Gendai haiku
first quarter moon
dancing pinheads burst
into new angel DNA
email to Canada
The moon is in its first quarter
this Japan morning
the day after
Tanka
the long night
and longer day
even our broken moon
over the biggest wave
separates our love
Alan Summers is a Japan Times award-winning writer for haiku and renga: www.withwords.org.uk
He wrote me tonight:
“Many of my Japanese friends are safe, either home, or still walking back
home. One is even on the 20th storey of a big building because Japanese
buildings are so safe, but homes can’t compete. The wave was travelling
at 600mph.”
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9 responses to “Poet Alan Summers”
My haiku and short verse collection (containing gendai style work) has been published and available across Amazon, links here:
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/does-fish-god-know-haiku-collection-by.html
Plus Canada of course!
http://www.amazon.ca/Does-Fish-God-Know-Alan-Summers/dp/1479211044
warm regards, and many thanks for featuring me.
Alan
Wonderful news, Alan, thanks for sharing that with us! I will look for that!
I also highly recommend donating to the Salvation Army who have long been in Japan, and are currently doing marvellous work.
As someone who heard of tasteless squabbling amongst international rescue charities during the Kashmir crisis, and had two Moslem friends go out there and help save literally tens of thousands of lives, I hope that the Western charities respect the Japanese culture which is also different from the West’s.
There’ll be news of a book that is a project to raise money, with donations also going to the Red Cross, and to the Salvation Army.
I might have little spare money, but it’s surprising how a writer can do some good too. 😉
Alan, With Words
Alan, I appreciate all your comments here to myself and the other contributing poets so much, and of course,
loved your poem. Thanks again.
It’s great that a brilliant and sensitive artist like Lady Gagal has set in motion something that millions of her fans will buy and donate money to Japan.
As the death toll could easily go as high as ten thousand, and the repercussions for the ordinary decent people be with them for the rest of their lives, every little helps, just like this fantastic idea by Heather! 😉
Alan
I’ve donated $25 to the Lady Gaga Japan Appeal.
Alan
http://area17.blogspot.com
That is wonderful Alan, thank you.
Thanks Heather! 😉
gendai haiku:
first quarter moon
dancing pinheads burst
into new angel DNA
Alan Summers
n.b. gendai haiku is a type of sub-genre within haikai literature.
Alan’s blog:
http://area17.blogspot.com
Thanks again, Alan, such an excellent contribution.