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Japanese Haibun
Festival Times!
Here we are at the music festival and the campsite is all set up. Anticipation is in the air as we await the bluegrass bands.
hundreds of campers
one noisy generator
drowned out by laughter
Everyone is sticky from the thirty degree Celsius heat. The Madawaska River invites and many choose to accept.
refreshing water
bodies, tempers chilling out
smiles swim to shore
Soon the tunes are booming across the field. A musical breeze calls everyone toward the area of the stage.
campers flow stageward
entranced as Hamelin's children
bluegrass pied-piper
After the show, campfires blaze up, energies wind down and mosquitoes arrive in full force. They leave when they can't find any un-spiked blood to drink.
sing, laugh, slap, scratch, curse
having too much fun to leave
mosquitoes give up