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 for my part – writing not just the haiku, but a limerick and short lyric in order to capture the range of my responses. So many ‘first impressions’ in a 15 minute meeting. Lucky they were favourable (otherwise I might have had to restrict myself to a cryptic haiku). And lucky, too, our meeting wasn’t any longer, or I’d have ended up writing a whole verse novel! Now, I’m interested to hear her responses to the poems . . . and yours, also. See Carbon Project poems numbers 31, 32, 33.
Hey – wow nicely done Liana… Love your work! Amazing you picked up on Frida – the Haiku I love – definitely one to have made to hang in the new abode.
Look forward to seeing you at Tropicana Voicebox.
Excellent! I must admit I kind of pictured it hanging up in your new kitchen or somewhere – a housewarming haiku!
visited your abandoned blog
please consider posting again. it is great.
Thanks, Coral for your online activity (WAPI group update and here). I’ll have to figure a way to re-engage with the blog. When I set it up as part of the Cafe Poet gig there was some impetus to keep posting regularly. But I take heart from your kind words of encouragement and will think on’t.