The history, development, and evaluation of Poems in the Waiting Room (PitWR) are provided in this report. This programme (a registered charity in the UK) supplies free poetry cards for patients to read while waiting to see their doctor. Preliminary research findings indicate that PitWR ...
in the waiting room of life tangles in the ball of memories intently weaves each day as if it were the last Holidays Mom you left me emptiness guilt and regret you've gone without saying goodbye without a luggage lonely free Returns
I am the Ethiopia that "stretches her hands in supplication to God". I am the mother of the tallest traveller on the longest journey on Earth! My name is Africa, I am the mother of the Nile. O Nile, my prodigal daughter in the wilderness of the desert, bringing God's harmony to al...
until The Great White Hope in 1970, I hadn’t even know his name and wouldn’t have been able to tell you he had been in the earlier movies. Now, like most everyone
in On Quantitative Metre Ocean Oneness Trance of Waiting Flame-Wind The River Journey's End The Dream Boat Soul in the Ignorance The Witness and the Wheel Descent The Lost Boat Renewal Soul's Scene Ascent The Tiger and the Deer Three Sonnets Man the Enigma The Infinitesimal Infinite The ...
Will he sit alone in his daughter’s room Filled with love and happiness…sadness? No, content. A deep breath will help him stand As I do now, and I walk with trembling lips And chin held high. I leave this room. I close the door. ADVERTISEMENT 12/42 “My Wedding Day” (poem fro...
The labors that were not in vain Gave stimuli, fruitful and rife. As student, as teacher, as man. The seasons so quickly have flown; The cycles of time swiftly ran And taken dear friends I have known. And soon will I turn to the west, ...
just like waking up in the morning……….i said” Simple statements but thought-provoking. The poem that gives the section its title, “curse this blue raincoat” ends, “i prayfor a response……….to temptation to the evils……….in the bloodstreamthe perils of knowledge……….to 1969...
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: [...] If you can fill the unforgiving minute ...
Unfortunately, I experienced some sexual abuse. It was a known and admitted fact of life amongst us that there was this particular man, and you didn’t want to be left in the dressing room with him. It took many years to come to terms with it and to forgive those incidents that I fe...