Poetry About Illness And Love
Table of contents for Poets And Their Poetry
- Poetry About Illness And Love
- Writing A Note To Someone/ A Poem
Patricia Kirkpatrick was gracious enough to let me reproduce her poem here. And I have been sitting here reading it many times.
I would have a difficult time letting someone I did not know publish one of my poems on their blog. My poems are like my children. I would not want to let one of them off just anywhere. So I will do my best to take care of the poem .
Why am I drawn to this poem? Possibly because it is about this object that lives in my head and yours. I call it a “bag of tricks” and give it medication so it will feel well. Many times I have not treated it well. And it lets me know when that is the case by giving me a migraine headache.
We have a difficult relationship. But this brain has never produced a tumor or allowed one to grow. At least I am not aware that this has happened. How difficult must it be to deal with something like this?
I really like the way the author sums up her experience. “We looked out the window…..”. These words are graceful and light. The poem is flying as it ends along with the snow flakes and “those white, fringed birds”.
We are all lifted up by this. It is a new season. It is a new year and a chance for a new beginning for all of us. And we should be grateful that we can look out into the world and see things that are beautiful. I cannot take this for granted.
How much blood have we left along the paths we have taken? And if we need more someone we don’t even know will give it to us. How wonderful that someone would do this! We are in this together like the patient and her nurse.
It is too easy to forget that this is the case.
http://davidnotes.com/2008/01/13/writing-a-note-to-someone-a-poem/
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