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Clear Light contains 150 haiku bursting with Alan Spence's characteristic verve and wit. Mythic and mesmerising, inspiring and hilarious, these poems shed clear light on the delights, hardships, breakthroughs and frustrations of the world of the momentary. Simple in form, these haiku request a fresh look at the familiar and leave us reeling at how much in the world, from the exotic to the everyday, we have yet to observe.

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Publié par	Canongate Books
Date de parution	27 septembre 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781847677051
Langue	English

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CLEAR LIGHT
HAIKU
ALAN SPENCE
To Janani

Contents
Title Page Dedication Clear Light Acknowledgements About the Author Also by Alan Spence Copyright
as if I’ve never
seen it before –
the new moon

spring snow
trying its best
not to fall

all morning the drip
of melting snow
from the trees

the dark chapel
white rose a chalice
of light

suddenly spring –
my heart and the river
full to bursting

that daft dog
chasing the train
then letting it go

the washing
hung out to dry –
the spring rain

in the drizzling rain
blaze of yellow
blossoms

the rain has stopped
but still it’s falling
under the trees

under the vast sky
the horse rolls over
kicks his legs in the air

plovers on the wet sand
each one standing
on its own reflection

black crow stark
against the field
of yellow rape

white butterfly –
the sun in my eyes
makes me sneeze

I’m falling up
into it –
big summer sky

mountain-tops
in the clear blue
above the clouds

borobodur
the buddha’s lives
dreamed in stone

borobodur
rumble of thunder
the buddha’s gaze

borobodur
what the thunder said
boro