slowly falling snow
little by little I learn
to forget you

 

 

 

(originally appeared in White Lotus, Issue 6, 2008)

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Sylvia Forges-Ryan

Sylvia Forges-Ryan recently received the International Azsacra Poetry Award from the Taj Mahal Journal in Allahabad, India which published her poems in December 2014. Also, she won Third Prize in the 2014 Robert Frost Poetry Contest. Her book, Take a Deep Breath: The Haiku Way to Inner Peace, which won an R. H. Blyth Honorable Mention for Outstanding Books in Haiku Literature from the World Haiku Review in 2013, was selected for permanent inclusion in the American Literature Collection of the Beinecke Library at Yale University.

13 thoughts on “”

  1. It is hard work to un-commit yourself. You have to prepare the way for a re-commitment. It’s the only way to authenticate your love.

  2. The heart has its fast beast, and its slow underlying rhythms. It won't be hurried. Snow a deceptive blanket, leaving painful things covered?

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    a flink of cows
    the blue before a night
    of falling snow

    N.B. Twelve cows are called a flink

    Alan Summers
    Blithe Spirit 2014

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    falling snow moon
    the slowness of shadows
    caught in branches

    Alan Summers
    Ry?an-ji sequence pub. Presence #47 (2012)

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    falling clouds
    the snow gathering
    bits of moon

    Alan Summers
    Hedgerow: a journal of small poems (Issue 1, September 2014)

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    Lovely to be able to revisit your exquisitely beautiful haiku:

    slowly falling snow
    little by little I learn
    to forget you

    (originally appeared in White Lotus, Issue 6, 2008)

    —SYLVIA FORGES-RYAN

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