I ... entered the poem of life, whose purpose is ... simply to witness the beauties of the world, to discover the many forms that love can take. (Barabara Blackman in 'Glass After Glass')

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Verse Portraits

Explanatory Note

In 2008 another blogger proposed a game of writing about people who had had an impact on you, in as many words as your age in years, in a blog of their own. It was supposed to be one a day for one year. I was much slower than that, so the word count increased every time I had a birthday. I stopped in 2016 and incorporated my 105 poems into this blog, 
using the label Verse Portraits for those poems. 


In 2019 I decided to resume the project and created another separate blog: Impressions You Left, later renamed Sketches. All the poems have been moved, and a few also remain here as well, so that links from various prompt sites will still work.


There are other poems here which might well be regarded as portraits but don't have that label, because they don't use that word count. (Also those which do have the label are more like quick sketches, but anyway....) 


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