Unable to sleep last night in advance of an international trip starting today – I still get excited – I found myself reminiscing about summers past. Warm breezes, long and lazy days, fireflies at night sparking their way into my dreams.
midsummer evenings
wind softly kissing my face
firefly dreams glowing
Wishing you happy dreams and fireflies…
© 2018 Glover Gardens
2025 Update
Over at the dVerse Poets Pub, Frank has shared a prompt asking for a summer or winter haibun, that is, prose that introduces a haiku. The prompt describes haibun in more detail:
The form consists of one to a few paragraphs of prose—usually written in the present tense—that evoke an experience and are often non-fictional/autobiographical. They may be preceded or followed by one or more haiku—nature-based, using a seasonal image—that complement without directly repeating what the prose stated.
This summer-nostalgic post from 2018 is haibun through and through, so I’m responding to the prompt, and eagerly reading the other haibuns contributed by other poets. You can find them here: Haibun Monday 6-23-25: Summer OR Winter poems.
© 2025, Glover Gardens
Wishing you happy dreams and a safe trip, Kim.
Thank you, Tanja! So far, so good. Aberdeen is a chilly and beautiful 60 degrees, in stark contrast to the sweaty 100 when I left southeast TX.
Thank you, Tanja – so far, so good! See today’s post about the kitty in Aberdeen…
Love the thought of fireflies… (we neither have them nor any real summer darkness)
Fireflies are truly magical. And wow, I can’t imagine living every summer without any real darkness. I’ve been to Norway and Northern Scotland in the summer, and I have to do a double-whammy of blackout curtains and an eye mask to be able to sleep. I guess you get used to it. I learned in Aberdeen that the slight darkening of the sky in the wee-est hours is called ‘nautical twilight’ there.
Lovely fireflies dreams, I hope you have a lovely time overseas.
Thank you!