Second Prize for Alan Summers - The Australian Haiku Society Spring Haiga Kukai: Non Seasonal Results with comments by judge Ron Moss

photo©Ron Moss, Tasmania, Australia 2007

The Australian Haiku Society announced that it will hold a Haiga Kukai on the spring equinox 2017. Images by Ron Moss will be displayed on the AHS website and Ron will then select the winning haiku.

Second Place

rush hour the train station cornea by cornea

-Alan Summers

Judge's commentary:

Another fine one-line haiku and the wonderful use of "cornea by cornea" to focus on the mirroring qualities of all the elements at play. We can read many different links and connections into the glass lenses in the image and the humans on board the train. With the movement in the haiku we are taken along by the swirling effect of the train as it rushes past.

Full results:  https://australianhaikusociety.org/2017/10/22/ahs-spring-haiga-kukai-non-seasonal-results-with-comments-by-judge-ron-moss/#more-10208

Call for submissions: https://australianhaikusociety.org/2017/09/22/call-for-submissions-ahs-spring-haiga-kukai-non-seasonal/

Original Notification of AHS Spring 2017 Haiga Kukai: https://australianhaikusociety.org/2017/09/15/prior-notification-of-spring-2017-haiga-kukai/

More about one line haiku aka "monoku":
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/travelling-single-line-of-haiku-one.html
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/all-those-red-apples-travelling.html

Alan regularly gives online courses as part of Call of the Page including haiku.
https://www.callofthepage.org/learning/