dry stone wall
Paddington Bear
out in the rain
(Originally appeared in Presence #58, July 2017)
Author: Alan Summers
Alan Summers has been filmed by NHK Television (Japan) for the feature “Europe meets Japan - Alan's Haiku Journey.” He’s a Trailblazer Contest 2024 winner for an experimental haikai verse, and a winner of the Bournemouth Writing Festival 2024 (Poetry and Flash Fiction) for haibun. His current passion is retrospective recipes including 1970s France, Britain, and Italy.
Alan is the founding editor of The Pan Haiku Review:
https://www.callofthepage.org/the-pan-haiku-review/
new wellies
Christopher Robin
tags along
Easter Sunday
a For Sale sign leans
into birdsong
dark news
the comfort
of crows
heat lightning
the rain on the grass
reflects each strike
(Originally received 1st Prize in The Liverpool Virtual Book Fair Twitter Haiku Contest 2014
sunflower heart
the chiffchaff sings
its name
this delicate rain
the petal makes a typo
of a gravestone date
haiga
flash of yellow
a butterfly headbutts me
in my work break