'I need a new photo,' she says,
'To replace that one you took
nearly twenty years ago.'
On her website the new one
shows her whiter-haired,
still smooth-faced and lovely.
Upper Yarra Valley
Neighbourhood Centre.
Educators, enablers.
Our shared philosophies
expanded each other’s
gifts: teaching, writing.
Life moved us;
we never forgot. Now
her best friend turns up here.
Rapturous reunion
via email. We swap
news, our latest books.
[Poem #81]
This began as a game some bloggers played in 2008, to write about people who'd made an impact, in the same number of words as one's age, every day for a year. I did them less often and went on longer, adding one word each birthday. I stopped in 2016 and incorporated them into my main poetry blog. In 2019 I resumed the project and gave it its own blog again, with a new name, where it may unfold at its own (slow, intermittent) pace. I've labelled these verse portraits, but they're more like quick sketches: mere glimpses, impressions....
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