Ten times ten thousand
terrible things in this world
and still I don’t want to leave it

 

 

 

(from Dreams Wander On, Contemporary Poems of Death Awareness, ed.
Robert. Epstein, Modern English Press, 2011)

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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.

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      1. Wonderful haiku/poem. I wrote it on the board for my TOEFL students last week, as something had come up that made me think of this exquisite poem, and I wrote it out for my students. A woman from Saudi Arabia fell in love with it, and asked me, today, to find it for her. So, here I am, and will copy and paste it to give it to her tomorrow. Hope this is OK with you! If not, just let me know….

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  5. Thanks so much for letting me know how my poem has been received. Of course I am very happy to have you pass it on to your students.

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