Per Diem for January 2021: “in quaich and sakazuki” (Haiku about Spirits)
Per Diem: Daily Haiku for January 2021 features Ralf Bröker’s collection on the theme of “in quaich and sakazuki” (Haiku about Spirits). This is what Ralf has to say by way of an introduction to this theme:
Cultural asset or satanic scourge? Tasty experience or dangerous temptation? Alcohol‘s many faces are part of this fine collection of haiku that opens the per diem for 2021. I have chosen the theme: “in quaich and sakazuki”. The authors are sensitive, gifted, and proficient haijin from all over the world.
– Ralf Bröker
beer diluted
half tumbler in confinement
bland sedative
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staggering steps equally compete each gulp of beer
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Dear esteemed poet,
Greetings. Apart from your ” beer rings and ” bag of beer”
the following I like, image and content making me read and re read into
the haiku
whiskey storyteller the road in marked cubes of ice
Alan Summers
Dear Radhamani sarma,
I used a kind non-lethal beer trap for slugs and snails one night. 🙂
The next morning they had escaped and their trails was just like British people after a Friday night out drinking!!!
Thank you for liking that one, and the whiskey drinker one too! I learnt to appreciate American bourbon, and also Rye, as well as Irish whiskey (all spelt with an ‘e’) as well as the famous Scottish single malt ones called Malt, as well as Scotch, which is called and spelt whisky, with no ‘e’. 🙂
warm regards,
Alan
bag of beer
snail trails leave it
from all directions
Alan Summers
WHC Tournament June 2002
beer forgotten
the drunk looks deep
within his shoe
Alan Summers
Publication credits: The Haiku Calendar, Snapshot Press (2004); Tinywords (2004); Beer Haiku Daily (2007)
candlelight
the grain of the table
in a beer ring
Alan Summers
The Bath Burp: Poetry, Music & Arts Monthly Issue No. 12 (May 2012)
sunday lunch
the chatter of children
among hard drinkers
Alan Summers
Publication credit: Haiku Harvest vol. 4 no. 1 (2003)
Anthology: Haiku Harvest: 2000 – 2006 (Modern English Tanka Press 2007)
‘Favourites each fortnight’ on Serge Tome’s tempslibre 2002
Whisky and Whiskey!
late night television spills its whisky tumbler
Alan Summers
Collection: Forbidden Syllables (Bones Library May 2020)
https://bonesjournal.com/books/Alan_Summers-Forbidden-Syllables-bones-ed.pdf
whiskey storyteller the road in marked cubes of ice
Alan Summers
Publication credit: Hedgerow #133 ed. Caroline Skanne (December 2020)
peat smoke–
one more angel’s share
of handcrafted whisky
Alan Summers
Publication Credit: Sippin’ Haibun, Blithe Spirit Vol. 25 issue 2 (2015)
N.B.
The “Angels’ Share” is the amount of alcohol (around 2%) that evaporates normally from oak casks. Whisky producers once thought it was angels taking a small sip before the whisky was matured for bottling.