Sunday, March 23, 2014

Group poems

These poems were written in response to images on Evoke Cards

Wonderful stuff - if you want to know about the process that leads to this see previous blog on writing workshop...


Our little world

 
It's a hard life.

Escapism.
 

Some of us more

fortunate than others.


Anticipation

            Freedom

Travel, 

to your own paradise

full of colour  rainbow

 
Tranquillity, lilacs,

freshness. 

He always brought me fuchsias,

a riot of colour.

Transformation.
 
 

Time for change

 

Despondent,
 
left on the shelf, again.
 
Sadness.

it was my turn for a cuddle.

 

Which path to take?

 
Choices.

 
Up,up and away.

Flutter in the breeze,

flying high -                         
                                    anew.

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Mapping a journey

Today saw my second writing workshop at the Lit and Phil. Today we explored experiences of health care and illness. We read some poetry and then drew maps
Below is mine - it represents some of the experience we had as a family nearly 14 years ago when Mum was taken seriously ill and ended up near death in ITU for many, many days.


 It is a subject I have wanted to explore in my writing but have not found a way in and I had a hunch that map drawing might be helpful - getting beyond words to start with...
At the end of the workshop we all wrote some short poems - cinquains mostly
Here is mine

News

Waiting
we are waiting
 signs, symptoms, ignoring

husband, four children, grandchildren
waiting