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

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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