Poetry for all – That’s the Spirit
As a pre-launch to my book Tarot and Oracle Craft – Psychic Questing for Real, my publisher, Stairwell Books, invited me to participate in their annual Poetry for all evening.
“For All” meaning poems written and performed by the disabled,
LGBTQ+ and those who are neurodivergent.
Considering my sight loss and MS etc, it felt quite appropriate to be there.
To see the evening follow this link: BSL signers and poems projected
on a screen included.
https://youtube.com/live/g2lCTotZQGE?feature=share
I don’t write poetry so I asked my good friend, Teny Amey if
I could read one of his.
“Healers”
Healers by Tony Amey
Why do our healers so often seem sick
And hobble along on a frame or a stick?
If each has the power of bringing good health
They’d surely then turn it back onto themselves
Or if that power must apply to some other
They could just form a circle for healing each other
Every week at the service, we bow and we pray
For spiritual healing to all that we say
For the world and its creatures, for famine and war
For the names that we put in our book by the door
Same thing every time, same prayer so appealing
Same victims endure with no sign of their healing
Maybe we just need to try a new wave
That we dilute the power with so many to save
If we pick out the worst, most needing relief
And then focus all of our prayers and belief
On the one we elected, the cause of the week
Perhaps their prognosis won’t be quite so bleak
It may not seem kind but you know it makes sense
To focus all power through a narrower lens
Overlooking the blisters and simple limb strains
For those in the agonies of life-changing pains
There’s just too much ill in the world of today
For spiritual healing to fix all that we pray
So let’s try it out and look for the proof
That cancer like magic can simply go Poof
Let us all pray for one deserving strong case
And focus all healing on just that one place
So then if that works we then have a clue
And can work down the list ‘til we end up with you










