Long Winter Sunset
by Doris Heitmeyer
Edited by vince tripi
Illustrated by Hyde Meissner
Painter turned haiku poet, Doris Heitmeyer was a mainstay in the Haiku Society America until she retired to focusing on her writing.
Some thoughts on her poetry by vince tripi:
“Nature is everywhere.” How often said. But everywhere
in the heart? Doris Heitmeyer is a poet who has found
not only Nature, but the heart-of-Nature. And in the very
heart of the city! Isn’t poetry that place where anything &
everything must be found?
The place where anything & everything must be given
away!
Here is a poet of rare & generous receptivity…a poet of
rare & generous letting-go. Not everyone can see a sunset
for what it is. For what it is becoming. No apartment
buildings, no rooms, no windows—just sky enough to be a
poet.
Whether she is strolling, standing still, looking up or
down, or just looking, she never leads us to a stop sign, a
blind alley, or even a blinking light. We are carried along
into the richness of one special life in the city of millions.
vincent tripi
