tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28252800.post-1148980905434034302006-06-02T10:15:00.000-07:002006-06-02T06:39:41.516-07:00<span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;">Alan Summers has been inspired by 'haiku hike' to revisit, update and share a favourite walk of his made some time ago now. His memories of the walk 'renewed' and shared with us here. Thank you Alan.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The Crow Walk</span><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Australia</span></em><br /><br />coarse grass curls<br />round my walking shoes <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7142/2303/1600/haikuhikecurrawong&cecream.0.jpg"></a><br />an ant enters my bag<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7142/2303/1600/haikuhikecurrawong&amp;cecream.1.jpg"><img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7142/2303/200/haikuhikecurrawong%26cecream.0.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />the wind sways<br />part of a woven hat<br />once grass<br /><br />a dragonfly hovers round a leaf drops heavily through branches<br />the day moves into that inbetween time<br /><br />fading last note<br />torresian crow sounds<br />the darkening sky<br /><br />woodfire<br />flickering in the light<br />distant horses<br /><br />now under a black black sky stars more bright than I've ever seen<br />some seem to shift and move vibrate to suggest something more<br />last sighting on this travel of Jupiter above Venus<br /><br />susurrus of moths<br />round fire that flickers on<br />like the night<br /><br />it's cold now 3a.m. brittle cutting cold the moon's no longer full<br />this brutal simplicity of a night dark as a raven’s abode<br /><br />a thin trail<br />to the stars<br />woodsmoke & embers<br /><br />I see a lightening from dark to metal grey a quickening between trees<br />becomes a hurt violet into morning<br /><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7142/2303/1600/haikuhikecrowhurtvioletsky.jpg"><img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7142/2303/200/haikuhikecrowhurtvioletsky.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></span>early hours crow<br />I invoke a prayer<br />to its god and mine<br /><br />a red sunrise<br />through pale blue<br />trees rekindling the fire<br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7142/2303/1600/haikuhikecrowcampfire.jpg"></a><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7142/2303/1600/haikuhikecrowcampfire.0.jpg"><img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7142/2303/200/haikuhikecrowcampfire.0.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:78%;">The Crow Walk ©Alan Summers 2006<br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:78%;">(different earlier versions of the haibun text published in ‘Paper Wasp’ haiku journal, Queensland, Australia 1997; ‘Azami haiku journal’, Osaka, Japan 1998; and ‘Blithe Spirit’ British Haiku Society journal, June 2004.)<br /></span><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;">Images©Alan Summers2006</span><br /><br /><a href="http://haikuhikes.blogspot.com/2006/05/haiku-hiketomomi-iguchicrossover-ukan.html"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>HAIKU HIKE MAIN PAGE</strong></span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><br /><br /></strong></span><a href="http://www.crossover-uk.org/"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>CROSSOVER UK</strong></span></a><br /></span></span>Little Onionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17937020536725261581noreply@blogger.com