Carpe Diem – Tyumen

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This long train trip gives us opportunity to be bored. Slowly we are comfortable enough with each other to be silent, and gradually we slip into blessed boredom. I see you watch the trees passing by, maybe in the hope of seeing a shy forest animal, like a fox or a moose, later you will pick up a book to travel into another direction than we are heading.

The passing trees is just monotony waiting for a lonely fox

Bored Fox from WIkimedia Commons

Bored Fox from WIkimedia Commons


Linked to Carpe Diem

Also linking this to dVerse – the haiku in this haibun is replaced with an American sentence.
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January 9, 2014

44 responses to “Carpe Diem – Tyumen”

    • With enough trees … I have to say the taiga is enormous.. I have experienced this feeling travelling in northern Sweden… which is very small compared to Siberia.. still large… nothing really happens outside..

  2. It’s amazing what we can see, in the silent monotony of the world. I often sit in the backyard and gaze up at the trees. Just yesterday, I noticed a lonely bird nest – the leaves are falling all around it, and there it was. I’ve heard and seen the birds for weeks; now I’ve discovered their nest 🙂

  10. Traveling by train is one of my favorite things to do. I am smitten with the Czar, researched it all, only looking for an in to make i happen. Great read. >KB

  12. The trans-Siberian railway; thousands of kilometres of birch taiga – like Finland only more of it … smiles. Thanks for sharing this, Bjorn – the American Sentence is fabulous.

  14. There is something truly beautiful about being comfortable enough to be silent with someone. I treasure those relationships. I’m rather fond of foxes too. This painted a lovely atmosphere.

  16. I could hear the Trans-Siberian orchestra in your ear buds, brother; a nice use of Haibun + American Sentence; a clever dude poet you be, sir; thanks.

  25. I can be entertained by the most mundane…looking for a glimpse of a wild creature out in nature is one of them. Could hear the clackety-clack of the train…and love that last line.

  28. I love how I can really see what is going on here. I especially loved the line about the book where the reader is heading for another direction than the one you guys are moving towards to. Beautiful words. 🙂

  30. Comfortable enough to be silent. That is the best feeling. And allowing a book to take us to where we are not going. Lovely work!

  35. I love your American sentence. Perfect description of the fox. (i’d be looking out the window, too, and then bury myself in a book).

  36. Some time ago we learned of a literary device from Sam Peralta called “conflation” in brief, combining two seemingly unrelated subjects into one piece, so that it blends and makes its own sort of sense. I was reminded of that as I read your tale of train and fox. Well done!

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