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Yellow Poems
Here’s what inspired my first letter-poem to Karen: Decadence In Geneva, post boxes are yellow colour of decadence, of the book that stirs young Dorian Gray to taste forbidden dreams. Yellow as Van...
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Wing & Yellow Things
I found this grey wing in the twilight last week and I’ve been drafting and redrafting around it ever since. I’ve been struggling to capture the essence of it which was like the sound of someone...
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Sketches & Secrets
‘… stick secrets under stamps, conceal guilt with ink and hand-scrawl love…’ Lines from my ‘Decadence’ poem, realised in Karen’s latest letter to me – a secret written under the envelope seal: Secret...
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Speeding Away…
The post has been sneaky. On Thursday I opened my letterbox to find one of my letters to Karen returned by Monsieur La Poste – the address label must have peeled off in the cold interior of the...
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My Origami Heart
Miriam sent me an origami Valentine. It was very exciting to receive in the post and I would have posted more on it sooner, but I was ‘between printers’ and have only just got my new scanner up and...
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Decadence Revisited
This is my first edit of ‘Decadence’. I can almost see the next draft in my mind, so I’m posting this version quickly before it disappears into the waste paper bin – or, more realistically, the stack...
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Poems produced from 30/30 Prompt – Easter Sunday – Yellow-Clawed Hawk in Stream
April was an intense month. Firstly because I had committed to the 30/30 challenge to write a poem a day for 30 days, and secondly because I got married on 1 May. Another 'notebook' entry: signing the...
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A Year in Post Boxes
It’s been many months since Karen and I blogged about our letters, but offline, our correspondence is alive and in the post. We’ve now been writing to each other for over a year, and these letters,...
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A Postcard Not Posted #2
A letter for Karen will be dropped into the silver Singaporean postbox later today, but I too have an un-posted postcard. I just came back from nine days in Java, Indonesia, where I was very pleased...
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O is for…
One of my favourite things about letters is envelopes. I recently received a very exciting one from Karen: On the back 1) Write a poem where each line begins with a word beginning with ‘O’ 2) Write a...
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