Summer afternoon
a Bach sonata
cools the air
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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. View all posts by Sylvia Forges-Ryan
This deceptively simple haiku carries weight beyond its syllables. That pairing of “summer afternoon” with “Bach sonata” is both sensory and emotional, at least for me. it resonates as tension between heat and cool, chaos and order. As a violinist , I feel this one in my bones. Thanks, Sylvia.
Thank you. I appreciate your kind words.