Tag Archive: Poetry

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Poetry Friday

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I have Somnath to thank for this wonderful poem today. You may not have noticed it in the comments section after our scars tell our stories, so I thought it worth producing again here.… Continue reading →

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Seeing through the eyes of a doctor

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I often write here of my love of poetry and its great power to capture what you are feeling in perhaps a single sentence. Alongside poetry, I am also in awe of the… Continue reading →

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Poetry Friday

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Instead of a poem for you this Friday, I would like to share with you a reflection on the nature of poetry written by AA Gill. It beautifully sums up what poetry means for me and… Continue reading →

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Poetry Friday

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I stood there taking in the sheen on the crow’s beaks, the heaving of the horse, the sire and fall of my father’s voice, the breeze driving clouds and tousling my hair, and… Continue reading →

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Poetry Friday

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To Risk To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement, To expose feelings is to risk exposing… Continue reading →

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Poetry Friday

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  Today’s poem was written for Poetry in Pink Breast Cancer fundraiser by Jani Rosado. On her website Musings and Scribbles, Jani states so eloquently that she writes ” to connect, to understand… Continue reading →

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Friday Poem

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A Summer Night A summer night. The moon’s face, almost full now, comes and goes through clouds. I can’t see any stars, but a late firefly still flicks his green lamp on and… Continue reading →

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Friday Poem

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Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt—marvelous error!— that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.… Continue reading →

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What the Living Do

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I have just finished reading a moving collection of poems by Marie Howe, called “What the Living Do”. The poems are a compassionate memorial to illness and the loss of Howe’s brother, John,… Continue reading →

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Blessing

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For all those who asked me to reprint the John O’Donoghue poem, Blessing, read by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the spiritual care conference: Beannacht (“Blessing”)   On the day when the weight deadens on… Continue reading →