April is Poetry Recognition Month by Celeste Cooper

Take a Stand by Celeste Cooper 

Swirling ideas, each significant to plan.

Upholding brave principles and taking a stand.

Provisions of nature and all living things

Gives fortitude, fulfillment of what life can bring.

Taste the climb; take pause, ageless, forever;

Ours for the taking–precious gift to endeavor.

Inherited by forefathers, a guide for our path,

Achievement secured when we learn from the past.

So stand up we shall, securing our position;

When acted on, they are more than conditions.

Comrades, principles, nature, history, at hand

Are the tools that endure when taking a stand.

Excerpt from Broken Body, Wounded Spirit: Balancing the See-Saw of Chronic Pain, SPRING DEVOTIONS, here.

  

"Poetry is writing about yourself waiting

to see what will show up, the words are

the finger points of your soul.”  

~Sandford Lyne, author of

Writing Poetry from the Inside Out

Inner Expression:

 Coping with Pain and Fatigue through Poetry

Coping with chronic pain is challenging. Maintaining forward momentum in the face of unpredictable symptoms and fatigue is daunting.

Poetry is a conduit to our soul, providing energy to hurtle over the many obstacles we meet in life. It provides an endless path by heightening our senses: sight, sound, touch, and smell. It is the feel, the texture, and all that may not be present but is in the mind. Poetry knows no time, no era, no restraints; it is an ever-present expression of self or circumstances through the written word...

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(Signature line appended, March 2018)

In healing,

Celeste Cooper, RN / Author, Freelancer, Advocate

Think adversity?-See opportunity!

http://www.CelesteCooper.com