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summer visit
an old friend discusses
his speed dating
.

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nearing my birthday
I meet my uncle 'brother'
for just the first time

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small hours–

a light summer breeze tilts

the crow's call

note:

6am  and very quiet except for one bird calling, and a crow's almost tentative response.

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reading Hiroaki Sato's
erotic haiku anthology
summer heat

Hiroaki Sato’s ”Erotic Haiku” ISBN 4-89684-020-8
Stonebridge Press:
http://www.stonebridge.com/shopdisplayproducts.asp?Search=Yes&sppp=50&searchcat=
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bouts of flash rainfall–
too humid for a raincoat
I eat some pretzels

wheat and gluten free pretzels (and more):
http://www.trufree.co.uk/Product/Pretzels/
.

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library cafe --
we swap lost key stories
as my coffee cools



• Presence haiku magazine #32 (2007) ISSN 1366-5367
• Tinywords.com 27th July 2007
http://tinywords.com/haiku/2007/07/27/
• St Ambrose University, Iowa, U.S.A. O’Keefe Library at SAU April 2007 The O’Keefe Brief
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night rainforest
somewhere a treefrog
to a pocket pen

n.b. Mission Beach, Queensland (night rainforest walk)
Summer in Australia is different months. ;-)
.

'
surprise family visit
the late afternoon gleam
on homemade chocolate

wilting herbs
the glint of a knife leaves
a little mizzle

mizzle: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mizzle

.
important words
a cabbage butterfly circles
my universe


Even a single word is poetry, please take a moment to visit:
http://www.oneandother.co.uk/participants/Alan_S

all my very best,

Alan

.
azure afternoon
from an accent I guess
it's my new sister

.



(Alan note: my new baby sister (well, of 40 years) phones me on my mobile phone out of the blue!)

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.
perfect summer
I talk to my mother
I've never seen




(Alan note:
I just finished phoning my mother in Perth, Australia having being given my mother's number by my new uncle.

I have never seen my family, but I hope to see my new half-sister. She just so happens to be currently working in London not far from my London event!)

Alan's Trafalgar Square Living Statue Weblink: Alan's Fourth Plinth
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street festival
three lads try to scam haiku
for free chocolate

Woolley Street Festival:
http://www.woolleyfestival.co.uk/stalls.htm
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car park pothole
the mum watches the boy
in and out of a puddle
.

.
attempted robbery
a festival writer in residence
sits it out


I was a writer in residence for Frome Festival (U.K.) last Saturday, at a lovely bookshop, while a friend of mine was in a jewellery shop. While I had lots of people coming up to me (one image on Facebook) and asking what I was writing, the guys in the jewellery shop were doing the opposite.

Alan

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summer solstice
the unbearability of deadlines
on the longest day
.

spring day moon
I think I met the man
who owns it

Just a fun haikuesque poem.

Found Haiku

Taken from a recent conservational exchange on Facebook I pulled some words, changed some, to create this:

close to home
a locust's trill brings
summer memories

Makoto Hirose

For Makoto this is an experiential haiku, and it just goes to prove that when we don't try to write poetry in our head but talk or write naturally, then a proto-haiku occurs.

haiku everywhere
breakfast in Bradford on Avon
sunny side up