Merry Christmas Everyone! Christmas and Winter haiku

Verse by Alan Summers
Artwork by Dave Alderslade
About Dave Alderslade: http://davidalderslade.com/info.html

Winter bonus

the mailman buys

a hot toddy

Publication Credit:   Asahi Shimbun (December 2014)

how does this swan
         sleep like a diamond
     frosted moon

Publication Credit:   Frozen Butterfly (October 2014)

heat and sunlight

a child starts building

snow castles

Publication Credit: Derafsh-e Mehr Issue#4 Winter & Spring 2014

falling clouds

the snow gathering

bits of moon

Publication Credit:   hedgerow: a journal of small poems (Issue 1, September 2014)

snowing

through the blizzard

particles of me

Publications credits:  

The Haiku Calendar 2012 (Snapshot Press); The Humours of Haiku (Iron Press 2012); The In-Between Season (With Words Haiku Pamphlet Series 2012); Cornell University, Mann Library (March 2013); Per Diem Archive: D. Wentworth April 2014, "Transcendence" 

Award credits: 

Winner, The Haiku Calendar Competition 2011 (Snapshot Press)

slowing

the french train passes

trees with mistletoe

Publications credits: Blithe Spirit vol.19  no. 1 (2009)

woodfire

flickering in the silence

corralled horses

Publications credits: Modern Haiku vol. xxvi  no. 3 (1995); Moonlighting  (Intimations Pamphlet Series BHS Profile, 1996); sundog haiku journal: an australian year  (sunfast press 1997 reprinted 1998); California State Library - 1997; First Australian Haiku online Anthology (1999); First Australian Anthology (Paper Wasp 2000); haiku dreaming australia the best haiku & senryu relevant in and to australia (Australia 2006); The Crow Walk haibun (HAIKU HIKE, World Walks, Crossover UK 'Renewability' project 2006)); Stepping Stones:  a way into haiku  (British Haiku Society 2007); Mann Library, Cornell University Daily Haiku (March 2013)

winter timetable-

the late train leaves behind

half a school trip

Publications credits: Blithe Spirit  vol 17 no. 1 (2007)

snow flurry

a child thrusts his anorak

into it

Publications credits: Simply Haiku vol. 1 no. 3 (2003)

field of snow

the horses

back to back

Publications credits: Blithe Spirit vol. 19 no. 1 (2009); Haiku Friends Vol. 3 (Japan 2009)

hot sandwiches

the railing spikes collect

children's gloves

Publications credits: 

Presence 41 (2010) ISSN 1366-5367; Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)

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