Early morning is my time. In the winter you’ll find me curled on the sofa, drinking tea and scribbling a list or a poem. In summer I may slip outside to water the garden or just breathe deeply. Solitude slips away so easily, lost in the clatter and chatter of the day. I don’t mind – I’ll find it again tomorrow.
oak tree in winter
bare branches twist to the sky
in spring leaves return
A haibun on solitude for Kim at dVerse.
Sarah writes poems 
It’s wonderful and strange to think of us both up early in the morning, Sarah, a couple of hundred miles apart, reading, writing and drinking tea! And you’re so right about solitude slipping away easily and finding it again the next day – I think that keeps us going. I love how that idea echoes in your haiku.
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It’s a lovely thought – my Norfolk fellow lark!
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This summer I think I started to appreciate the solitude of my garden properly. I love the clarity in your haibun and it’s so soothing big as well. When you mentioned just breathing I felt like I was stood out on my decking just basking in the summer sun again. I think it’s a mark of a wonderful poem when it can trigger memories so clearly in a reader.
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Lovely writing. I like that you will “find solitude again tomorrow.” 🙂
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Sarah- how lovely for you to find that solitude, and know it will be there for you.
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Such hopeful prose–wonderful to envision solitude as Me time.
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There is a lovely acceptance to the way life is in your haibun.
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There is so much hope in your haibun. You know the solitude will return! So many people think of solitude as being lonely yet you have turned it into wonder “me” time. I think we have that in common.
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love the idea that solitude is so easy to find again
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Enjoyed the read Sarah. The solitude of winter is harder for me because I find it can leave me prone to depression. Solitude in summer here in the PacNW is glorious. The ocean, the mountains, the rivers and waterfalls – do much wilderness and so accessible and pleasant in Summer. I am glad solitude is easy for you year round.
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“I’ll find it again tomorrow” – bliss!
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your haiku is the ultimate seasonal true haiku, i struggle with those and end up going all over the place, a very good guide for me Sarah, i so love how you confidently know how to look for solitude again.
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My kind of solitude. Just the garden and the watering can.
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The solitude found like that in the morning… I’m too tired usually to get up and find that perfect solitude… I love how you paired it with silence..
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Your vision of solitude sounds lovely!
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Perfect snapshot of a quiet intimate scene.
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I love the way you are in a sense unhurried about your solitude, it feels like it is a joy not a neccessity.
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