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Meet 'Creator of Living Poetry' by R. S. Karunaratne
Lise Weidner who is well-known as the "Creator of Living Poetry" was born in London in 1966. Having grown up in Denmark she did her Master of Laws at the University of Copenhagen and worked as a corporate lawyer in a Scandinavian law firm. After doing an International MBA in Madrid she established her own consulting firm in Malaga in Spain. She joined an international organisation based and operating in Asia and the Pacific in 1998. Lise has been writing poetry since her childhood. However she claims it was during the years in Asia that she began to write poetry in a big way. For her, poetry is about creating beauty. It is about extracting the beauty floating around us, emphasising that beauty, magnifying it and constructing areas around it where you can breathe. Sometimes on your own. Sometimes not. She has written two volumes of poetry: Powerfully personal and Full (Circle Around the) Moon. She says the collection of poems in Powerfully Personal came into their own existence, literally demanding to be written as they flew out of her hands and landed on the notepads of the hotels she happened to be staying in at the time when they decided that now was the time to be born. Lise confesses that they all came about because of one of the greatest adventures in her life: experiencing and losing great love. The poems describe the beauty of that experience and how she survived losing it, moving from pain to letting go and at the end of the journey rediscovering the joy of intimacy as described in the epilogue "Lover's Dust". According Lise, Full (Circle Around the) Moon starts where Powerfully Personal ended by her moving on to a new chapter in life. Before she could do that, however, she had to deal with the universal theme of identifying her roots and the formation of her feminity. The poems in Full (Circle Around the) Moon, she claims, are snapshots that gradually build a total picture of a young woman meditating on the core issues of what makes us human while she is busy looking for herself. It was from the heart of that image that herself emerged. At the end of the circle and very close to the moon. A less traditional space in which to enjoy poetry is the art statements she has created through the Living Poetry concept. Her idea is to communicate poetry in a form and through a medium that makes it simultaneously accessible to groups of people. She hopes that Living Poetry will move the groups it reaches and create (re) actions. Readers may contact her: www.liseweidner.com or via e-mail: [email protected]. Lise has sent the following poem titled "Click" to be published in the Artscope. Click A **** Back **** |
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