Alan Summers, Japan Times Award (2002), President, United Haiku and Tanka Society, and co-founder of Call of the Page, providing literature, education & literacy projects, often based around Japanese genres. For events & workshops contact us through our Call of the Page website: Call of the Page.
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Call of the Page (Alan & Karen)
Please email Karen or Alan at our joint email address: admin@callofthepage.org
We will let you know more about these courses.
Call of the Page (Alan & Karen)
Monday, April 21, 2014
A little selection of haiku poems by Alan Summers
breaking up–
the winter landscape
of sunlit horses
Alan Summers
Selected by Isamu Hashimoto November 04, 2013 (Mainichi Japan); Best of Mainichi 2013
long rainy season
another song thrush
returns to itself
Alan Summers
Publication Credit: Acorn Issue #32 Spring 2014
a cluster of grasshoppers
unravel
the rain shadow
Alan Summers
Publication Credit: NOON | journal of the short poem ISSUE 8 (January 2014) ISSN 2188-2967
Sacred Chao...
the winter duck keeps
its circle of water
Alan Summers
Publication Credit: Blithe Spirit 24.1 (2014)
sacred chao: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism#Sacred_Chao
the grass grows dark
a lamentation of swans
shape my world
Alan Summers
Publication Credit: Blithe Spirit 24.1 (2014)
my amber resin exit button
Alan Summers
moongarlic E-zine, Issue: 1 November 2013 ISSN 2052-675X
soft desert rain
the droppings of leaf-hopper insects
from the tamarisk tree
Alan Summers
Publication Credit: brass bell: a haiku journal issue 1 April 2014
glass waste
the changes in rain
across birdsong
Alan Summers
Publication Credit:
Writers & Lovers Café, A HAIKU JOURNAL Hsinchu City, Taiwan Volume I, Number 1 Fall 2013 ISSN 2309-3315
leaves of the book...
travelling the blue atlas
on ember clouds
Alan Summers
Publication Credit:
cattails Premier Edition: January 2014
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)
epidermal tongues-
she scales my 200 bones
on a banana leaf
Alan Summers
Publication Credits: Pulse—voices from the heart of medicine 2014
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4 comments:
Thank you for these - impressive and instructive.
Thanks Nick,
That's very kind of you to say.
warm regards,
Alan
Great stuff!
Thank you Carlos,
Your comment is very much appreciated.
warm regards,
Alan
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