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, lapsing and resuming) pace. I've labelled these verse portraits, but they're more like quick sketches: mere glimpses, impressions....


Sunday, 20 October 2024

A Long Friendship


Today, her ‘life celebration’

(she died peacefully at 92)


over a hundred people; she 

was entwined with this community.


1995, came to my market stall 

for a reading, then every month, 


always my first customer – 

my luck, I said – 


bringing me a gardenia 

(I started bringing a vase).


Months ... years. I brought her 

to Tai Chi, she shared André Rieu.


Walking from different directions

we’d meet for breakfast.


She promoted my readings

to friends, family.


(I still have the hand-crafted 

earrings her niece bartered.)



Poem #108



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