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… Love that!
“Blame responsibility: one is born And at once one is guilty.”
Indeed!
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.
The honor is mine, Vera. And any encouragement I may have given is well deserved. Carry on indeed!
Carry on, I shall!
Excellent! Thank you for the recommendation!
Very nice! I look forward to reading more.