I AM SO SORRY! I have fallen way behind in my AROS posts. 11 Days is too much! I'm about to post my small stones for the 11 days. I also have two special blog entries coming up by the end of today. Hope you will enjoy all of the posts, feel free to leave comments.
When my two dear friends, aspiring journalist Elizabeth Ramanand and promising film student Alisandra Karimullah, told me that they were going to London, I had a great idea. The night before they left, I bought some postcards from Barnes and Noble and during dinner and on the bus ride home, I wrote a poem on each postcard. I wrote most of these poems on my phone, while talking to a friend who has been one of my greatest inspirations. I gave the girls a mission. It was simple. Place these postcards in random places in London. And take a picture of where you placed it. I may have not been able to do it myself, but I wanted to feel like I was a part of the journey. This is the result of that. You can go to my photo gallery to see the actual photos. It's the last set on the page: between me&you: postcards to london.
I wished I could have been there! It's exciting to know that somewhere in the world, someone may pick up one of those postcards and read my work. I asked the girls how the experience was for them. "I really felt like I was on a mission and it made me take a closer look at places we went to as well. We tried to look for cards that may go with the place. We payed attention to the color of the phone booth and which postcard would pop or we tried looking for cracks and crevices in landmark places. It was really cool," said Elizabeth Ramanand. I love their choices. Though there were challenges along the way that I didn't think about. "The experience was somewhat challenging with the weather, we were trying to find a proper place for the postcards so they don't fly way. So that originally limited some really cool places (on the London Bridge itself), but then we got creative (the tourist attraction of the old school London Telephone booth)," said Alisandra Karimullah. "I am hoping that your poetry does reach someone who is willing to seek out your work and visit your website. All in all the mission was a success and I had a blast taking part in it." I'm glad that it was fun for them. I was in suspense the whole time they were away. But it turned out great. I would love to do more stuff like this. Maybe locally. Or hmmm, anyone planning a vacation? night wanderings
have sharpened my step. only once did i almost slip. Lifting laundry carts over
snow piles, tracking dirty, wet snow on the Laundromat's perfect floors. A New Yorker’s brightest stars are seen while driving back to the boroughs: the Manhattan skyline.
The moon was brighter than the street lights and my dilated pupils.
i listened to the rain fall
against my window after a mini snow storm. i never looked out. The stairs of the Rockaway Blvd train station lie in the middle of Liberty Avenue.
I lost time,
space, and sense. For a few hours, I went further down the Slope. Looking for stars in the middle of Times Square, while your voice washes over me.
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