Per Diem for November 2018: Ravens and Crows
Per Diem: Daily Haiku for November features Silvia Kempen’s collection on “Ravens and Crows.”
Silvia says that through her selections she aims to highlight corvid being: the inventiveness and adaptability of these birds, with some species being able to recognise themselves in the mirror, even show empathy. Their proximity to human communities has meant that from ancient times, ravens and crows entered human mythology and folklore, populated the arts and our mindscapes, becoming potent religious, spiritual, dream symbols – and now they even inhabit Per Diem: Daily Haiku!
Each day in November a poem will appear on the top right hand corner of the THF site header. Enjoy!
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Loving this corvid series Silvia – all the dark shades of a raven’s dusk-cloak
crow
sharpening its beak
reading Poe
crow’s pecking
between rice balls
hungry soul
stomach pressure
a crow on the roof
bad forboding
my balcony
crow’s call every day
each ancestor’s voice
seed eaters
browse the taiga…
cold ravens
Ravens and crows…and all of Alan’s brilliant ‘corvid collection’…what could be better than that?
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first hard frost—
even the crow’s raucous cawing
is white
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Wild Plum, a haiku journal, 2:2, Fall & Winter 2016
crow’s feast
between here and there
samhain
for the lonely crow
in the middle of the street
one piece of apple
listen! the wail
of winter’s desolation
even crows gather closer
in response to a prompt set by Kristjaan Panneman of Carpe Diem Haiku Kai back in April this year.
black crow scares the sun
a seer mourns the season…
no color ’til spring
A yellow tulip
grown in the glasshouse
will brighten the mood
One crow
in front of the house
a loner
Ravens and crows – how wonderful, Silvia!
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(This will no doubt be of great interest also to my fellow crow fan, Alan Summers 🙂 )
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marion
You are so right Marion! 🙂
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And here are just a small selection from my own corvid collection:
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mist haze-
a crow cleans its beak
on a rooftop aerial
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Alan Summers
Azami 38 (Japan 1996)
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dark news
the comfort
of crows
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Alan Summers
First Publication: tinywords 15.1 (2015)
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Features:
Brass Bell Showcase: Alan Summers (July 2015)
Haiku Foundation Per Diem Daily Haiku: “Loaded” ed. Marion Clarke (October 2018)
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moonlighting crows in other colors
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Alan Summers
Frogpond (39:1) Winter Issue 2016
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Anthology:
Full of Moonlight (Haiku Society of America) 2016 ed. David Grayson
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day moon
a crow slices
half of it
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Alan Summers
The Eight Assassins haibun pub. moongarlic issue 5 November 2015
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night-tide the rook takes back its moon
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Alan Summers
Acorn #31 2013
Article: The Moon is Broken: Juxtaposition in haiku article Scope vol. 60 no. 3 (FAWQ magazine April 2014)
Feature: Brassbell Spotlight July 2014
Charlotte Digregrio best of haiku feature (August 2015)
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Pushcart Prize Nominated (2014)
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intermittent rain I shed another crow
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Alan Summers
Frogpond (36:3 autumn 2013)
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powdered snow – a crow’s eyes above the no parking sign
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Alan Summers
Joint Winner, Haiku International Association 10th Anniversary Haiku Contest (Japan 1999)
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secret garden
a clue to everything
lies with the crows
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Alan Summers
Mainichi Shimbun (Japan) July 2016
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lone crow
rain crosses
the moon
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Alan Summers
Asahi Shimbun (June 2018)
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a teaspoon of spice crows bottle the wind in caws
and then release it
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Alan Summers
8th Yamadera Bashō Memorial Museum Haiku Contest 2016
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night crows
the haystacks lose
their moonlight
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Alan Summers
Wild Plum, Spring & Summer 2015 issue
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Anthology Credit:
Behind the Tree Line
(Selected haiku from the Wild Plum – a haiku journal and the Wild Plum Haiku Contest 2015)
ed. Gabriel Sawicki
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crow-flecked the jack of all moons
rising rising
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Alan Summers
Scope Vol 62 No 1 (The magazine of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (Qld) Inc February 2016)
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petrichor a scent of leaves
in the crow call
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Alan Summers
Scope Vol 62 No 1 (The magazine of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (Qld) Inc February 2016)
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corn moon
the jackdaw shifts
its iris
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Alan Summers
Asahi Shimbun (International Haiku Day April 17th 2015, Japan)
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another hot day
a leaking water pipe stopped
by the jackdaw’s beak
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Alan Summers
Honourable Mention, 14th Mainichi Haiku Contest (Japan 2010)