a selection of haiku about rain
by Alan Summers
rain-soaked wind
the weather-worn notice
peels back more
Alan Summers
Award credit: Judges’ favorites
Selected Haiku
6th annual Golden Haiku Competition (The Golden Triangle Business Improvement District, Washington DC, USA) 2019
fairy wasps they exist the tension of rain
on rain on rain
Alan Summers
Glint ePamphlet collection by Alan Summers
Proletaria politics philosophy phenomena (February 2020)
the undersong of the light falling rain
Alan Summers
Half A Rainbow
Haiku Nook: An Anthology ed. Jacob Salzer & The Nook Editorial Staff (2020)
Dedicated to Rachel Sutcliffe (1977-2019)
I start to rain
and into falling leaves
my childhood
Alan Summers
Troutswirl - The Haiku Foundation -
A Sense of Place: HIKING TRAIL – sight ed. KJMunro
Anthology credit:
All the Way Home: Aging in Haiku (2019)
ed. Robert Epstein
Middle Island Press (18 Oct. 2019)
ISBN-10: 173412542 ISBN-13: 978-1734125429
mosaic rain:
the cul de sac
of shadow
after Sylvia Plath
Alan Summers
Human/Kind Journal issue 1.6 (June 2019)
IT’S THE SMALL THINGS . . . haibun monobun
Collaborative collection:
The Comfort of Crows
Hifsa Ashraf and Alan Summers
(Velvet Dusk Publishing, December 2019)
nighthawks...
the sodium streets
sizzle in its rain
after Hopper
Alan Summers
Publication Credit: Weird Laburnum (September 2019)
From The After Party haiku sequence
ekphrastic haiku
backend rain…
a pair of canvas boots
framed by the door
Note: backend = autumn rain (North of England)
Alan Summers
Publication credit: Weird Laburnum ed. Michael O’Brien (August 2019)
From the haibun: Van Gogh’s combat fatigues
Published on the morning of the last day of the Tate Britain Van Gogh and British Painters exhibition
THE EY EXHIBITION VAN GOGH AND BRITAIN 27 MARCH – 11 AUGUST 2019:
sidewalk waltz
the aroma of rain
and coffee
Alan Summers
The Haiku Foundation: A Sense of Place: CITY SIDEWALK – smell
ed. KJMunro (December 2018)
lone crow
rain crosses
the moon
Alan Summers
ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK (Japan)
ed. David McMurray (June 2018)
night train
each window carries
its own little rain
Alan Summers
Brass Bell: a haiku journal (September 2017)
the scent of rain
birdsong stretches
as far as Mars
Alan Summers
Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum Selected Haiku Collection (Japan 2017)
Feature:
#AtoZBlogChallenge on Poetry Roundabout and Liz Brownlee
A TO Z BLOG CHALLENGE 2018 S is for Haiku Poet Alan Summers, #AtoZChallenge #ZtoA
the rain
almost a friend
this funeral
Alan Summers
Publication credits: Azami #28 (Japan 1995); Snapshots 4 (1998); First Australian online Anthology (October 1999): Blithe Spirit article On minimalism and other things DJ Peel Vol 9 No.3 (1999); tempslibre (2001); Cornell University, Mann Library, U.S.A. Poet of the Month (October 2001); The Omnibus Anthology, haiku and senryu (Hub Editions Hub Haiku series 2001); Hidden (British Haiku Society Anthology 2002); The New Haiku (Snapshot Press, 2002); First Australian Haiku Anthology (2003); Birmingham Words Magazine Issue 3 (Autumn 2004); seven magazine feature: “Three lines of simple beauty” (2006); tempslibre (2010); Blogging Along Tobacco Road: Alan Summers - Three Questions (2010); Travelogue on World Haiku Festival 2002 , Part 2 (Akita International Haiku Network 2010); The Temple Bell Stops: Contemporary Poems of Grief, Loss and Change (Modern English Tanka Press 2012); THFhaiku app for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch (2011); The In-Between Season (With Words Pamphlet Series 2012)
Award credit:
Highly Commended, Haiku Collection Competition, (Snapshot Press 1998)
Joint 9th Best of Issue, Snapshot Five (1999)
long hard rain my compass your true north
Alan Summers
Publication credits: Frogpond
36.1 • 2013
this small ache and all the rain too robinsong
Alan Summers
Publication credits: Modern
Haiku vol. 44.1 winter/spring 2013
cabbage butterflies—
a man with an umbrella
when there's no rain
Alan Summers
Publication Credits: Under the Basho Vol 1.1 Autumn 2013
early morning rain
the sound between
the sound
Alan Summers
Publication Credits:
Asahi Shimbun (Japan 2013)
Cloud kigo
a light rain patters across
your nightingale floors
Alan Summers
Publication Credits:
Asahi Shimbun (Japan 2013)
“In search of the ultimate season word to associate with
clouds, Alan Summers observes how “rain writes its own story across floorboards
that sing like a bird.”
David McMurray is professor of intercultural studies
at The International University of Kagoshima where he lectures on international
haiku. At the Graduate School he supervises students who research haiku. He is
a correspondent school teacher of Haiku in English for the Asahi Culture Center
in Tokyo.
the scent of rain-
I stretch the truth
into clouds
Alan Summers
Publication Credits:
Blithe Spirit 23.2. 2013
blue sky rain
the sunshine leaks
from pavements
from White Dust Ghosts – a series of haiku poems by Alan Summers
Alan Summers
Publication Credits: (Tribe issue 22, 2013)
lullaby of rain
another pinch of saffron
in the pumpkin soup
Alan Summers
Publication credits: Heron’s
Nest (Volume XIV, Number 4 2012 December 2012); The Haiku Calendar 2014 (Snapshot Press, 2013)
Anthology: "The Vast Sky, An International Anthology of Contemporary
Haiku"
after a quote from Sekito Kisen, "The vast sky is not hindered
by the floating clouds." (2013)
Award Credits:
Editors' Choices, Heron’s Nest (Volume XIV, Number 4: Dec. 2012)
Runner-up,
The Haiku Calendar Competition 2013
velum clouds–
through the small hours
this writing in rain
Alan Summers
Publication credits:
Haiku Novine ISSN 1451-3889 (2012)
toy suns
the winter-dark rain
smashes the city
Alan Summers
Publication credits:
Blithe Spirit (vol 23 no. 4 November 2012)
Does Fish-God
Know (YTBN Press 2012) ISBN-13: 9781479211043 / ISBN-10: 1479211044
rain on the river–
when does white become
its darkest colour
Alan Summers
Publication credits:
Haiku News (Vol. 1 No. 38 2012)
drifting rain
my hundred autumn rooms
to be alone
Alan Summers
Publication Credits:
Mainichi Shimbun (Japan 2012)
Award: Best of Mainichi 2012 (Japan 2013)
does fish-god know?
rain can fall
from clear blue skies
the names of rain
a blackbird’s subsong
into dusk
Alan Summers
Publication credits:
Haiku News Vol. 1 No. 35 (2012)
hard-blue sky
the ghost touch of rain
on sloe-eyed horses
Alan Summers
Publication credits: Blithe
Spirit (Vol 22 No. 3 2012)
rain on the river the jesus star shifting
Alan Summers
Publication credits:
Janice M Bostok Haiku Prize 2012 Anthology Evening Breeze
bouncing rain
I force the hotel window
a little wider
Alan Summers
Publication credits:
Blithe Spirit March 2012; Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press
2012)
the drum of the rain ghosting bare hands
Alan Summers
Publication Credits: Under the Basho Vol 1.1 Autumn 2013
rain
clouds
conversations shift around
the train carriage
Alan Summers
Publication credits: Mainichi
Shimbun (Japan 2011)
Award Credits: Honourable
Mention Best of Mainichi 2011
this delicate rain
the petal makes a typo
of a gravestone date
Alan Summers
Publication credits:
tinywords, haiku & other small poems ( 2011)
rain ceases
as I leave the sycamore...
one more kingfisher
Alan Summers
Publication credits: Blithe Spirit vol. 14 no. 4 (2004)
late september rain
cutting through the lane
and the mist
Alan Summers
Publication credits: in a heron’s eye
(Paper Wasp 2000)
the geraniums
flowering again
just before the rain
Note: Queensland (Australia) poem
Alan Summers
Publication credits: Potpourri Publications (USA 1994)
Collection: sundog, an australian
year, (sunfast press 1997 reprinted 1998)
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