The Honey Web

Once upon a time a bear was being mean to a unicorn. The bear was trying to eat her (unicorn).

The unicorn is a pet to a beautiful true princess. The true princess wanted to save her unicorn so she poured honey on a spider web.

The bear was hungry for some honey, and ran to the spider web. He fell on the spider web and then he got stuck.
He says, “Please let me out! Cuz I’m gonna be nice!”
True princess said, “I can’t let you out because you being mean.”

So the true princess threw the bear into the sky, where he is to this day, still caught in the honey web. Only at night can you see the bear, when the golden web glimmers in the dark.

True princess and the unicorn are so happy to be free that they go eat ice cream. The end.

Lynn Mari and Nora (4), ©2007

My daughter and I wrote this together… I’m now teaching her how to write poetry with syllables so she can later learn Haiku.

Empty Spaces: Haibun

I stand amid empty spaces. The walls called “home “ have crumbled. Concrete sidewalks welcome weary feet. I have become the man sleeping on the curb. The woman pushing the stained stroller, bags bundled in the bottom. The pale child standing in line at outside an alley kitchen. It has happened to me. Homeless. My strength lies in knowing that from the ruins, remain a scattering of brick and broken lumber—this is the strongest, the foundation. From these I will rebuild my life.

Don’t fear displacement
the final sigh of the wind
will bring the lost home.

Lynn Mari, © 2009