remembering
warm burned
conjuring enjoying triggering
grounding imprisoning disorienting liberating
allowing forgiving detaching
present absent
forgetting
In the trauma support group I’m attending, we need to dig into memories, then write and talk about them. You can guess some of the emotions that are triggered while doing it. Our teacher/mentor said her teacher/mentor told her, “you don’t want to skin the patient. You pick at the edges very slowly.” Today on my drive through water winter wonderland (one of Michigan’s State nicknames) I started thinking about memories.
Today’s offering is a diamante form poem, which I think is a good fit for the topic.
Lillian is today’s host for dVerse. Lillian says:
Lillian here and it’s OLN time again at dVerse! That means you can post one poem of your choosing – no prompt, no form required etc. So have at it folks!
Image: “Memory Blackbird” by AK Rockefeller
Tao Talk 
This is almost a stream-of-consciousness stringing of words and reflections….what I imagine it is like to meditate sometimes….to recall so we can heal.
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Glad you connected with it, Lillian.
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Great form! Almost stream of consciousness thinking,
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Thanks, Toni. It pretty much is. The conclusion I drew is that there are pluses and minuses to both of them…
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This is so evocative! ❤️
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Sanaa, thank you, glad it connected with you.
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I like how you moved from remembering to forgetting.
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Thank you, Frank.
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Great word play.
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Thank you, Sadje :)
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You’re welcome Li.
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I think letting go of past experiences and traumas is very difficult!
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I like how your poem expresses process. Moving through emotions can be so very difficult. Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you, Ali.
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the whole gambit of emotions as that kind of therapy will evoke … take care Lisa!
Spoil yourself to balance it out.
Love the artwork :)
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Thanks for reading and commenting, Kate. Good advice :)
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you’re most welcome Lisa .. good luck and bravo for undertaking this!
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<3 I appreciate that, thank you.
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it’s huge and I pray you have a helpful resolution :)
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Your stream of consciousness in a nutshell is visual, Jade, and the continuous verb form makes it circular, emphasising the ebb and flow of emotions.
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I like that description, Kim :)
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a creative and deep take of this form! really a good one!
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Thank you Reading Writer!
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You’re welcome!
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I see one leading to the other, and back, with that return to remembering accompanied by understanding.
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Ideally it works out that way. At times it will never “make sense.” Those are the knots that need work to untease in their own way.
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Your words come full circle Lisa, which is so true of what we do in life.
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Thanks very much for reading and commenting, Linda.
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Really nicely done word play !
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Thank you, Chris :)
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I find that the poem is a mantra repeated while you gently peel the layers of memory… and if you see it as an onion… there will be tears.
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It is like a mantra now that you say that, and yes, there are tears…
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I suppose one can’t forget until one remembers. Your poem forms a sort of circle
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Yes, Merril and you got it on the circle. With the form you start at a noun or subject and go halfway, then either choose a synonym or an antonym and complete. Although I chose an antonym, through both halves are opposites. The “good” and the “bad” of each.
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p.s. Thank you for reading and commenting.
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You’re very welcome.
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