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” 

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

 

 During the interval I collected from donations for the MS Society. The interval was rather short for many readings! However I did do a reading as the event closed. I feel that that was the one that I had to do – it was very much needed.

 I wasn’t the only “star” – everyone was. The event itself was very well starred:

The heavens were with us. Look at Jupiter bang on the ascendant in mutual reception with the Moon in Pisces Spirit and poetry, the 9th house - that of broacasting and spirituality. Neptune is not far away  the mystical magic of words in this case. What a beautiful chart.