Toshogu shrine pines
I try to stay as still-
mist and dew
Author: Alan Summers
Alan's haiku and poetry is published in over 60 anthologies, and a number of languages. He regularly reads, performs, and workshops from venues as diverse as possible including shop windows; inner city rainforests; cliff tops; to the more orthodox places...on occasion. His website is: http://www.withwords.org.uk
Contact: alan at withwords dot org dot uk
Mars landing-
a tendril of red dust
shifts from a footfall
autumn twilight …
swan shapes separate
for the lone boatman
sputnik satellite
a solar flare picks out
a rivet
falling down
onto rush hour traffic
seagull feathers
august wind
a sparrow re-rights itself
at the peanut cage
bright breeze
a sighted person fingers
the statue’s eyes
library cafe –
we swap lost key stories
as my coffee cools
fourteen summers
the glue remains
of a paper heart
curling up at dusk
the park bench sleeper
turns over a new page
white sails …
a wind has also shaped
the tree
lime quarter
an icecube collapses
over jazz
inter-city train journey –
a rattling window top
shuts itself
beer forgotten
the drunk looks deep
within his shoe
an attic window sill
a wasp curls
into its own dust
traffic jam
a driver fingers the breeze
through the sunroof
open window
the cat dozes
half in half out
the morning star
through the caravan skylight
a peacock’s scream
almost lost
in the shimmer of water
several ducklings