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Alan Summers

Alan lives where green parks roam a legendary river, and relatives once fought with King Alfred the Great against Danish Vikings. Nowadays the only Danish he demolishes is a pastry in one of many cafés and hotel lounges of Chippenham. He also edits The Pan Haiku Review and counts Louisa May Alcott as family.

one day more
the gift of a primrose
in fleeting snow

3rd Place, Ohio Kukai USA (February 2024)

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a world
of one tone
twins
with
freckles
everciduous
under cover 
of 
tulips

Password: the journal of Very Short Poetry (1.1, January 2024) 
ed. Melissa Allen

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Nordmann Fir
an imaginary fox
inverts sundown

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The Bournemouth Writing Festival inaugural Poetry & Flash Fiction competition 2024

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24 responses to “Alan Summers”

  1. mikerehling Avatar
    mikerehling

    So nice to read these again… Really appreciate your work.

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    1. haikutec Avatar
      haikutec

      Thanks Mike, much appreciated!

      Alan

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  2. mcbwalker Avatar
    mcbwalker

    Love your description – it’s so “you”. “one more day” is a favorite I remember!

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    1. haikutec Avatar
      haikutec

      Wow, thank you. It is always one more day. A fellow haiku poet and her husband are in serious health failure over Christmas as they caught flu from someone. We never know ‘our number’.

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  3. Vandana Parashar Avatar
    Vandana Parashar

    It”s always a pleasure reading your work, Alan. Love all three.

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    1. haikutec Avatar
      haikutec

      Thanks!

      Alan

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  4. innerbouquetd06cb016f7 Avatar
    innerbouquetd06cb016f7

    These are all so fabulous !!! 🤩

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    1. haikutec Avatar
      haikutec

      Thank you, deeply appreciated.

      Alan

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  5. Neena Singh Avatar
    Neena Singh

    Alan your work leaves me wondering on your repertoire of ideas for haiku. Your talent is inspiring- loved all three, especially “one day more”. Great feature by Kelly. 👌💕

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    1. haikutec Avatar
      haikutec

      Thanks Neena,

      I love how haiku never stands still and neither should we. 🙂

      Yes, “one day more” has only previously been seen by maybe a dozen haiku poets on the Ohio Haiku Zoom event they held once every two months.

      Great to have it seen by more people now!

      many thanks!

      Alan

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  6. extendki Avatar
    extendki

    nice to see these poems aired from sources I’m not familiar with.

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    1. haikutec Avatar
      haikutec

      Thanks!

      “one day more” is from a private zoom amongst mostly Ohio haiku poets which I thought would be worth letting go public.

      “Nordmann Fir” is from a haibun, the only one in this Flash Fiction & Poetry anthology:

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      1. fatihab1212 Avatar
        fatihab1212

        They are all great especially the first one .

        many thank Alan🌺

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  7. Lafcadio Avatar
    Lafcadio

    Alan,

    Your poems always inspire me.

    Thank you,

    Lafcadio

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    1. haikutec Avatar
      haikutec

      Dear Lafcadio,

      Thank you so much. What a rewarding thing to say, as I really try to push the boat out when I write, and it often falls between agony and ecstasy. Through pain, we create art or hope we do!

      Alan

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  8. MaryJo Avatar
    MaryJo

    This is so you, Alan. You reinvigorate whatever form you’re writing in–love, “one day more”–you do so much with that. Really inspiring.

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    1. haikutec Avatar
      haikutec

      Thanks MaryJo!

      I really try to inject much more than simply the sum of the (visible) words. I guess I’m trying to write a stronger poem that can’t be seen, that is behind the poem this is visible. Maybe I’m just a Virgo, I blame Treat Williams (a blood relative) who was also a fan of Star Wars when it first came out!

      “So here you have this Hollywood star who just decided, for probably no salary, just to hang out for a few scenes and was quite happy with the role of an extra in Empire Strikes Back. And that was kinda the way it was.” ―John Morton

      Richard Treat Williams (December 1, 1951 – June 12, 2023)

      I guess the flame that burned so bright (Carrie Fisher/Princess Leia) who was an incredible writer beyond the scale of most other writers, and he was as much a Theatre actor as a film star. We just want to hang out with special people and special projects! (smiles)

      Alan

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      1. wendytothnotarnicola Avatar
        wendytothnotarnicola

        Alan, your work is always wonderful and always inspiring – and these are certainly no exception. The imagery in “one more day” will remain with me forever like your haiku “house clearing” has.

        Affectionately, Wendy

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      2. haikutec Avatar
        haikutec

        Thank you so much! It’s been a wonderful opportunity to reveal ‘one more day’ as it was on a private Ohio-based haiku group zoom, and now thanks to Kelly, others like your good self can see it. As events accelerate mostly in a negative direction, it gathers more poignancy.

        Thanks again!

        warm regards,
        Alan

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      3. wendytothnotarnicola Avatar
        wendytothnotarnicola

        Alan, your work is always wonderful and always inspiring – and these are certainly no exception. The imagery in “one more day” will remain with me forever like your haiku “house clearing” has.

        Affectionately, Wendy

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  9. wendytothnotarnicola Avatar
    wendytothnotarnicola

    Correction – the haiku is “house clearing.”

    Apologies.

    Wendy

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    1. haikutec Avatar
      haikutec

      Thanks again, Wendy, ‘house clearing’ was unexpected, as I wondered if I’d struggle to write about my mother, and I’d only indirectly written about my father.

      The house was the third place that as a family we lived in, and although it wasn’t childhood home, it’s the one I most strongly remember as I entered young adulthood. It was my mother’s dream home, after years of hard grafting by herself, and also my father. To ‘dismantle’ it was very painful. It was quickly sold to pay taxes that even when you are dead, honest ordinary folk have to pay. It’s been transformed, perhaps not to my mother’s taste, but she was incredibly open. My mother and her sisters had to leave school to get jobs at 14 years old, and even 60 years later she hadn’t really retired. A working class woman she was a Batwoman during WWII, and many things after including painter & decorator, cleaner, and the only one in our family who could put flat-pack furniture together. At 5′ 1 1/2 inches she was very strong, which helped when she had an accident, and also helped when she only decided on the first and mild dose of morphine before she finally succombed to sepsis at 92 years old.

      thanks again,

      Alan

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      1. wendytothnotarnicola Avatar
        wendytothnotarnicola

        Your mother sounds like an incredible woman. Thank you for sharing her story!!

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  10. MaryJo Avatar
    MaryJo

    What a tribute to your mother, Alan!

    Thank you for sharing her story.

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