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• Ooops, all the lines fell out

  Ooops, all the lines fell out of the above poem when I posted it.

  Posted by Arnold Porter March 31, 2011 18:23:38

• This is an interesting

  This is an interesting artlcle. As a hospice counsellor who writes poetry, I am interested in your project and to its applicability to our work here at Victoria Hospice. Perhaps you could tell me whaty the two assignments you offer your patients are (besides the offer to write a poem for them? Thank you for your help
  
  Here's a poem of mine so you can see what I'm doing. Arnold
  
  A THOUSAND
  
  A thousand houses,
  A thousand trinkets:
  Paintings, knickknacks, Christmas cards,
  Pictures of family, of kids growing up,
  A thousand beds,
  A thousand families,
  Sons, Daughters, Husbands, Wives,
  Caring, distraught, laughing, crying,
  Counting time in days,
  As sunlight comes and goes
  Across the carpets
  Across the walls,
  As the moon and street lamps
  Shine in the windows.
  A thousand pill bottles
  A thousand bouquets
  A thousand injections
  As a thousand actors take their bow and
  —in their own way—
  Leave this stage.
  
  
  A. Porter

  Posted by Arnold Porter March 31, 2011 18:14:52