mountain hollow
a sway in the back
of the old draft horse
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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
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Enjoyed the moving hollow of the old draft horse:
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mountain hollow
a sway in the back
of the old draft horse
Love the opening line and how it segues into an old work horse now hopefully happily retired!
Wonderful!
—ALAN S. BRIDGES
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Bush damper –
a tingle of big sky coffee
in the horse riders
Alan Summers
Troutswirl A Sense of Place: HIKING TRAIL – taste ed. KJMunro
(November 2018, The Haiku Foundation)
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Note:
Damper Bread was a staple of the early Australian settlers' diet. Traditionally, the dough was cooked directly on the coals of an open fire. If you use this method, have a beer handy in case some of the ashes on the damper are still glowing when you eat it!
…the name was derived from Bond's way of “damping” the fire, covering it with ashes. This preserved the red coals, ready to re-kindle the fire the following morning. The damper was buried in the ashes to bake. … The dough can be wrapped around a stick which is suspended over the fire.
– australianfoodtimeline
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