In my dreams of a perfect midsummer, the sun always shines, children are happy and every girl is crowned with meadow’s freshest flowers. The music and laughter fills the air. The grass feels soft under my fresh feet, and I have you by my side, in a smile of buttercups and wild roses. The afternoon cumulonimbus evaporate and as an evening stillness settle we make new friends while solving the worlds problem. In reality dreams are rarely fulfilled, just as buttercups are poisonous and wild roses have thorns.
buttercups
braided carefully –
for summer’s smile
Copyright Bengt Nyman
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Linked to Carpe Diem
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June 25, 2014
Björn Rudbergs writings 
too bad that dreams don’t often come true…especially with such joyful dreams as that!
This captures just what I love about summer–and it took me back many years to that feeling as a child.
that last line of the prose…there is a bitterness there in the fact that dreams seldom come true….the buttercups and thorns…glad i got a breath in the last little verse…
A sweet picture despite the poison factor.
sweet and bittersweet – loved the dream colored with a touch of reality – but still, summer smiles – K
Good piece Bjorn with some reality included. Lovely photo of a sweet little girl. 🙂 —Susan
Beautiful haiku … great scenery described here … what to say more 🙂
I like that roses have thorns,, as Brian said the bitterness of it is there, but it reminds us that nothing is perfect and that beauty has a price, so we appreciate it more, I like your lines that is braided, time is braided and by it we find sanctity
I love buttercups, it’s the nickname my best friend and I have for one another..and even if they are poisonous they are yellow and happy.
I loved this poem and the Haiku, both made me SMILE.
Your haiku/haibun is like life, a mixture of bitter and sweet, beauty and reality. Your last line ties it all together and then the haiku expands. (…”worlds problems”…”world’s”.) 🙂
janet
A lovely picture has emerged through the haiku… 🙂
Lovely image of the dreams… reality was a real ‘bummer’ though!
Aww, very cute Haiku!
Ow sweet! 🙂
I’m smiling too! 😉
An Offering of Buttercups