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)

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Asahi Shimbun (Japanese newspaper) publication of forgotten rain haiku by Alan Summers

Image from Asahi Shimbun (Illustration by Mitsuaki Kojima)

Forgotten rain
the wedding ring left
in a doll’s house

Alan Summers

Publication Credit: ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK (Japan 2014)

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