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. View all posts by Alan S. Bridges
This really speaks to me – such a punch in so few words. Perfect for a one-liner. –Billie
I like your winter poem!
bright colors
celebrate
the dying leaves
So powerful! I really enjoyed this very much!!! Thank you for sharing-Judi
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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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The darkness also can invoke sinister darker images.
dark passage the killer inside him
indifferent
to her agonizing screams
dark alleyway
Yes. This is powerful. Thank you.
This seared me. And helped me.
Wow! Thought provoking.
__ Nifty. A wee light to show us who we are; a new course. _m
dim path
this sunrise clue
new turn
This one leaves its mark, very impacting, thank you.
the winter inside us who will thaw first ?