Indian summer
someone blowing
on the embers

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Sylvia Forges-Ryan

Sylvia Forges-Ryan is a former Editor of Frogpond, the international journal of the Haiku Society of America. Her poems have been published in many countries and in six continents. Writing in various Japanese forms, she has won many international prizes, including the Harold G. Henderson Award from the Haiku Society of America, the R.H. Blyth Award from the World Haiku Association, the Grand Prix from the Kyoto Museum for World Peace, the Azsacra Poetry Award from the Taj Mahal Review in India, and First Prizes in the Mainichi Times Contest in Tokyo, the California Ukiah Festival, and the Key West Robert Frost Haiku Competition. She has published three books: Take a Deep Breath, the Haiku Way to Inner Peace, co-authored with her husband, Edward R. Ryan, PhD, was cited by poet, editor, and translator Jane Reichhold as “the perfect haiku book,” and was given an Honorable Mention from the World Haiku Review. What Light There Is was described by Susumu Takiguchi, World Haiku Editor, as “One of the best books of haiku ever produced in English, a treasure.” In addition, the book was awarded a Distinguished Touchstone Award HM from the Haiku Foundation and has a Russian edition. Both books, along with her third book, Side by Side< Poems Prints, have been selected for permanent inclusion in the American Literature Collection of the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University.

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  1. .
    Indian summer
    someone blowing
    on the embers

    —Sylvia Forges-Ryan

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    Wonderful lines with
    “someone blowing
    on the embers”

    As time is being called on Summer delaying the inevitable!

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    a hare’s moon
    the few embers
    that linger

    Alan Summers
    Icebox (Japan, March 2018)
    from the Icebox inbox – 41

    Anthology credit: Four Hundred and Two Snails: The Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology 2018, ed. Nicholas M. Sola

    November moon – hare

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    leaves of the book…

    travelling the blue atlas

    on ember clouds

    Alan Summers

    Publication Credit: 

    cattails Premier Edition: January 2014
    Tribute Page John E. Carley
    – August, 1955 – December, 2013
    Principal editor an’ya, USA

  2. what a great way to depict Indian summer. During heat wave this is how exactly it feels: some one blowing on the embers

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