Ariadne’s note: The World Poetry Café Radio Show with host Israel Mota and guest host Wanda John- Kehewin welcomed the talented and thought provoking Elaine Woo to the this special show. Music by Rene Hugo Sanchez and Mary Youngblood. To listen to this amazing show, CLICK HERE!
“Elaine Woo is a poet, librettist, non-fiction writer, and children’s writer. She frequently writes about being small in a world of big forces in her work on breaking racial and gender stereotypes, political philosophy, and the environment. Her work appears in Arc Poetry Magazine, Shy: An Anthology, V6A: Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (this anthology was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award, 2012), The Enpipe Line, Earthwalk, Ricepaper’s Double Issue on Aboriginal and Asian-Canadian Writers, West Coast Line, Ascent Aspirations, one cool word, All Rights Reserved Literary Association, Asian Cha, Poetry Pacific, Megaphone Magazine, and Room Plus Board. She has collaborated with composers Daniel Marshall, Adam Hill, and Rylan Leo Helmuth. Her collaboration Night-time Symphony with music by Daniel Marshall won a Boston Metro Opera Festival Prize in 2013.
My website is at: http://elainespath.com/
My blog : http://opalescenthomebrew.blogspot.com/“
My poem:
Difference United
by Elaine Woo
lying before me waterfall froth dark ripples
a white sailboat and navy blue fishing boat
marina mass of toothpick masts
` cottages concrete box houses nestled
on elbow of shore
cat’s eyes of lights
on the pier
blinking into the settling dusk on the hem
of the deciduous-skirted mountain
steady drizzle toe-tapping on my porch
a display of the distinct and differing
heritage of nature and human-kind
by the rocky shore an exhale of awe
mist rising to meet goddess clouds
the sky dappled in smoky hues
a motorboat’s wake follows
its owner’s path to the pier
rain dancing on
Elaine Woo (C)
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