Elisabeth Sweet

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glimmers of gratitude

03 Feb 202334 EDITIONS

On October 4, 2022, I began a poetic discipline which I dubbed glimmers of gratitude. The plan was to write, visualize, and mint a haiku on-chain, on Tezos via 8scribo everyday for 31 days. I was motivated by the sheer wonder at where I was on October 4, 2022 compared to where I had been on October 4, 2021. That day in 2021, I started self-publishing my poetry, and I didn’t know any poets. Three hundred sixty-five days later, I was interviewing an internationally acclaimed conceptual poet and I worked closely with some of the most daring and ambitious poets of our time. Gratitude washed over me. As an ode to gratitude and good fortune, I vowed to write and visualize 17 syllables for 31 days. During those 31 days, life challenged my grip on gratitude. Sudden death and injury made me search for gratitude like god in a hurricane. I can’t say if I found god, but I can say that I made it through the storm. And I have haikus minted on-chain as proof.

Elisabeth Sweet

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