Best of Mainichi Shimbun (newspaper, Japan) selected haiku from Alan Summers by Isamu Hashimoto

A Selection of haiku by Alan Summers

Crows at an art exhibition, Kings Place, London photograph through window glass by Alan Summers

a scarecrow’s journey

even the leaves become

butterfly dreams

Publication Credit:

Scope (FAWQ  magazine July 2015 vol. 61 no. 6)

wildflowers adding a little evening to the daylight

Publication Credit:  Presence #52 (2015)

700,000 olive trees remember the butterfly

Publication Credit: 

Bones - journal for contemporary haiku issue 7 July 15th 2015

dandelion fluff

I lose count of my time

on this earth

Publication Credit:  Brass Bell July 2015 Showcase

Unforgiving rain I write my next epitaph in a dream

Publication Credit: Asahi Shimbun (Japan, July 31)

we learn to adjust

the clocks of our hands

borrowed moon

Publication Credit: 

sequence: Bones - journal for contemporary haiku no. 7 July 15th 2015

cobweb moon

a man’s opening lines

fill with mortar

Publication Credit: 

sequence: Bones - journal for contemporary haiku issue 7 July 15th 2015

conjugating verbs

across a battlefield

matins moon

Publication Credit: 

sequence: Bones - journal for contemporary haiku issue 7 July 15th 2015

Minnelli's films

the spirits of long lost actors

across a dance floor

Publication Credit: Asahi Shimbun (Japan, August 21st 2015)

the sound dome of bees

how many shades of color

can a human see

Selected by Isamu Hashimoto

Publication Credit: Mainichi Shimbun (Japan, July 7, 2015)

The colour rain

runs through our blood types

in wood and iron

Publication Credit: Asahi Shimbun (Japan, July 2015)

family home

the grain of the wood

enters his hands

Publication Credit: 

Prune Juice, Journal of Senryu, Kyoka, Haibun & Haiga, Issue Sixteen: July, 2015

mistfall

the swansongs

of orb spiders

Publication Credit:

Scope (FAWQ  magazine July 2015 vol. 61 no. 6)

quickening its rain

through the eye of a needle

the dragonfly’s glint

Publication Credit:

Scope (FAWQ  magazine July 2015 vol. 61 no. 6)

stray casuality

my tears reflected

as bandages

Publication Credit:

Ekphrastic haiku for Art Installation by Fairley Barnes and Call for Haiku Response

garden chores

I dig another timezone

from the backyard

Publication Credit:  Mainichi Shimbun (Japan, March 31st 2015)

corn moon

the jackdaw shifts

its iris

Publication Credit:  

Asahi Shimbun (International Haiku Day April 17th 2015); EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2015, The Year of Light 

Note:

Image taken by Alan Summers through the window

Image taken by Alan Summers through the window

Pangolin London exhibited a varied selection of works at the Kings Place building that celebrated the skills of modern British and contemporary sculptors.

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