Daylight lingers after sunset; sky is raspberry lemonade and from above the birds still sing. Night will come, but in a few month from now dusk will merge with dawn. They say the twilight’s blue but to me it’s more like silver. But when you visit me in summer you’ll have to sleep in daylight and never see the stars.
blue as daylit sky
its eggs are still unhatched —
blackbird secrets
Victoria hosts at dVerse haibun Monday and inspires us to write about chijitsu meaning dusk and lingering day.
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April 16, 2018
Björn Rudbergs writings 
Raspberry lemonade–such a perfect description of that evening sky. I can’t imagine living in constant daylight–I had family in Alaska and my aunt had such a hard time getting her children to sleep in summer.
I love the constant daylight… you get used to sleep when you are tired not by the clock.
Welcome back, Bjorn! I hope you had a great break. Another lovely photograph to illustrate an equally lovely haibun.I agree with Victoria that raspberry lemonade is an excellent description of the sky at sunset.
Your haiku is stunning!
Thank you… I had a wonderful vacation… a visit back to winter (as winter should be)… and coming back to spring was great.
What a beautiful haiku. I have always wanted to see those white nights.
I still wait for the white nights…. midsummer can be wonderful…
Your haiku is just stunning. I too love the raspberry lemonade sky. Welcome back from your vacation! It is good to see you back.
Love to be back… hope I will still be able to write 30 poems in April… 🙂
You got a lot of catching up to do! I am hanging with the Toads for their 30 in 30. So far I am up to 16. I’ve never lasted this long before because I always got bored with the prompts. Toads is keeping it interesting!
I like the description how “dusk will merge with dawn”.
i was eager to read you on this one. youve got a fascinating latitude.
It’s a perfect latitude for lovers of twilight.
The colour of this poem for me is dusky silver. Mysterious Scandinavia.
I like your use of colors in this piece, and love the line “you’ll have to sleep in daylight and never see the stars.” Nice to see you back.
I love the sky being described as ‘raspberry lemonade’ – wonderful phrasing!
Everything here seems late..even the lambs…
Raspberry lemonade sky, how delicious! Lovely!
I love this. Welcome back!
Love to see that color : sky is raspberry lemonade and the twilight blue ~ Welcome back Bjorn ~
You reminded me that daylight will still come to linger for a longer period of time. A perfect haiku.
I have not lived as far north as you, but I have traveled by canoe in the unending twilight. You captured it well!
I liked the haiku, especially the last line. I will be thinking about blackbird secrets.
the colors are so vivid. the haiku so apt.
I like the silver framework of your dusk meeting dawn. Maybe one day I will experience that northern sky. Oh, the secrets of nature.
Dusk merging with dawn…a whole distinct experience outside of mine…I’m glad you wrote about it.
Great vivid descriptions, I could resonate with all of those colours.
Wow, for you way up there, dusk really does just blend with the dawn. A wonder of the world I’ve yet to experience but the implications are so intriguing. In one season there really is no reason to be afraid. And a wonderful haiku, as well.
I love the raspberry lemonade. Makes me want to drink in the sky!
I liked this piece very much, great Haiku.
I enjoyed your beautiful description of twilight in your region. I never thought of dusk blending into dawn in Swedish summers.
Beautiful eloquence in brevity, Bjorn! Your prose and haiku are vividly evocative!
Just lovely Bjorn, and that image of a season without night, without stars, without darkness – I mean how’s a poet going to write anything? (I’m sure you’ll find a way). Great stuff.
In summer I’m a twilight poet.
never seeing the stars… in Michigan and here by the Blue Ridge Parkway (NC) the nightly stars are a reason to go outside and gaze for a while in silence. I would certainly miss that. Lovely Haibun and haiku.
Raspberry lemonade sky….delectable! Ah yes…..Sweden’s starless summer sky 😎