spring cleaning
a few love tanka
for my eyes only
shoved back
under the rug
Fire Pearls 2: Short Masterpieces of Love and Passion, 2013
Sylvia Forges-Ryan
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
春季大掃除
我將幾首自己欣賞之用
的愛情短歌
再一次
隱藏起來
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
春季大扫除
我将几首自己欣赏之用
的爱情短歌
再一次
隐藏起来
Bio Sketch
Sylvia
Forges-Ryan recently won Third Prize in the 2014 Robert Frost Poetry
Contest for her poem, "On a Berkshire Hill". 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.
L1 establishes the thematic context while the unexpected Ls 4&5 spark the reader's emotions and reflection on love and passion, reminding me of the second staza of "Dust under the Rug: by Carol Prejean Zippert:
ReplyDeleteI want to sweep my love
under the rug to contain the
accompanying desires but love
and passion won't be trampled
on for long, they trip the
unsuspecting step.