sunlight glistens
on a small blade of grass
each poet
passes along the fire
in dew drops winking

 

 

(Included in A Gift of Tanka, AHA Books, 1990)

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Jane Reichhold

Jane Reichhold (1937-2016). Jane Reichhold was born as Janet Styer in 1937 in Lima, Ohio, USA. In her lifetime she published over forty books of her haiku, renga, tanka, and translations. As founder and editor of AHA Books, Jane also published Mirrors: International Haiku Forum, Geppo, for the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, and she co-edited with her husband Werner Reichhold, Lynx for Linking Poets from 1992 through 2013. Lynx went online in 2000 in AHApoetry.com , the website Jane started in 1995. From 2006 to 2016 she maintained an online forum ? the AHA Poetry forum. Jane was twice the winner of the Museum of Haiku Literature Award [Tokyo]. She was a three-time winner of a Haiku Society of America?s Merit Book Award: Tigers in Teacup, Silence, and A Dictionary of Haiku. She was the winner of numerous other haiku awards and was honored by the Emperor and Empress of Japan by invitation to attend the Imperial New Year?s Poetry Party as a guest at the Palace in Tokyo in 1998. Jane Reichhold was a gifted writer, translator and teacher of the art of haiku and other Japanese forms. The international haiku community is lessened by her passing.

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  2. What a wonderful tanka, and splendid sentiments! Then I saw who it was by – lovely that she is honoured here by such an appropriate poem.

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  4. .
    Jane would have been so modestly delighted at her poems appearing on tiny words, she was a real fan of this site. Jane often announced on her now ceased Aha! Forum whenever someone had a poem up here.
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    sunlight glistens
    on a small blade of grass
    each poet
    passes along the fire
    in dew drops winking

    (Included in A Gift of Tanka, AHA Books, 1990)

    —JANE REICHHOLD
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    A wonderful couple of pieces of writing melded together:

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    From the small:

    sunlight glistens
    on a small blade of grass

    To all of us:

    each poet
    passes along the fire
    in dew drops winking

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    Beautiful and magical and uplifting, thank you Jane! :-)

    warm regards,

    Alan

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