Crows and haiku poetry

Ohara Shôson - part image of Crow on a Willow Branch in Snow

Crows and haiku poetry

by Alan Summers

dark news

the comfort

of crows

Alan Summers

Publication Credit: tiny words 15.1 (March 31st 2015)

http://tinywords.com/2015/03/31/18021/

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/dark-news-story-of-crows-and-how-simple.html

floating snowflakes -

the triple caw of a crow

within the tree

Alan Summers

Publication credits:  
Snapshots six (1999); Watermark: a poet's notebook - crows (2004); Mainichi Shimbun (Japan, 2008)

intermittent rain I shed another crow

Alan Summers

Publication Credits: 

Frogpond (magazine of Haiku Society of America, autumn 2013 issue 36:3)

Monet’s Haystacks

a group of crows tug

at twilight

Alan Summers

Publication credits: Asahi Shimbun (Japan, 2010)

powdered snow -

a crow’s eyes above

the no parking sign       

Alan Summers
  

Award credit: Joint Winner, Haiku International Association 10th Anniversary Haiku Contest (Japan, 1999)

Other publication credits: The Mie Times (Japan, 1999); Haiku International (Japan publication, 1999); Watermark: A Poet’s Notebook - Crows (2004); The In-Between Season (With Words Pamphlet Series 2012); Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)

Does Fish-God Know:

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/does-fish-god-know-haiku-collection-by.html

    early hours crow

         I invoke a prayer

    to its god and mine

From The Crow Walk ©Alan Summers 2006

HAIKU HIKE (World Walks) Part of Crossover UK's 'Renewability' project (2006)

(different earlier versions of the haibun text published in ‘Paper Wasp’ haiku journal, Queensland, Australia 1997; ‘Azami haiku journal’, Osaka, Japan 1998; and ‘Blithe Spirit’ British Haiku Society journal, June 2004.)

fading last note

a torresian crow sounds

the darkening sky

From The Crow Walk ©Alan Summers 2006

HAIKU HIKE (World Walks) Part of Crossover UK's 'Renewability' project (2006)

(different earlier versions of the haibun text published in ‘Paper Wasp’ haiku journal, Queensland, Australia 1997; ‘Azami’ (Osaka, Japan 1998; and ‘Blithe Spirit’ British Haiku Society journal, June 2004.)

weblink: http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Corvus-orru

messenger shooting crows

Alan Summers

Publication Credits: Roadrunner 12.3 MASKS 4; Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)

Does Fish-God Know:

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/new-book-review-of-does-fish-god-know.html

See also:

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/crows-corvids-caretakers-of-world-and.html

Books about crows:

In the Company of Crows and Ravens

by John M Marzluff and Tony Angell

http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300100760

Crow Country: A Meditation on Birds, Landscape and Nature
by Mark Cocker 

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jul/28/featuresreviews.guardianreview5

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