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super blue blood moon
the supermoon trilogy
The moon has always played a powerful part in haikai literature, from the time of the renga linked verses poetry to Matsuo Basho's renku linked haikai verses, and his 'standalone hokku'.
Here are a few of my own moon haiku
above the mountain
earth’s shadow
blocks a moon
Alan Summers
Note: eclipse of the moon, Queensland, Australia, Friday 4th June 1993
Publication credits: Frogpond (Summer 1994) ed. Elisabeth Searle Lamb
Paid Feature: Fellowship of Australian Writers, Queensland, Scope magazine feature (1994)
bleu roi
a thousand flying foxes
quarter moon
Alan Summers
Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac,
Kodansha International (1996)
Tribute: The Heron’s Nest Volume X, Number 4: December, 2008 Celebrating Bill Higginson http://www.theheronsnest.com/haiku/1004F2116/thn_issue.t1.html#POEM9
escape velocity
the moon pulls oceans
behind Apollo 11
Alan Summers
Commission: “Rocket Dreams”
Read/performed U.K. National Poetry Day October 4th 2007 with Space Historian Piers Bizony and NASA images, as part of World Space Week
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low over the hill
a red moon waxes ...
the empty road ahead
Alan Summers
Haiku International #22 (Tokyo 1996)
Pamphlet: Moonlighting, Intimations Pamphlet Series BHS Profile, (1996)
Anthology: Azami Special Edition, Japan, ed. Alan Summers (1997)
Collection: sundog haiku journal: an australian year (sunfast press 1997 reprinted 1998)
february moon
not one flying fox
snared on its horns
Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
Alan Summers
Azami #55 (Japan 1999)
february moon
not one single flying fox snared
on its horns
Alan Summers
Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac, Kodansha International ed. William J. Higginson (1996)
Far North Queensland
a dingo’s call picked up-
the moonless night
Alan Summers
Modern Haiku (199-) ed. Bob Spiess
getting drunk
with the ripe moon
cadmium blues
Alan Summers
haijinx volume IV, issue 1 (2011)
Anthology: Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)
blue moon
you believe there's nothing
up my sleeve
you believe there's nothing
up my sleeve
Alan Summers
The Haiku Foundation haiku app for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch (2011)
Blue Moon we don't do one-sided conversations
Alan Summers
Prune Juice issue 9 July 15th 2012
the camp fire burns the misty moon halved by thin cloud
Alan Summers
Presence # 4 (May 1997) ISSN 1366-5367
Anthology:
Stepping Stones: a way into haiku ed. Martin Lucas
ISBN 978-0-9522397-9-6 (British Haiku Society 2007)
the moon is broken
Battersea Power Station
from a train window
Alan Summers
Award credit:
1st Prize, World Monuments Fund 2012 Haiku Contest winner
Magnetic Island–
possums take the winter moon
from tourists
Alan Summers
Sea Bandits ed Aubrie Cox (2012)
night jasmine
trying to find it...
the yellow half moon
Alan Summers
Presence 14 (2001)
Feature: Mann Library, Cornell University, U.S.A. "Daily Haiku" poet October 2001
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chestnut moon shifting in my memory ghost floors
Alan Summers
Roadrunner 12.3 (December 2012); LAKEVIEW International Journal of Literature and Arts Vol.1, No.1 February 2013
night-entangled moons treading judas floors
Alan Summers
Dark Pens, a journal of moon haiku ed. Chase Gagnon (1.1. 2013) 1st Issue March 2013
Blood Moon
my Rhesus positive rising
Alan Summers
Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)
different utopia
Quasimodo’s private moon
over Notre Dame
Alan Summers
Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)
Sailor Moon
your first sērā fuku
saves the world
Alan Summers
Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)
day moon
a first burn scar
off the oven tray
Alan Summers
Does Fish-God Know (YTBN 2012)
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Perilune
Cheshire Moon the cat grins in Farsi
eight thousand li of cloud and moon questions mark
Oak Moon the carpenter's calluses chafing
butterfly dreaming man the Black Butterfly Moon
window-rattling moon I stay up and turn blue
Black Moon my finders keepers Valentine
Alan Summers
Blithe Spirit 23.2. 2013
falling snow moon
the slowness of shadows
caught in branches
the slowness of shadows
caught in branches
Alan Summers
Presence #47 (2012); Brass Bell Showcase: Alan Summers (July 2015)
a little curve
when the buffalo bellow
dying moon
when the buffalo bellow
dying moon
Alan Summers
Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts Vol.1, No.2 August 2013
Article: The Moon is Broken: Juxtaposition in haiku article Scope vol. 60 no. 3 (FAWQ magazine April 2014)
night-tide
the rook takes back
its moon
the rook takes back
its moon
Alan Summers
Acorn #31 2013
Article: The Moon is Broken: Juxtaposition in haiku article Scope vol. 60 no. 3 (FAWQ magazine April 2014)
an up-too-late moon
the blackbird whispers its song
as I stumble home
Alan Summers
Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum,
2013 Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English (Japan)
Night clouds
a spider shows me
the harvest moon
Alan Summers
October 04, 2013 ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK (Japan)
bomber moon–
all those hiding places
within you
Alan Summers
Tribe issue 22 (October 2013)
the limbs of trees broken Snow Moon
Alan Summers
Derafsh-e Mehr Issue #4 Winter & Spring 2014
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how does this swan
sleep like a diamond
frosted moon
sleep like a diamond
frosted moon
Alan Summers
Frozen Butterfly (October 2014)
falling clouds
the snow gathering
bits of moon
Alan Summers
hedgerow: a journal of small poems (Issue 1, September 2014)
the rhythm of rain
a toad sleeps deep
with her moon
Alan Summers
Brass Bell: a haiku journal
Moon Haiku issue: Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Ganesha's moon
the cabbie’s last customer
smells of mint tea
Alan Summers
brass bell: a haiku journal Tea Haiku / Haiku Tea issue November 2014
blue moon-
my sweet potato curry
song to the moths
Alan Summers
Scope vol. 60 no. 9 (FAWQ magazine October 2014 Australia)
Anthology credit: EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2016 Foodcrop Haiku
derelict church the moon showing its bomb damage
Alan Summers (Hedgerow 100)
hunter's moon
the runes of mice
in its wake
Award Credit: Best of Mainichi 2014 (Japan)
night crows
the haystacks lose
their moonlight
Publication Credit:
Wild Plum Spring & Summer 2015 issue of Wild Plum (release date - March 1)
Anthology Credits:
Behind the Tree Line
(Selected haiku from the Wild Plum - a haiku journal and the Wild Plum Haiku Contest 2015)
Haiku 2016
ed. Scott Metz & Lee Gurga
Modern Haiku Press, 2016
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old tales
moon-bright leaves
jostle the breeze
Alan Summers
Wild Plum 1:1 (Spring & Summer 2015)
corn moon
the jackdaw shifts
its iris
Alan Summers
Asahi Shimbun (International Haiku Day April 17th 2015)
a packet of souls
the day moon becomes
a harbinger
Alan Summers
Ekphrastic response to Installation by Fairley Barnes
May 26, 2015
stick moon
we move our bones
in unison
Alan Summers
Feature: Brass Bell: Alan Summers
July 2015 issue of brass bell, featuring poems by Alan Summers
Ekphrastic response to an Installation by Fairley Barnes
May 26, 2015
Out of Many, One
By Jacob Salzer
The old saying: “a picture is worth a thousand words” has an inverse statement that seems equally true: “a word can paint a thousand pictures.” To better illustrate this: I just googled the word snow and found: about 851,000,000 results (0.51 seconds). Part of the beauty of haiku is how many different images can arise from reading a single word. In turn, the practice of reading and writing haiku has individual and universal aspects that I see as two parts of one life. It turns out, our sense of individuality is not as concrete as it may seem. Here is the beauty of haiku and collaborative poetry: the writer and the reader have become one, through Being, through haiku. We realize we are connected. It is a connection that bypasses the whole mind:
stick moon
we move our bones
in unison
— Alan Summers
Brass Bell, July 2015
Brass Bell, July 2015
small-hours-train the pink suitcase of moon shadows
Alan Summers
Brass Bell September 2015 Issue: One-Line Haiku
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| war moon haiku &photo artwork©Alan Summers 2015-2018 |
war moon
the flickering of humans
at birdsong
Alan Summers
Asahi Shimbun (Japan 2015)
the blood moon issue, Oct 2 for the eclipse of 9/28
David McMurry:
“brilliant haiku”
Under the Basho Poets' Personal Best (November 2015)
Anthology Credit: Heart Breaths: Book of Contemporary Haiku ed. Jean LeBlanc
ISBN: 9789385945038
seed moon
the other side
of the wind
Alan Summers
Publication Credit: Frozen Butterfly issue 3 October 2015
Anthology credit: EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2016 Foodcrop Haiku
crow-flecked
the jack of all moons
the jack of all moons
rising rising
Alan Summers
Scope Vol 62 No 1 (The magazine of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (Qld) Inc February 2016)
limned clouds
the beat of regular rain
the beat of regular rain
on moon-gentians
Alan Summers
Yanty’s Butterfly 2016
ed. Jacob Salzer and The Nook Editorial Staff
spider silk...
to catch a river
moon shifting
Alan Summers
hedgerow: a journal of small poems issue #53 (October 30, 2015
moonlighting crows in other colors
Alan Summers
Publication Credit: Frogpond (39:1) Winter Issue
Anthology: Full of Moonlight: Haiku Society of America 2016 Members' Anthology (Feb 2017) ed. David Grayson
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Ticking Moon
conjugating verbs
across a battlefield
matins moon
a child looms large
in collerateral damages
hunkered moon
transcribed notes
in every hymn sheet
politicians moon
a people’s moon
the song of blackbirds
in every trench
cobweb moon
a man’s opening lines
fill with mortar
a list of people
paper the tunnels
neglected moon
cullingmoonmanycolorsuniform
we learn to adjust
the clocks of our hands
borrowed moon
Alan Summers
Publication Credit: Bones - journal for contemporary haiku no. 7 July 15th 2015
Anthology Credit: Heart Breaths: Book of Contemporary Haiku ed. Jean LeBlanc
ISBN: 9789385945038
day moon
a crow slices
half of it
Alan Summers
moongarlic issue 5 November 2015
everyone went to the moon
a softness of morning stars
Alan Summers
Yanty’s Butterfly 2016 Haiku Nook Anthology
ed. Jacob Salzer and The Nook Editorial Staff
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Alan & Karen run online courses in haiku; haibun; shahai; tanka; tanka story (aka tanka prose); senryu; and ekphrastic courses
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