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.

pangolinlondon.com

A selection of haiku, by Alan Summers, published by Asahi Shimbun, Japan, between 2010 and 2013

 

The Asahi Shimbun literally Morning Sun Newspaper, is one of the five national newspapers in Japan. Its circulation, which was 7.96 million for its morning edition and 3.1 million for its evening edition as of June 2010, was second behind that of Yomiuri Shimbun.

Monet's Haystacks At Chailly 1865

Monet's Haystacks

a group of crows tug

at twilight

rook chatter
tracking each snowflake
to the end

first quarter moon
dancing pinheads burst
into new angel DNA

Also published in Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)

http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/does-fish-god-know-haiku-collection-by.html









river festival  
just a birdsong afternoon  
and talk of hedgehogs

Fraser Island
the pre-sunset whine
of mosquitoes

Fraser Island: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser_Island

Upolu Cay
my own skeletons
unearthing

About Michaelmas and Upolu

www.nprsr.qld.gov.au/parks/michaelmas-upolu-cays/about.html

green clouds
the scarecrow worries
a loose thread

Maple moon

Grandmother’s recipe

settles in the pan

This was also published by the Hailstone Haiku Group, Japan

Early morning rain

the sound between

the sound

Night clouds

a spider shows me

the harvest moon

Cloud kigo

a light rain patters across

your nightingale floors

"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. I like the idea of the cloud kigo. Readers will too. It is always my pleasure to work with you on haiku.”  David McMurray, Asahi Shimbun

David McMurray has been writing the Asahi Haikuist Network column since April 1995, first for the Asahi Evening News. He is also the editor of OUTREACH, a bi-monthly column featuring international teachers in The Language Teacher of the Japan Association for Language Teacher (JALT).

He 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.

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