dark passage the winter inside me

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Alan S. Bridges

Alan S. Bridges began writing haiku in 2008 after a chance meeting with poet John Stevenson, Managing Editor of The Heron's Nest, on a cross-America train trip. Alan especially likes train and fishing haiku, and is assembling haiku for a book. Alan's haiku have been published widely and he won the 2013 Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition. In 2014 he was named a judge of the Haiku Society of America Gerald Brady Senryu Contest and won an honorable mention for the 25th ITO EN Oi Ocha New Haiku Contest-- His haiku will appear on ITO EN bottles of green tea later in 2015. Also in 2015, Alan won first prize for the Kaji Aso Studio International Haiku Contest.

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    dark passage the winter inside me

    —ALAN S. BRIDGES

    Sometimes whether we walk along a literal dark passageway, or an allegorical one, some deed we've done or about to do, we get a moment of clarity, perhaps enough to halt whatever we plan.

    At other times it may be Black Dog, or that we have allowed a coldness separate to the season to take hold. I hope that just like the seasons, it will pass too.
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    dark snow the night begins its winter

    Alan Summers
    Publication Credit: brass bell: a haiku journal (Winter 2014)

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    my father's war
    a story of the dark
    collecting its own

    Alan Summers
    Publication Credit: Presence issue #55 2016
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  2. The darkness also can invoke sinister darker images.

    dark passage the killer inside him

    indifferent
    to her agonizing screams
    dark alleyway

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