ON BARE FEET, a haibun.
I love walking on bare feet. So I do that a lot. As I come home from work the first thing I do is pull off my shoes and socks. It feels good. The air around my feet that have been enclosed in shoes the whole day. Even outside I am walking on bare feet. Today I realized that I was on bare feet when I walked outside in the snow to close the fence. It’s so common to me to walk on bare feet. In Summer, when our dog was still alive, I walked him on bare feet. I love the contact with Mother Earth as I am walking on bare feet through the grass, the forest or where ever. It feels like I am a kid again. When I was a baby I laid in my pram with bare feet. In that time I was pure and didn’t know much of the world. I didn’t know about haibun and haiku or any form of poetry. Now … years later I experience that same pureness and not knowing when I walk on bare feet. Love that. Once again I have to walk on bare feet through the snow to close the fence again. The mailman has not closed it. When I have closed the fence I open the Christmas cards. In one of them I see a wonderful Anton Pieck card, such a nostalgic card. A little boy, poorly dressed, walking on bare feet in the snow and throwing snowballs. He laughs and his face is healthy red by the cold and the joy of throwing snowballs.
on bare feet a street urchin plays in the snow
Just a nice picture, with a Christmas thought
Have a Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year |
walking on bare feet through
the heaps of snow
A good response from Vasile too.
"Summer’s" -> "Summer"
"I didn’t know about haibun and haiku or what form of poetry." -> "I didn’t know about haibun and haiku or any form of poetry."
Shyam thank you for the corrections. English isn't my maiden language, but I try to write the English as well as I can. I have to learn, so corrections on my English isn't a problem.
Thank you so much.
Namaste