commuting to work the iambs of trains

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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.

6 thoughts on “”

  1. Accurate observing.

    May I add a seasonal touch?

    commuting to work
    the iambs of trains
    in spring rains

  2. A beautiful monoku. The word phrase 'iambs of trains' is unique and fresh. The haiku reflects the busy life of a common man.

    floating clouds birds fly the other way

    Pravat Kumar Padhy
    Publication Credit: brass bell: a haiku journal, July 2014

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    commuting to work the iambs of trains

    —ALAN S. BRIDGES

    Wonderful use of a technical poetry term of stressed and unstressed syllables capturing the movement of a train. And perhaps the stressed (and unstressed) syllables of conversations that commuters make.
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    sun off stubble a train in its landscape

    Alan Summers
    otata 4 (April, 2016) ed. John Martone

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