Merry Christmas and Winter Festivities around the world from Sam the Lurcher, honorary haiku dog and haiku god!

Karen, Alan, and Sam, honorary member of Call of the Page all wish you an incredible rest of the year, and into 2020!

Call of the Page poetry courses for 2020!

https://www.callofthepage.org/courses/

We'll see you all in 2020!!!

Merry Christmas everyone, enjoy the Yuletide haiku!

Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year!!!

Alan, Karen, and Rosie

The painting is by my incredibly generous and wonderful giving mother-in-law Rosemary Jones who is doing good with a special charity helpline too.

To everyone around the world whether you are haiku poetry lovers, readers, writers, or not. 

And the wonderful United Haiku and Tanka Society officers who do so much behind the scenes as volunteers which as President of this haiku society I know only too well, and the amazing UHTS members, I thank you all!

United Haiku and Tanka Society:
http://unitedhaikuandtankasociety.com/officers-biographies

http://unitedhaikuandtankasociety.com/members-list

And to all haiku societies around the world, and to my home country British Haiku Society too, Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year!

Alan
Former BHS General Secretary

British Haiku Society
http://britishhaikusociety.org.uk/membership-new/

virgin snow

a fox makes prints

for the morning

Alan Summers

Publication credits: Icebox, Hailstone Haiku Circle, Japan (2010)

Anthology: Inking Bitterns (Gert Macky Books December, 2013)

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/170743837/inking-bitterns-poems-and-pictures-for?ref=shop_home_active_1

www.callofthepage.org

Enjoy this special snow haiku video created by Steve Hodge as a surprise gift to myself and everyone who enjoys Christmas haiku!

Snow Haiku!
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/snow-haiku-by-alan-summers-south-west.html

artwork by Dave Alderslade for Alan Summers

Dave Alderslade:

http://davidalderslade.com

http://davidalderslade.com/section654102.html

https://www.greenpebble.co.uk/collections/david-alderslade

Alan Summers - haiku collected and updated for 2016 in the world's largest database for haiku: The Living Haiku Anthology

A selection of my haiku has been updated to give a cross section from 1994 to January of this year:

http://livinghaikuanthology.com/surnames-s/46-alan-summers.html

From the romantic:

The Night Train


of paper rock scissors


you sleep into me

 

Anthology Credit: c.2.2. Anthology of short-verse ed. Brendan Slater & Alan Summers

(Yet To Be Named Free Press 2013)

To undertones of Greek mythology:

night of small colour


a part of the underworld


becomes one heron

 

Publication Credit: Modern Haiku Vol. 45.2  Summer 2014

Anthology credit: Haiku 2015 (Modern Haiku Press, 2015)

And other old tales:

old tales

moon-bright leaves

jostle the breeze

 

Publication Credit:

Wild Plum 1:1 (Spring & Summer 2015)

Dreams, childhood, magic, the battle torn, train journeys, and when we are graced, the love of birdsong, love and pain, and more:

snowline

the topography

of tears

 

Publication Credit: Edge - BHS Anthology 2015

And the sheer beauty of natural scenery where we like being made to feel small, and in awe:

far off Helvellyn snow the nouns of verbs 

 

Publication Credit: Blithe Spirit 25.4 (2015)

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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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Christmas, Winter, and snow - haiku by Alan Summers

Merry Christmas and Holidays to everyone around the World from With Words!

Christmas, Winter, and snow haiku 

by Alan Summers

(online tutor of With Words)

hard frost-

the snail-hammerings

of a song thrush

Publication Credit: Muttering Thunder vol. 1, 2014 

northern lights 

a boy makes a ladder 

out of his telescope  

Publication Credit: Blithe Spirit 24.3 (August 2014)

dark snow the night begins its winter

Publication Credit:   brass bell: a haiku journal (Winter 2014)

waxing ice moon

through the alleys

a market sets up

Publications credits: Simply Haiku: September 2003, Vol. 1, No. 3

the limbs of trees broken Snow Moon

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

Gare du Nord shifting art deco snow

Publication Credit:   brass bell: a haiku journal

One-Line Haiku curated by Zee Zahava (Monday, September 1, 2014)

Old Man’s Beard a cyclist wobbles the length of it

Publications credits: a handful of stones (1^st February 2011); A Blackbird Sings, a small stone anthology ISBN 978-0-9571584-2-9 ed.  Fiona Robyn & Kaspalita Thompson (Woodsmoke Press 2012)

NOTE:

Clematis vitalba L. is the UK's only native Clematis. Commonly known as 'Old Man's Beard', it can be seen scrambling through hedgerows and trees along the roadside, and is especially obvious in the winter months. Its Latin name refers to its flower colour and climbing habit (alba = white; clematis = climbing; vitalba = white vine). One or two other Clematis species sometimes escape from gardens and become established in the wild. Of these only Clematis flammula bears any resemblance but its flowers are somewhat larger than those of C. vitalba and pure white, and its leaves are a different shape (bi-pinnate).

David Morgan, The Clematis, the journal of the British Clematis Society, Winter 2002

dark morning...

the sushi bar opens up

for the train station

Publications credits: Aesthetics, (Bath Spa University 2007); Haiku Friends Vol. 3  ed. Masaharu Hirata (Japan, Osaka 2009)

Oxford Street

the sweet chestnut vendor’s

blackened fingers

Publications credits: Snapshot Press Calendar 2011

Award credit: Runner up, Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar 2010

a flink of cows

the blue before a night

of falling snow

n.b. Twelve cows are a flink

Publication Credit: Blithe Spirit 2014

twilight on snow shadows deepen the grip of stars

Publication Credit: Frogpond 37:2, the spring/summer issue (2014)

virgin snow

a fox makes prints

for the morning

Publications credits: 

Icebox, Hailstone Haiku Circle Japan (Japan, 2010); a little help from my friends (Red Dragonfly ePamphlet 2011); The Haiku Calendar 2012 (Snapshot Press); fox dreams ed. Aubrie Cox (April 2012); Inking Bitterns (Gert Macky Books December, 2013) 

ISBN-10: 0992678315 ISBN-13: 978-0992678319

Award credits: 

Runner Up, The Haiku Calendar Competition 2011 (Snapshot Press)

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