All night the rattle
at the iron gate
the color of winter

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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.

8 thoughts on “”

  1. __ You've enticed my imagination into this instant senryu, an echo to your apposite haiku; sleep awakened… those squeaky, rustful hinges. _m

    moonlight steps
    to latch the fence gate
    rusty hinge

  2. Lovely! …so wonderful how you've used synesthesia with 'the color of winter' to bring us color, sound, and for me taste as well when I envision a cold winter night.

  3. Colour and sound… The synesthesia employed very well is interesting..enjoyed this.

  4. Beautiful ku.

    coalfield fire–
    the winter morning
    thickens its colour

    Pravat Kumar Padhy
    Publication Credit: Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, Vol. 1:1, Fall-Winter 2017

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