A small selection of sky haiku by Alan Summers

haiku by Alan Summers, artwork by Angelee Deodhar

 
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each of us born

with a number of breaths-

swallow flight

Alan Summers

Publication Credits:

Pulse—voices from the heart of medicine (inaugural haiku, October 2013)

bleu roi

a thousand flying foxes

quarter the moon

Alan Summers

Anthology credit:

Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac ed. William Higginson (Kodansha International 1996)
https://www.amazon.com/Haiku-World-International-Poetry-Almanac/dp/4770020902
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Haiku-World-International-Poetry-Almanac/dp/4770020902

Tribute: The Heron’s Nest Volume X, Number 4 (December, 2008 Celebrating Bill Higginson)

down side streets -

gulls turning the sky

in and out

Alan Summers

Publication credits: Presence 10 (1999)

Anthology credits: The New Haiku (Snapshot Press, 2002); The Disjunctive Dragonfly, a New Approach to English-Language Haiku by Richard Gilbert (Red Moon Press 2012) [Elemental Animism p80]; Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years. ed. Jim Kacian, Allan Burns & Philip Rowland (W. W. Norton & Company 2013)


Feature: seagull haiku blog collection ed. laryalee fraser (2006)

Award Credit: Haiku Presence webpage Editor's Choice 5

in the river reflection

he watches himself

watch the sunset

Alan Summers

Publication credit: paper wasp (Australia, Spring/Oct 1997)

Anthology: Haiku Enlightenment ed. Gabriel Rosenstock
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009
ISBN (10): 1-4438-0521-1, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-0521-6
  
Page 54: There is a relaxed feeling of lightness – karumi – in the above haiku, employing everyday syntax and easily recognised imagery. Karumi became Basho’s ideal in the final phase of his development. Comment by Gabriel Rosenstock

bent

into his overcoat

the winter sky

Alan Summers

Publication credits: Still (1998)

Award credits: Runner up, still magazine haiku competition (1998)

malibu sunset -

a disposable camera

lifted to the birds

Alan Summers

Publication credits: In Buddha’s Temple (March 2002)

Award credits: 2nd Place, In Buddha’s Temple (2002)

misted over river

the Humber Bridge

links to Heaven

Alan Summers

Publications credits: haijinx volume IV, issue 1 (2011)

hard-blue sky

the ghost touch of rain

on sloe-eyed horses

Alan Summers

Publications credits: BlitheSpirit (Vol 22 No. 3 2012)

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