Today Victoria at dVerse want us to write poetry on what inspire, motivate, excite and also outrage us most. Ligo haibun at the same time want us to write haibun on eiter fantasy or inspiration. What a coincidence! Therefore I have written a haibun about our summer walks in Scandinavian mountains.
Copyright Björn Rudberg
waking up inside our tent to mumbling of a stream
in everlasting daylight we let the day be governed
by how the weather is, and without specific goal
the road –
is what’s important
not the goal
we wander ‘cross a verdant mountain heath.
an arctic summer is like the early days of May
flowers in abundance and birds eager to protect
an offspring that grow adult in just a few weeks
arctic summer
season upon season
the summer months
despite the inflow of impressions, on wings of fantasy
I’m carried far away, formulating verses in my mind
that I can put on paper when I later look at pictures
captured as reminder of this day of inspiration
impressions
feeding my fantasy
with inspiration
May 2, 2013
Björn Rudbergs writings 
This was a beautiful haibun and the photo looks superb
Thank you 😉
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Loved this.
Thank you 🙂
Always 🙂
nice….like the blend of the love of poetry and nature…we def relate…and i am a firm believer that the journey is as important or more important than the goal…
deep inside every human I believe there is a traveller… to move on is important and summer definitely awaken that bug within me.
oh wow…that sounds awesome….stuff for inspiration for sure…and yeah..it’s the journey that brings so much magic into our lives
It is.. we have been walking around in the mountains every year for 30 years now.
I think this is my favourite of your work I’ve read. I can see how you would be inpired by that landscape and the feeling walking there and I agree it’s the road not the goal that counts.
Thank you… yes nature is so much an inspiration for me.
amazing write and design! Nature does that for me too…Lovely 🙂
Thank you 🙂 great inspiration out there.
Mmmmmm – lovely photo and I really enjoyed the haibun too. Now I will have to go and get some new hiking boots and take to our Scottish mountains…
Yes it’s a joy to get out into the mountains.
Oooh…I want to go there. This seems to be such a place of beauty and I thank you for transporting me there. One of the wonders of poetry, don’t you think?
Yes indeed, that’s what so great with dVerse and a few other prompts I write on. Really let me travel across the wor(l)d
“Life is a journey, not a destination.”
and you wisely applied that to your roamings.
We have images like that from the Highlands, and this makes me want to get those on the screen again. Short sleeves at what height?
Thank you, short sleeves depends on how strenuous it is… we have had anything between 0 and 25 C while walking in summer…
Love this, Bjorn, especially the middle. I’m inspired by nature, too. The camera is a necessity. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you. I always always carry a camera, and have lots of pictures.
Beautiful, Bjorn. I often do the same thing, writing mental notes as I take in a scene, or take photos of it.
I have those images engraved within. But I can never write anything there, I need to process it in my head.
this was wonderful and between you and Ninot, I am really wanting to try a haibun
I look forward to see great haibun 🙂
I love in the NW Ring of Fire here on the Pacific Coast of Washington state, and the Cascades & Olympic mountains hem me in like a babe in a giant’s crib, as Mt. Rainier, Baker, Adams, & St. Helens beckon to me daily; nothing satisfies like hiking in he foothills or up on the broad shoulders of volcanoes.
Oh I would love to hike in that area. But once you get rooted in one are you tend to long there when summer comes.
Very good! I think it takes a poetic soul to really appreciate what Nature can do for the imagination. And then there are those special ones, like you, who can actually put that poetic feeling into words. Marvelous.
Thank you .. yes I’m passionate about “my” mountains
Beautiful, Bjorn! Something of the far north is always in your words–a beautiful, hard clarity.
Thank you.. That’s a very very nice comment.
do like those 3 liners and how the stand out
Thank you.. yes mixing haiku with prose is a very nice way to do poetry.. it goes back to Basho but it is a style I really like
Beautifully written. I think I need to read it many more times to get the most out of it because there is so much here. Really enjoyable and an incredible photo.
Thank you Eric. Means a lot coming from you. I will get back to read the entries on Ligo haibun later (but yours always speaks to me in a unique voice)
Such a beautifully poetic journal.
Thank you Rowan.
Your prose is beautiful poetry, with the bonus of lovely haiku. I have felt these same emotions in wild places.
Thank you . a place that inspire and gives me strength.
wonderful, loved the poetic description and the conclusion, A very nice form to think, contemplate and conclude!
Thank you. It’s easy to be poetic about a place you love…
fantastic haibun, you seem to have made this form your own. Just loved it..so well done!
Thank you 🙂
I love how you shaped this poem and the feel of it too. Nice work.
Thank you .. though an exercise in form. I think it was more content driven this time.
Beautiful and really enjoyable to read. The long lines of appreciative thought, and the short lines, thoughts in the background of thoughts, cuts to what is fundamental, causes one to pause and ponder at each break. The whole thing just seems to breathe with its own rhythm. Really good.
Gorgeous. That’s exactly what I’d like to do someday.
I do love the haibun. And I enjoy your poetry so much, Björn because i often feel I am there witnessing all this natural splendor. Your love for your homeland is so inspiring.
It must be a poetic thing that we are forever creating verses in our minds… sometimes quite outside of what is happening in the moment 🙂 Thank you for the intro to haibun… and for your lovely poem.
Björn , you have written for both prompts beautifully – the fantasy and the inspiration.
“the road –
is what’s important
not the goal”
i couldn’t agree more 🙂
That was a nice description of the joy of walking in the mountains. Since I begun writing poetry I have not walked in the mountains, but I believe I understand the inspiration you describe. I remember a dreaming existence. And the Scandinavian mountains, or better the nature of ours, is magnificent. Thank you Lord!
I agree that the road is what is important, not the goal, when you feel for it. But the words inspired me to reflect a bit upon that. And God let me come up with this:
THE ROAD
Enjoyed the road
is by the load.
So be it light!
In Christ be right!
+ 🙂 +
Thank you. Walking is the best of meditations
beautiful moment you shared here Bjorn…i especially love the image of “the mumbling of a stream in everlasting daylight…” wonderful. ♥
How in the world do you manage to sleep in a tent when the sun doesn’t go down? It matters little. You convey my feelings when I’m journeying through the mountains half a world away. The human journey to where ever our feet take us.