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Sunday, August 23, 2015

A Selection of haiku by Alan Summers



Crows at an art exhibition, Kings Place, London photograph through window glass by Alan Summers



a scarecrow’s journey
even the leaves become
butterfly dreams

Publication Credit:
Scope (FAWQ  magazine July 2015 vol. 61 no. 6)




wildflowers adding a little evening to the daylight

Publication Credit:  Presence #52 (2015)





700,000 olive trees remember the butterfly

Publication Credit: 
Bones - journal for contemporary haiku issue 7 July 15th 2015





dandelion fluff
I lose count of my time
on this earth


Publication Credit:  Brass Bell July 2015 Showcase





Unforgiving rain I write my next epitaph in a dream

Publication Credit: Asahi Shimbun (Japan, July 31)





we learn to adjust
the clocks of our hands
borrowed moon

Publication Credit: 
sequence: Bones - journal for contemporary haiku no. 7 July 15th 2015





cobweb moon
a man’s opening lines
fill with mortar

Publication Credit: 
sequence: Bones - journal for contemporary haiku issue 7 July 15th 2015




conjugating verbs
across a battlefield
matins moon

Publication Credit: 
sequence: Bones - journal for contemporary haiku issue 7 July 15th 2015





Minnelli's films
the spirits of long lost actors
across a dance floor

Publication Credit: Asahi Shimbun (Japan, August 21st 2015)





the sound dome of bees
how many shades of color
can a human see

Selected by Isamu Hashimoto
Publication Credit: Mainichi Shimbun (Japan, July 7, 2015)




The colour rain
runs through our blood types
in wood and iron

Publication Credit: Asahi Shimbun (Japan, July 2015)





family home
the grain of the wood
enters his hands

Publication Credit: 
Prune Juice, Journal of Senryu, Kyoka, Haibun & Haiga, Issue Sixteen: July, 2015




mistfall
the swansongs
of orb spiders

Publication Credit:
Scope (FAWQ  magazine July 2015 vol. 61 no. 6)





quickening its rain
through the eye of a needle
the dragonfly’s glint

Publication Credit:
Scope (FAWQ  magazine July 2015 vol. 61 no. 6)




stray casuality
my tears reflected
as bandages

Publication Credit:
Ekphrastic haiku for Art Installation by Fairley Barnes and Call for Haiku Response





garden chores
I dig another timezone
from the backyard

Publication Credit:  Mainichi Shimbun (Japan, March 31st 2015)




corn moon
the jackdaw shifts
its iris

Publication Credit:  
Asahi Shimbun (International Haiku Day April 17th 2015); EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2015, The Year of Light 



Note:
Image taken by Alan Summers through the window

Image taken by Alan Summers through the window

Pangolin London exhibited a varied selection of works at the Kings Place building that celebrated the skills of modern British and contemporary sculptors.



Monday, March 18, 2013

16th, 17th, and 18th days of Alan Summers as virtual haiku poet in residence at Cornell University USA

Cornell University, Mann Library 
http://haiku.mannlib.cornell.edu/category/author/alam-summers/



snowing through the blizzard particles of me

Alan Summers



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)

Award credits:
Winner, The Haiku Calendar Competition 2011 (Snapshot Press)







Iron Press U.K. orders:
http://www.ironpress.co.uk/books/humours.html

International orders (top right alter currencies to US$ or Euros):
http://www.inpressbooks.co.uk/the-humours-of-haiku/












The In-Between Season (With Words Haiku Pamphlet Series 2012)


The pamphlet will be available as an eBook later in 2013
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/in-between-season-haiku-pamphlet-will.html
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/haiku-from-alan-summerss-recently.html








dandelion wind
mending bridges
in the mist


Alan Summers

Publications credits:

Blithe Spirit (British Haiku Society Journal Vol 22 No. 3 2012); Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)


باد پر قاصدک
مرمت کردن پل
در غبار

bade por ghasdak
maremat kardan pol
dar ghobar


Farsi and romanised Farsi translations by Reza Aerabi





first quarter moon
dancing pinheads burst
into new angel DNA


Alan Summers

Publications credits:

Asahi Shimbun (Japan, 2012); Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)





Does Fish-God Know:
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/does-fish-god-know-haiku-collection-by.html
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/new-book-review-of-does-fish-god-know.html
http://www.yettobenamedfreepress.org/p/does-fish-god-know.html