The Art of Haiku
| Selections from Ukku Spring Haiku 2006 |
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busy traffic- a girls spins in bubbles she's made by the road |
 snow shower... indoors but I'm reminded of a Charles Chaplin film cold wet bench a little more to wait for the train |
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fat flakes the snow fades to the colour of the dress shop roof |
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tossed out long ago the red shirt becoming pink with snow I'm sorry, but the snow is coming down thick n'fast in Bradford-on-Avon, and I'm like a kid when it snows. Got out of my jimjams now, and puttin' on my snow boarding jacket! brrrrrrrrrr the snow still comin' down in lovely fat flakes, straight down, spiralling, one direction t'other, brilliant! |
 granite slabs so cool under my feet— Tokyo station frogs! image © Alan Summers 2002 |
 Crow and me were part of THE HUMAN ZOO with taxi driver/performance artist/performance prose raconteur Lee Coombes. We were taking turns behind the window of a shut down shop as part of the Bath Fringe Festival. So bear in mind, this rather damp and rainy 'almost spring' day that any empty shop fronts might harbour me, or crow, or a leotard wielding masked wrestler —Lee. caffeine overload— Crow orders imported lager and fizzy pop for me |
 image © Naked Haijin Productions near Ashino, Japan The poet monk Saigyō immortalized a certain willow in poetry. saigyō's willow - the sound of purple with a tiny frog |
 dusk at the golf club part of a marker pole a tawny frogmouth |
 image © With Words 2005 Spring Equinox— the pre-Winter footage of earthquake Kashmir low over the hill a red moon waxes ... the empty road ahead Please consider visiting, and even giving a tiny donation to Islamic Relief U.K. |
 image © Naked Haijin Productions warmer longer days- it's too good to spend indoors doing spring cleaning |
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rain & then hail just a little spring cleaning for me and the street | |
| Alan Summers | |
| Alan Summers is a Japan Times award-winning poet based in Bristol, UK. He is a visiting tutor for The Poetry School at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute. His haiku blog is Area 17 and his website is with words. |
| Angelee Deodhar | Gerald England | Laryalee Fraser | Denis M Garrison | David A Giacalone | Eric Houck Jr (1) | Eric Houck Jr (2) | Eric Houck Jr (3) | J Andrew Lockhart (1) | J Andrew Lockhart (2) |Paul David Mena | Alan Summers (1) | Alan Summers (2) | Alison Williams |
The other contributors were Aurora, John Barlow, Jason Sandford Brown, Norman Darlington, Dustin aka Texas Haijin, Eric Dutton, Little Onion, Matt Morden, RedGreenBen, Sangeet, Timothy and Yansidara.
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