Upset over news
of refugees fleeing
war and poverty
I create one more
wiping away the spider’s web

 

 

 

(originally appeared in What Light There Is, Red Moon Press, 2016)

 

Published by

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.

2 thoughts on “”

  1. Sad is the subject beautiful is your elaboration !

    And the spider web
    Is not a home
    A trap to feed on those traped in

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