Welcome to the Poetry Pharmacy.
“poetry evolved to save us from ourselves. It questions our understanding of what it means to be human and, in the process, deepens our humanity” Martin Farawell
We love the power of poetry to soothe, provide perspective and to share with each other. Here are some lines of poetry that the people connected to The Listening Space have gathered in our baskets of nourishment.
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Heroes
by Robert Ilson
Achilles, bathed in River Styx,
Thought him immune to sword and spear
Siegfried, immersed in dragon’s blood,
Considered he had nought to fear.
Boy were those heroes ever wrong !
Each had an unprotected part
Achilles’ heel and Siegfried’s back
Gave entry to their killer’s dart.
I’ve no more right to live than they
All of me, though, sensing success
Feels safer with my latest jab
From our Heroic NHS.
So Many Ways to Do It Right
by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
This longing to get it right —
to not only find the right path
but to walk it with grace,
without stalling, without stumbling.
But the forest is dark and deep
and the paths are many —
A Portable Paradise
by Roger Robinson
And if I speak of Paradise,
then I’m speaking of my grandmother
who told me to carry it always
on my person, concealed, so