Creative works – Poetry

Insights meetings have sometimes involved creative writing workshops and works being shared and read. The poems here have been written by some of our members.

Mental Illness: A Cosmonaut’s Account

We live for dreams.
And so it was that I,
One day,
A time ago,
Stepped out for my craft….

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Moon resurrection

I have travelled out
To where stars, unseen from near the Earth’s merciless grasp,
Glimmer and hold true
Even as my pulsing heart.
And, it is true,….

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The night I learnt to dance

The night I learnt to dance, I danced once with the girl with the flaming hair,
Then she, sensibly enough, got up to dance with another.
I had been at this place many times before,
The one you wanted to dance with dancing with another,
And all the poison of regret and self-loathing building up in you.

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Her tomorrow self will thank him

At the moment her pain rises in her again and again
And with each rising of the pain,
The wounds appear on her body
And she has no words for love and truth,
But her tomorrow self will see him….

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The path of the moon through the night sky

It is always so.
The falling of the moon into the spell of night,
Its act if being caught and held in dear embrace by the sun’s rays,
And the hurling out again across the sky,
From full moon through darkness to full moon again…..

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Catch it before it flies

Through the horror of mischance,
And the pain of regret,
God speaks,
And says one thing:
“This is life,

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This unstoppable joy

Some would tell you life fits only into a formulated joy,
But they are mostly those,
Who have not skirted the bounds of joy themselves

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