Today Adrienne took us through a Body Scan practice, opening with a poem:
Julia Fehrenbacher's "The Message"
and she finished the session with another of her's called "The Cure for it All"
Bev took a wander through WH Auden's prophecy about the self induced anaesthesia of the masses, citing the poem "September 1, 1939" ... here's an excerpt:
Faces along the bar
Cling to their average day:
The lights must never go out,
The music must always play,
All the conventions conspire
To make this fort assume
The furniture of home;
Lest we should see where we are,
Lost in a haunted wood,
Children afraid of the night
Who have never been happy or good.
Balm for this came from John O’Donohue's Anam Cara: "hearth and homecoming"
and further advice from Cathie Sandstrom's "Standing Up in a Slim Boat"
a poem that was inspired by Tomas Tranströme
Today's writing prompt came from Toby Litt's poem "At the edge of the field
by Toby Litt
(or is the title "The Hare"? sorry - can't find a link to it online but the BBC reading of it is still live.
... at the edge of the light, I will wait for you there...
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Congratulations to our writer, Karen Forbes, on the staging of her play "Barbed Wire and Teddy Bears"
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