A selection of haiku poems by Alan Summers in American magazine Modern Haiku

                     An Independent Journal of Haiku and Haiku Studies

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One haiku just published this Summer in Modern Haiku, and a selection of others from last year, plus a couple of oldies or mor from the 1990s.

night of small colour
a part of the underworld
becomes one heron

Alan Summers

Publication Credit: Modern Haiku Vol. 45.2  Summer 2014

this small ache and all the rain too robinsong

Alan Summers

Publications credits: Modern Haiku vol. 44.1 winter/spring 2013

ants following invisible trials the children

Alan Summers

Publication Credits: Modern Haiku  issue 44:3 (2013)

mist and dark I hold onto Little Bear

Alan Summers

Publication Credits: Modern Haiku  issue 44:3 (2013)

woodfire

flickering in the silence

corralled horses

Alan Summers

Publications credits: Modern Haiku vol. xxvi  no. 3 (1995); Moonlighting  (Intimations Pamphlet Series British Haiku Society publication, 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 (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)

Far North Queensland

a dingo’s call picked up-

the moonless night 

Alan Summers

Publications credits: Modern Haiku (199-)

web link:

Far North Queensland

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_North_Queensland




cool morning
birdsong
    light on a distant cloud

Alan Summers

Publications credits: 
Modern Haiku, (1999); Azami Haiku in English Commemorative Issue  (2000); Birmingham Words Magazine Issue 3 (Autumn 2004); Haiku Friends Vol. 3 ed. Masaharu Hirata (Japan 2009)

Modern Haiku Summer 2014 backcover.JPG

Two of my haiku mentioned in the Best of Mainichi Shimbun (newspaper) haiku columns for 2013 by Isamu Hashimoto

Circulation and Distribution of the Mainichi Shimbun
http://macs.mainichi.co.jp/english/03.html

Mainichi Shimbun 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainichi_Shimbun  

Alan Summers, and Call of the Page, offer regular and popular online courses in haiku; tanka; and other related genres: www.callofthepage.org

For further information, please do not hesitate to contact Karen at: admin@callofthepage.org

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A little selection of haiku poems by Alan Summers

breaking up–
the winter landscape
of sunlit horses


Alan Summers
Selected by Isamu Hashimoto  November 04, 2013 (Mainichi Japan); Best of Mainichi 2013



long rainy season
another song thrush
returns to itself


Alan Summers
Publication Credit: Acorn Issue #32 Spring 2014




a cluster of grasshoppers
unravel
the rain shadow


Alan Summers
Publication Credit: NOON | journal of the short poem ISSUE 8 (January 2014) ISSN 2188-2967




Sacred Chao...
the winter duck keeps
its circle of water

Alan Summers
Publication Credit:  Blithe Spirit 24.1 (2014)
sacred chao: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism#Sacred_Chao




the grass grows dark
a lamentation of swans
shape my world

Alan Summers
Publication Credit:  Blithe Spirit 24.1 (2014)



my amber resin exit button


Alan Summers
moongarlic E-zine, Issue: 1 November 2013 ISSN 2052-675X



soft desert rain
the droppings of leaf-hopper insects
from the tamarisk tree

Alan Summers
Publication Credit: brass bell: a haiku journal issue 1 April 2014




glass waste
the changes in rain
across birdsong


Alan Summers
Publication Credit:
Writers & Lovers Café, A HAIKU JOURNAL Hsinchu City, Taiwan Volume I, Number 1 Fall 2013 ISSN 2309-3315




leaves of the book...
travelling the blue atlas
on ember clouds


Alan Summers
Publication Credit:
cattails Premier Edition: January 2014





each of us born
with a number of breaths-
swallow flight


Alan Summers
Publication Credits:
Pulse—voices from the heart of medicine (inaugural haiku, October 2013)




epidermal tongues-
she scales my 200 bones
on a banana leaf   


Alan Summers
Publication Credits: Pulse—voices from the heart of medicine 2014


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A small selection of sky haiku by Alan Summers

haiku by Alan Summers, artwork by Angelee Deodhar

 
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each of us born

with a number of breaths-

swallow flight

Alan Summers

Publication Credits:

Pulse—voices from the heart of medicine (inaugural haiku, October 2013)

bleu roi

a thousand flying foxes

quarter the moon

Alan Summers

Anthology credit:

Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac ed. William Higginson (Kodansha International 1996)
https://www.amazon.com/Haiku-World-International-Poetry-Almanac/dp/4770020902
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Haiku-World-International-Poetry-Almanac/dp/4770020902

Tribute: The Heron’s Nest Volume X, Number 4 (December, 2008 Celebrating Bill Higginson)

down side streets -

gulls turning the sky

in and out

Alan Summers

Publication credits: Presence 10 (1999)

Anthology credits: The New Haiku (Snapshot Press, 2002); The Disjunctive Dragonfly, a New Approach to English-Language Haiku by Richard Gilbert (Red Moon Press 2012) [Elemental Animism p80]; Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years. ed. Jim Kacian, Allan Burns & Philip Rowland (W. W. Norton & Company 2013)


Feature: seagull haiku blog collection ed. laryalee fraser (2006)

Award Credit: Haiku Presence webpage Editor's Choice 5

in the river reflection

he watches himself

watch the sunset

Alan Summers

Publication credit: paper wasp (Australia, Spring/Oct 1997)

Anthology: Haiku Enlightenment ed. Gabriel Rosenstock
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009
ISBN (10): 1-4438-0521-1, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-0521-6
  
Page 54: There is a relaxed feeling of lightness – karumi – in the above haiku, employing everyday syntax and easily recognised imagery. Karumi became Basho’s ideal in the final phase of his development. Comment by Gabriel Rosenstock

bent

into his overcoat

the winter sky

Alan Summers

Publication credits: Still (1998)

Award credits: Runner up, still magazine haiku competition (1998)

malibu sunset -

a disposable camera

lifted to the birds

Alan Summers

Publication credits: In Buddha’s Temple (March 2002)

Award credits: 2nd Place, In Buddha’s Temple (2002)

misted over river

the Humber Bridge

links to Heaven

Alan Summers

Publications credits: haijinx volume IV, issue 1 (2011)

hard-blue sky

the ghost touch of rain

on sloe-eyed horses

Alan Summers

Publications credits: BlitheSpirit (Vol 22 No. 3 2012)

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Haiku poetry showcase by Alan Summers at Cornell University USA

Cornell University, Mann Library
Supporting learning and research in the life sciences, agriculture, human ecology and applied social sciences: http://mannlib.cornell.edu/

A month of haiku poems by Alan Summers 
at Cornell University USA
 
Daily Haiku series created by Tom Clausen
http://haiku.mannlib.cornell.edu/

image©Alan Summers

woodfire
flickering in the silence
corralled horses

Alan Summers


Publications credits:
Modern Haiku vol. xxvi  no. 3 (1995); Moonlighting  (Intimations Pamphlet Series British Haiku Society 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)

Note by Tom Clausen about haiku:
“Haiku has consistently appealed to me as a means of centering, focusing, sharing, and responding to a life and world bent on excess. 

As the layers of my own life have accumulated, I’ve often felt overwhelmed by both personal changes and the mass of news, information, and survival requirements that come with being human today. 

Haiku are for me a way of honoring and celebrating simple yet profound relationships that awaken in us, with a gentle and silent inner touch, a spiritual relevance that adds meaning to our lives.”
http://haiku.mannlib.cornell.edu/about/

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