Snow haiku by Alan Summers (South West England, Britain/U.K) produced and performed by Steve Hodge (White Lake, Michigan USA)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B35Wvn__tCjsNlk0ZDJmRWprSW8/view?usp=drive_web

Alan Summers Snow.mov
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B35Wvn__tCjsNlk0ZDJmRWprSW8/view?usp=drive_web

An MP4 Quicktime Movie of a video Steve Hodge produced made up of snow haiku by Alan Summers. The piano performance is also by Steve Hodge:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B35Wvn__tCjsNlk0ZDJmRWprSW8/view?usp=drive_web

Steve says: 

The routes I usually walk, or ride my bike on, are too snow-covered and icy for me to safely use here in Michigan until March, so I often take the time to create projects such as this at this time of year. 

The music in the attached video is my performance of a lullaby composed by Friedrich Burgmuller in 1858, which is in the public domain. 

The descending phrases heard beneath the melody throughout the piece have always put me in mind of falling snow. 

You can read some of Steve's wonderful haiku, including ones about snow, at this weblink: http://livinghaikuanthology.com/poet-portfolios/373-h-poets/hodge,-steve.html

Steve Hodge is the editor of Prune Juice magazine: https://prunejuice.wordpress.com/about/

Alan Summers - haiku collected and updated for 2016 in the world's largest database for haiku: The Living Haiku Anthology

A selection of my haiku has been updated to give a cross section from 1994 to January of this year:

http://livinghaikuanthology.com/surnames-s/46-alan-summers.html

From the romantic:

The Night Train


of paper rock scissors


you sleep into me

 

Anthology Credit: c.2.2. Anthology of short-verse ed. Brendan Slater & Alan Summers

(Yet To Be Named Free Press 2013)

To undertones of Greek mythology:

night of small colour


a part of the underworld


becomes one heron

 

Publication Credit: Modern Haiku Vol. 45.2  Summer 2014

Anthology credit: Haiku 2015 (Modern Haiku Press, 2015)

And other old tales:

old tales

moon-bright leaves

jostle the breeze

 

Publication Credit:

Wild Plum 1:1 (Spring & Summer 2015)

Dreams, childhood, magic, the battle torn, train journeys, and when we are graced, the love of birdsong, love and pain, and more:

snowline

the topography

of tears

 

Publication Credit: Edge - BHS Anthology 2015

And the sheer beauty of natural scenery where we like being made to feel small, and in awe:

far off Helvellyn snow the nouns of verbs 

 

Publication Credit: Blithe Spirit 25.4 (2015)

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Christmas, Winter, and snow - haiku by Alan Summers

Merry Christmas and Holidays to everyone around the World from With Words!

Christmas, Winter, and snow haiku 

by Alan Summers

(online tutor of With Words)

hard frost-

the snail-hammerings

of a song thrush

Publication Credit: Muttering Thunder vol. 1, 2014 

northern lights 

a boy makes a ladder 

out of his telescope  

Publication Credit: Blithe Spirit 24.3 (August 2014)

dark snow the night begins its winter

Publication Credit:   brass bell: a haiku journal (Winter 2014)

waxing ice moon

through the alleys

a market sets up

Publications credits: Simply Haiku: September 2003, Vol. 1, No. 3

the limbs of trees broken Snow Moon

Publication Credit: Derafsh-e Mehr Issue#4 Winter & Spring 2014

Gare du Nord shifting art deco snow

Publication Credit:   brass bell: a haiku journal

One-Line Haiku curated by Zee Zahava (Monday, September 1, 2014)

Old Man’s Beard a cyclist wobbles the length of it

Publications credits: a handful of stones (1^st February 2011); A Blackbird Sings, a small stone anthology ISBN 978-0-9571584-2-9 ed.  Fiona Robyn & Kaspalita Thompson (Woodsmoke Press 2012)

NOTE:

Clematis vitalba L. is the UK's only native Clematis. Commonly known as 'Old Man's Beard', it can be seen scrambling through hedgerows and trees along the roadside, and is especially obvious in the winter months. Its Latin name refers to its flower colour and climbing habit (alba = white; clematis = climbing; vitalba = white vine). One or two other Clematis species sometimes escape from gardens and become established in the wild. Of these only Clematis flammula bears any resemblance but its flowers are somewhat larger than those of C. vitalba and pure white, and its leaves are a different shape (bi-pinnate).

David Morgan, The Clematis, the journal of the British Clematis Society, Winter 2002

dark morning...

the sushi bar opens up

for the train station

Publications credits: Aesthetics, (Bath Spa University 2007); Haiku Friends Vol. 3  ed. Masaharu Hirata (Japan, Osaka 2009)

Oxford Street

the sweet chestnut vendor’s

blackened fingers

Publications credits: Snapshot Press Calendar 2011

Award credit: Runner up, Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar 2010

a flink of cows

the blue before a night

of falling snow

n.b. Twelve cows are a flink

Publication Credit: Blithe Spirit 2014

twilight on snow shadows deepen the grip of stars

Publication Credit: Frogpond 37:2, the spring/summer issue (2014)

virgin snow

a fox makes prints

for the morning

Publications credits: 

Icebox, Hailstone Haiku Circle Japan (Japan, 2010); a little help from my friends (Red Dragonfly ePamphlet 2011); The Haiku Calendar 2012 (Snapshot Press); fox dreams ed. Aubrie Cox (April 2012); Inking Bitterns (Gert Macky Books December, 2013) 

ISBN-10: 0992678315 ISBN-13: 978-0992678319

Award credits: 

Runner Up, The Haiku Calendar Competition 2011 (Snapshot Press)

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