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1 month ago @ tinywords - Submissions to tinywor... · 0 replies · +1 points

ring galaxy forgive me the plums so cold

after WCW

Alan Summers

6 months ago @ tinywords - tinywords.com/2023/09/... · 0 replies · +2 points

blue moon
the scratch and skip
of vinyl records

—Bob Lucky

Great sense of sound, and "feel" of vinyl, as well as its scent. And 'blue moon' is part of so many songs. There's a lot of blue moon songs from The Marcels, Elvis Presley, Rod Stewart, Dean Martin, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, and the Supremes, just to mention a few!

Terrific haiku on so many sensations!

Alan

6 months ago @ tinywords - tinywords.com/2023/09/... · 1 reply · +1 points

Not mentioned here, but actually this got to 1st Place!

First Place

brooding
over world events
cicadas

Amy Losak
2021 Gerald Brady Senryu Contest, Haiku Society of America

A neat senryū with the white noise of certain political commentators etc... who may or may not be cicadas, or at least as noisy!

6 months ago @ tinywords - Welcome to TINYWORDS 23.2 · 0 replies · +2 points

Hi Judith,
I know, I was using the photo prompt as inspiration though not about that gate itself.

I sometimes like to move around the prompt, and snails that can travel huge distances nudged my writing arm!

warm regards,
Alan

6 months ago @ tinywords - Welcome to TINYWORDS 23.2 · 0 replies · +2 points

Thank you for selecting my haiku! It was prompt-inspired but not about the actual gate in the photo. It just made me think of those snails who can move vast distances!

Big congrats to Ana with their wonderfully expansive haiku!

old gate…
its only guardian
summer sky

— Ana Drobot

warm regards,
Alan

1 year ago @ tinywords - tinywords.com/2022/05/... · 0 replies · +2 points

stepping stones
in the river
the choices we make

—Jill Lange
Under the Basho (November 2019)

Choices and flowing water, the alchemy in all of us.

Lovely haiku!

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those who stop —
ducks taking colour
from the river

Alan Summers

brass bell: a haiku journal
curated by Zee Zahava (January 2017)

1 year ago @ tinywords - tinywords.com/2022/05/... · 0 replies · +2 points

constellations

my consternation
in morse

Alan Summers
EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2019 -Year of Indigenous Languages

or

Inspector Morse (TV series) where he is only ever known as "Morse" though never suffered from a heavy cold sometimes pronounced as 'code' <grin>

1 year ago @ tinywords - tinywords.com/2022/05/... · 0 replies · +2 points

Mice in Australia are of course at disturbing numbers as they are not a native species, or are cats. So it's usually dogs that are mousers:

dog mouser…
the moon’s whiskers
brush alongside

Alan Summers

Publication credit:
Sublunary Review (August 2020) ed. Ruslan Garrey

p.s.

That Toowoomba Sheep Station dog mouser (retired but still haunting the sheds) was called Max! So he was Max the Mouser (rtd). <grin>

1 year ago @ tinywords - tinywords.com/2022/05/... · 0 replies · +2 points

Oh, I have some anecdotes about herons being clumsy! :-) That includes one being especially noisy too, that a whole group of haiku poets on a ginko missed, despite being huddled in conversation just 30 feet (or less) away! <grin>

I must write about that incident one day!

warmest regards
Alan

1 year ago @ tinywords - tinywords.com/2022/05/... · 0 replies · +2 points

grey heron
the depth of the river
in its eyes

—Nick T

Herons are both magical and mystical aren't they? Of course occasionally they let themselves down by being incredibly clumsy at times, but as haiku writers we can forgive them!

That is a truly beautiful phrase in your haiku.

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Here's a River Avon heron haiku!

a river surreptitiously the heron

Alan Summers
Publication Credit: otata 11 ed. John Martone (November 2016)

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