this delicate rain
the petal makes a typo
of a gravestone date
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Alan Summers
Alan Summers has been filmed by NHK Television (Japan) for the feature “Europe meets Japan - Alan's Haiku Journey.” He’s a Trailblazer Contest 2024 winner for an experimental haikai verse, and a winner of the Bournemouth Writing Festival 2024 (Poetry and Flash Fiction) for haibun. His current passion is retrospective recipes including 1970s France, Britain, and Italy.
Alan is the founding editor of The Pan Haiku Review:
https://www.callofthepage.org/the-pan-haiku-review/
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Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.
Yes, the strange dates didn't add up, and it had me perplexed for quite a while, strolling round the church grounds.
My second time round I just got really up and close to the gravestone and was astonished that a single petal had created a new date, as if the death date was in the future.
Very interesting, Alan…
A masterpiece! Thank you, Alan!
Thanks Freddy! Very much appreciated.
warm regards,
Alan
The whole as delicate as the rain in question…..lovely, Alan.
A typo on a gravestone how we all wish for this at times
and the thought of petals as a form of consolation
however temporary. Just great, Alan.
Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.
Evocative! To me, it plays with our attachment to time/death/eternity.
she always said
she was ten years younger
Thanks for the comments everyone! ;-)
Yes, the strange dates didn't add up, and it had me perplexed for quite a while, strolling round the church grounds.
My second time round I just got really up and close to the gravestone and was astonished that a single petal had created a new date, as if the death date was in the future.
all my best,
Alan
asphalt stink
the cricket’s chirr quickens
Wonderful haiku Alan. // Peter.
I love this. How you have created a lightness to a normally sad or somber subject.
corrigendum
newspaper apologies
about gravestone dates
a court decision
about changes
of grave stone dates
Allan i hope you will not be summoned by the court
The gravestone had nothing to do with me. Perhaps they should take the petal to court? Dafter things have happened.
warm regards,
Alan with just one 'l' but thanks for thinking of my missing 'l' :-)