My Featured Blogger this week is Vera Poh of To Dad with Love Poetry. Vera is a Melbourne, Australia-based writer whose thoughts and feelings never fail to intrigue me.
There’s the immediate effect: thoughtful and insightful, sometimes witty, always visceral. And then there’s the after-effect: like the finish of a good wine, the flavours you continue to discover after you’ve tasted the words, and feel compelled to taste them again. An example from the poem below:
“The stain of baby’s vomit
On the shoulder
Is trifling and yet
Such things are declarations”Such words may be revelations, if we let them.
Read Vera!
Clarity is rarely expected
A relaxed focus
A pattern out of
Pale constellation
Provocative
Understanding
I would never ask you to
Explain it away
What astonishes me is our ignorance
Of our will to delude ourselves
* *
Again I realise how reality
Confounds our picture gallery
(The one who says we could
Make one the other)
Obtruding with its mechanisms, activities,
Exigencies, vanity
The stain of baby’s vomit
On the shoulder
Is trifling and yet
Such things are declarations
* *
This street given over to the homeless
In every shop entrance
Law enforcement clearing them away
No ‘hard feelings,’ blame the time,
Blame responsibility: one is born
And at once one is guilty
Does Adam eating the apple
Demand expiations such as this
I tell you
Clarity is rarely expected
Action and inaction
Line up a gallery of indictment
* *
This game of chess we try to…
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Wow, Mitch, thank you SO much, I don’t know what to say. I am really humbled. Your encouragement and presence and friendship have always meant a lot to me. And now, just when I feel I am beginning to fall away from this space, you have given me reason to return and carry on.
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The honor is mine, Vera. And any encouragement I may have given is well deserved. Carry on indeed!
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Carry on, I shall!
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Very nice! I look forward to reading more.
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