haiku
by Alan Summers
all my mistakes
each click of the pen
the robin moves
traffic jam
a driver fingers the breeze
through the sunroof
summer wind
a sparrow re-rights itself
at the peanut cage
the rain
almost a friend
this funeral
snowing
through the blizzard
particles of me
From:
Prints for the MorningCopyright ©:
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About Alan Summers
Biography
Alan Summers, born London, England, is a Japan Times award-winning writer for haiku and renga; 2009 Embassy of Japan 'Japan-UK 150' haiku & renga roving poet-in-residence. He’s the founder of With Words, a UK-based provider of quality literature, education and literacy projects, often based around the Japanese genres., Lead poet (and creator) of The 1000 Verse Renga Project supported by the BBC Poetry Season; and lead poet for Hull Global Renga (3000 verses over a six month residency) in the City of Hull, U.K., Alan appears in over 75 anthologies and in fifteen languages, including British Sign Language, Haiku Collections: Prints for the Morning: 1994-2011 (Snapshot Press 2012); The Sneeze of a One-eyed Dog (With Words gendai haiku pamphlet, Autumn 2011); Sundog Haiku Journal: an Australian Year (Sunfast Press 1997 reprinted 1998); Moonlighting British Haiku Society Pamphlet (1996)., Anthology Co-Editor: The Poetic Image - Haiku and Photography (Birmingham Words/ National Academy of Writing Pamphlet 2006); Fifty-Seven Damn Good Haiku by a Bunch of Our Friends published by Press Here ISBN 978-1-878798-31-2 (2010 USA); Parade of Life: Poems inspired by Japanese Prints ISBN: 09539234-2-8 (Poetry Can/Bristol Museum and Art Gallery/Japan21 2002).
