).