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Poetic Medicine Anthology

Poems written in our Poetic Medicine Workshops

October 25, 2024
Wounded Healer

Not Giving Up

 

Last three years COVID

and dating post fifty

My mind a slate sky

I want the Zen master’s

empty mind

so I can emerge

from wicked winter 

through the fuchsia tunnel

to a warmer spring rain

 

June 2024

October 25, 2024
Wounded Healer

What Sustains 

 

Another hand open 

To walk beside us

The care that does not abandon

That understands the tears of the other

How we can be broken and still be held

Not for a moment but a lifetime

Should we be this lucky

 

May 2024

 

October 25, 2024
Wounded Healer

Dungeon

 

Fears that have shackled you too long

A blessing you cannot see coming

Maybe you are gathering yourself

Letting the walls of pain

that have been slowly closing in

crumble

 

April 2024

 

October 25, 2024
Wounded Healer

It is never too late

 

To find a love that lasts

It’s never too late 

To watch how the milkweed and purple irises

Bend towards each other

 

It’s never too late to trudge

Step by difficult step

Away from the throes of fear and anxiety

To hear the woodthrush’s sliver of promise

Greeting the spring morning

 

Telling myself even in tortured times

Divorce at forty, dating past fifty

Step by slow step

Maybe fear one day...

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October 25, 2024
Wounded Healer

How Long 

Dating random guys who don’t seem to care

Always chasing the next shiny object

Some rude like North Carolina

Speaking to me for seven months, meeting me

Then going back, ghosting me

A term I only recently learned

Turning me into a shade

The St. Louis doctor’s voice turns curt

When he says he can’t meet me in April

I’m kinder than these guys, I care

 

But my desperation to have a ring on my finger

Is driving me into eddies of anxiety and despair

...

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