Every so often someone requesting a single poem trips some internal switch and I end up writing more. It happened with ‘hope’ and the poems for 6B. Most recently, the requester and I engaged in a high risk venture: for her part asking for a haiku on the topic of ‘first impressions of me’; and [...]
Archive for May, 2010
. . . but wait, there’s more
Posted in Uncategorized on May 24, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Hybrid
Posted in Uncategorized on May 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A very patient person has been waiting some weeks for poem number 17. The topic was visionary – a caring and inclusive community. My challenge was to evoke such a place by bringing the abstract down to particular earth, lest I sound like a pamphleteer or propagandist rather than a poet. It’s been worth the [...]
made weak by time and fate
Posted in Uncategorized on May 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
. . . nonetheless I stagger on! Given the topic request ‘running away to the country’ I was struck by how often people have that particular dream – and began wondering about who does – and who does not – go. Then my reflections meandered off on the theme of other lifelong hopes and in [...]
