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| lightning tree crow©Alan Summers 2016 |
crow haiku by Alan Summers
secret garden
a clue to everything
lies with the crows
Publication Credit:
Mainichi Shimbun (Japan) Thursday July 7th 2016
fresh breeze mixing up the crows with T-shirts
semi-published
intermittent rain I shed another crow
Publication Credits: Frogpond autumn 2013 issue (36:3)
mist haze-
a crow cleans its beak
on a rooftop aerial
Publications credits: Azami 38 (Japan 1996)
senko incense-
twig-carrying crows
after the floods
Publication Credit: Scope vol. 60 no. 3 (FAWQ magazine April 2014)
floating snowflakes -
the triple caw of a crow
within the tree
Publications credits: Mainichi Shimbun (Japan, 2008)
slow-drifting clouds
out of the lebanon cedar
a discussion of crows
Publication Credit:
the Icebox inbox – 33 (Hail Haiku Group, Japan, October 2014)
powdered snow -
a crow’s eyes above
the no parking sign
Award credit:
Joint Winner, Haiku International Association 10th Anniversary Haiku Contest 1999
Publications credits: The Mie Times, Japan (1999); Haiku International magazine (Japan 1999); Watermark: A Poet’s Notebook - Crows (2004); The In-Between Season (With Words Pamphlet Series 2012); Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)
night crows
the haystacks lose
their moonlight
Publication Credit: Wild Plum 1:1 (Spring & Summer 2015)
Anthology Credits:
Behind the Tree Line (2015 haiku anthology) ed. Gabriel SawickiHaiku 2016 ed. Scott Metz & Lee Gurga
Modern Haiku Press, 2016
100 notable haiku from 2015 selected by the editors of the award-winning
anthologies: http://www.modernhaiku.org/mhbooks/Haiku2016.html
dark news
the comfort
of crows
Publication Credit: tinywords 15.1 (March 31st 2015)
The story behind the story:
nouvelles sombres
le réconfort
des corneilles
French trans. Serge Tome
invisible crow
the lebanon tree utters
a call of three caws
Award Credit:
Honourable Mention, Only One Kagoshima Tree Haiku Contest (Japan 2015)
wheat fields…
some of the crows change
their colours
Publication Credit: Blithe Spirit 26.1 (March 2016)
Anthology credit: EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2016 Foodcrop Haiku
crow-flecked
the jack of all moons
the jack of all moons
rising rising
Publication Credit: Scope Vol 62 No 1 (The magazine of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (Qld) Inc February 2016)
petrichor
a scent of leaves
a scent of leaves
in the crow call
Publication Credit: Scope Vol 62 No 1 (The magazine of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (Qld) Inc February 2016)
petrichor:
noun: The pleasant smell that accompanies the first rain after a dry spell.
moonlighting crows in other colors
Publication Credit: Frogpond (39:1) Winter Issue
With Words student MW (USA) said:
“Crows, the original shape shifters. Masters of illusion. The crow wears many faces but I have never thought about a change in color - brilliant!"
With Words student MW (USA) said:
" 'moonlighting' is perfect, but one of the strongest words in the poem is "other"- I just feel it...You are a poet of poets!”
" 'moonlighting' is perfect, but one of the strongest words in the poem is "other"- I just feel it...You are a poet of poets!”
day moon
a crow slices
half of it
Publication credit:
moongarlic issue 5 November 2015
“Your haiku (etc) are the most diverse of any poet I have ever read - from classical to ultra-modern - your work feels both universal and new - you push the boundaries…”
Paraphrased from a longer piece by With Words student MW (published poet).
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| lightning crow©Alan Summers 2016 |
