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Welcome again. Last week I read 3 of the best haibun I ever have, and urge all to have a look, too, as for me these haibun, each in their own way, show so much about how to write haibun.

There is something very interesting and exciting about haibun, the build-up, the haiku or micro poetry related to the text that works so well. Join us, we're not going away!

Each week there are a choice of two prompts - you should take one. Last week we had the video prompt. This week is the Quote prompt. After that will be the Visual prompt, then the Word prompt.

You are more than welcome to put forward Videos (music), or visual prompts or others.

There has long been running an idea for a haibun anthology, which should run at about 200 pages. I don't really want to do less, and the main problem has been getting enough quality haibun to fill that. Let's all work on that! I won't mention it for a while...

When you write your haibun, link it through the blue critter you see. I'll be publicising your work during the week.

Below the link.up you'll find the two quotes selected this week, both by Nietzche, and both about writing.

Well it's back - the oldest haibun challenge on the web is being revived, along with its dreams and plans!

We kick off this Autumn season with a video prompt week. As always, the formula is a choice of two. Pick one video, then compose a haibun on its theme.

We won't go away again, that's a promise!

He is a controversial figure for me, for his approach to feminity. But his core beliefs and values remain valid, and his thoughts helped and nation to stand.

His personal ethics include a devotion to a life without materialism, which I admire, but his personal ethics regarding family and personal relationships perhaps do not fit mine. However, no-one else was able to claim the Mahatma's mantle, and there are certainly no leaders around anywhere on the globe anymore with even half his stature.  

This week's quote prompt focuses on Ghandi, and I have selected two quotes I think reverberate well. Use one of the quotes as inspiration for your haibun - remember the quote is not expected to be in the haibun.

I very much look forward to reading your haibun, and will try to get to them as early as possible. Regarding publication into an anthology, we are far behind what is needed, so keep writing!

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Greetings from deep in the forest, where electric outlets and wifi cover can be hard to find. Here I am though, at the Arctic ring, happy at last to get this post out, and keep my dream of publishing that haibun anthology.

We're actually building up to the LĪGO festival soon, so we'll have to do something special for that.

Until then I thought we'd bring in two word prompts particularly relevant to the young me- Remember to choose one and include it in your haibun in the word prompt week.

Have a look at the About Haibun button in blue should you need more information.

This week, I'm also asking you to pay particular attention to the relationship between the haiku or verse with your prose.  The haiku must lift the prose, nudge it, take it in a different direction or juxtapose it.

Good luck - enjoy the summer, and link in a haibun that means something to you!

Last week we had haibun from the masters. Its not just that they were pearls, or that each conveyed thoughts that stayed long after being read, or were so illustrative and visual, but more that each one set the standard for this genre of writing. 

Accordingly I won't say which one was better than the other, though strongly suggest you read them by scrolling down, and decide!

It can be daunting to join this challenge among writers who practice their haibun writing so well, but I think it is also an excellent opportunity, and is surely inspirational and motivating.

We have chosen two topical quotes for the quote prompt week. As always choose one. Should you need more information about haibun, please click on the button to the right.

I very much look forward to your haibun, in view of that anthology I keep mumbling about...yes, yes, I know!

Good luck, enjoy your writing. Your quote prompts are as follows. They may be taken literally or not, and are not expected to feature in your haibun. Please enter your haibun in the blue critter link below:

Two flags for the visual prompt this week. I, and we read such a beautiful haibun from Belinda, based in Australia, that I felt I would include the Aboriginal flag as one prompt visual this week, then searched for another one. I was tempted to use the Pennsylvania state flag, in recognition of Jen's consistently superb haibun, but in the end thought the Nunavut flag might inspire more diverse haibun, that don't of course, need to be based on the flag itself.

Please continue to add your haibun at the Medium.com collection on the right - if you feel it adds readers. I find some add many, some not so many, but will be pushing all haibun there. If you recommend a haibun you like at the Līgo Haībun collection there, it heklps push it towards the 'pick of the week' main page selection, which helps exposure very much.

Cathy Freeman caused controversy at the 1994 Commonwealth Games by carrying the Aboriginal flag as well as the Australia's national flag during her victory lap of the arena, after winning the 200 metres sprint; only the national flag is meant to be displayed. Despite strong criticism from both Games officials and Australian team president Arthur Tunstall, Freeman carried both flags again after winning the 400 metres.

The National Indigenous Advisory Committee campaigned for the Aboriginal flag to be flow  during the 2000 Summer Olympics. The flag was flown over the Sydney Harbour Bridge during the march for reconciliation of 2000, and many other events. The Aboriginal Flag is permanently flown in Victoria Square and the front of the Town Hall.

The Nunavuk flag is for a large territory in Canada's Northwest. An inuksuk, (from the Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᒃᓱᒃ) is a stone landmark or cairn built by humans, used by the Inuit peoples of the Arctic. These structures are found from Alaska to Greenland. 

The inuksuk may have been used for navigation, as a point of reference, a marker for travel routes, fishing places, camps, hunting grounds, places of veneration, drift fences used in hunting or to mark a food cache. The Inupiat in northern Alaska used inuksuit to assist in the herding of caribou into contained areas for slaughter.

Yes I know, this is supposed to be a weekly challenge, to kickstart the week. We're trying hard to do that, and must try harder, being the original internet haibun challenge. 

Our aim is to get you published, and we need more haibun to do so. I cannot explain my sudden forays deep into my forested hills for days, other than sleeping out in nature is just such an attraction, especially now the weather is warm.

We have two prompt words directly connected to me this week, in our prompt week. We'll need two visuals from someone for next week's visual week, so send away please!

Choose just one of the prompt words to incorporate into your haibun. If you need a bit more information for your haibun, click on the'About Haibun' button on the right.

Give your guts on this one. Make the background scenery move also, don't keep it too stable or static, and keep the haiku simple.

The prompt words - choose one, are just below. Link our haibun in the blue ritter, and best of luck. Remember we want that haibun anthology with your haibun in it out as soon as possible.

Happy Monday...the only quiet day of the week! Līgo Haībun Challenge this week focuses on a giant, Louis Armstrong. Two quotes of his given, one to be chosen for your haibun. We are still playing catch up with all, but are trying to get too many books published at once. Still, we need haibun and illustrators for our anthology we want to publish.

Until then, here's the two quotes:

Nice quotes I think, and from a great man. So turn the music up, and see if you can make your words flow like the notes do!

Click on the About Haibun button if you need more information. Good luck, and participate in our anthology collection!

pour on me
over the rock of heathens
mother nature's massage

We are creeping back to schedule and I am slowly creeping forward with reading the backlog of haibun I want to read.

I have chosen to be back at my old website not just to confuse everyone further, but because linking in our new formula is better here, but you can link from your blogs too.

Let me explain. If you look at the bar to the right you'll see the long visual. Click on the title and it will take you there. Submit your haibun to the Līgo Haībun collection and your readership will go up - substantially. In fact you can submit all your haibun there. It just means two things:

• that you will need to copy/paste it or them
  

and

• that you need to open a site on Medium, in about 5 secs with your twitter login.
  

Submitting is easy. Once your haibun is copied onto a new post, click to publish in the top right hand corner. Then click to put it into the 
Līgo Haībun collection.

If you click on the two arrows at the top right corner of the Medium Līgo Haībun collection page, to the right, you'll go to a page where you can take the text and put either into your blog or sidebar, by pasting the text. Either into a widget on the side bar, or directly to your post by clicking on the Text mode on the top right of your Edit mode, next to Visual, then clicking back. On WordPress you-ll see Līgo Haībun appear. The visual will not appear. That's WordPress.


Here's the prompt words for this week:

  Saviour/Savior            or                Nirvana

Remember in the word prompt week the word you choose must be in your haibun. Please check the About Haibun on the sidebar for more information about writing haibun, and feel free to use our logo - and please do put our appreciation badge on your blog if you have been mentioned in our Honourable Mentions for your haibun.  
 

Best of luck. Write us a haibun...