This poem is an instrument of healing.
This poem is a recipe for recovery.
This poem is filled and surrounded with
light.
This poem must be read with an open
heart.
You can take it into you, into that
heart,
then let it spread it throughout your
body.
Now see it extend as a cloak to embrace
you.
This poem is an instrument of healing.
This poem is a set of instructions
which you can follow step by step.
Try not to vary the key ingredients.
You want the taste just right, and the
nutrients.
This poem is a recipe for recovery.
This poem is soft yet radiant.
It is all-pervasive, but you can direct
it.
Look at the colour. It is blueish-white.
Or is it in fact whitish-blue? Ah yes!
This poem is filled and surrounded with
light.
This poem is yours, your instrument of
healing.
This poem is a secret recipe I share for
your recovery.
This poem, if you let it, will fill and
surround you with light.
This poem is an example of Hannah
Gosselin’s Boomerang Metaphors.
This poem was written for Susan’s ‘Recovery/Healing’Midweek Motif at Poets United.
What a refreshing and motivational piece. Healing is a necessary process for growth indeed.
ReplyDeleteNIce if we could always do it with poetry. (Smile.)
DeleteLovely writing, Rosemary. Light (as energy or as poetry) is definitely such a healing force. It is a good thing to seek out both.
ReplyDeleteThis is absolutely gorgeous. It has all the things I love about a poem - it is uplifting, makes the reader feel really good, and it is in Hannah's wonderful boomerang form. This poem is a TOTAL HIT!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteExcellent! This poem may heals better than a spoonful of medicine in the grayness of time as it carries Light and meditation and spellbinding repetition of goodness and love.
ReplyDeleteI love the way a poem can bend, transform and morph. A living creation.
ReplyDeletethe beautiful content and Hannah's form complement each other...a touching poem....
ReplyDeleteIf all healing were only as easy as folllowing directions, a recipe. I rather like the questioning of the color of the light, it made me chuckle, because if healing did happen - would the color of the light really matter?
ReplyDeleteSome people think different colours have different properties – in which case it might.
DeleteReading poetry is great therapy for any ill.
ReplyDeleteI love your positive healing poem.Poetry really can aid in recovery.
ReplyDeleteThis poem is simply wonderful Rosemary (I read De's interview and was introduced to the idea of using 'This poem' as a start).. what I take away is that your poem gives us the permission to make it what we need..maybe to write our own version - always to appreciate and enjoy the healing power of words
ReplyDeleteVery true. (One of Susan's requests was to write 'a poem that heals'.)
DeleteGood poetry does offer simple solace and it opens up the senses; is it poetic medication?
ReplyDeleteA lovely one indeed., Rosemary!
Such a beautifully uplifting piece :D :D
ReplyDeleteA poem that encompassed all that one prayed for. A medicine that healed!
ReplyDeleteHank
Beautiful and motivating!
ReplyDeletePerfect. Just perfect.
ReplyDeleteoh I love the image of a poem spreading through the body. That's exactly what a good poem feels like x
ReplyDeletethis is a poem of recovery indeed. thanks for the warmth in it. bless your heart.
ReplyDeleteThis poem is beautiful, and filled with just the right
ReplyDeleteamount of life-giving light.
A lovely poem.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous !
ReplyDeleteReally healing poem, so positive and energetic! Lots of light!
ReplyDeleteHealing and surrounding with light indeed...oh my what a gem this is and I'm thrilled to see you bring the Boomerang...you worked it so well, Rosemary!! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI love the Boomerang! (Smile.) It was perfect for this poem.
DeleteWhat a gorgeous poem, Rosemary. It filled me with light.
ReplyDeleteOh good, it worked! :-)
DeleteI am head over heels in love with your poem ~~ and Hannah's form. Brava.
ReplyDeleteNicely penned, Rpsemary! I'd rather read your poem than swallow a handful of tablets.
ReplyDeleteThis reads like a meta meditation, Rosemary. I love it.
ReplyDeleteThe image from the other poem of the lady alone in the dark... this is the poem for her.. to heal and become the light... I would love to learn that recipe too!!
ReplyDeleteYou can think, and visualise... :)
DeleteYou can think, and visualise... :)
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