Contributed by: Cherie E. Bryant , Alpha Sigma, Norman, OK Source: Author - Unknown |
Just an old woman? No! |
I write poetry from time to time and have done it since I was young. I also read it with a passion as if it were a painted canvas in need of attention. As a artist, I look at poetry as art and beauty of one's soul. In order to understand, you must go beyond the words and take on its meaning. The poet is not just writing, he/she is painting a scene, memory or idea. The meaning for which those words come to us grows as we do. Take a poem that you read as a child, now read the poem now. What changed and why? This is something I thought was worth sharing - Below. Sent to me from Cherie E. Bryant , Author - Unknown. Karen Ing When an old lady died in the geriatric ward of a small hospital near Dundee, Scotland, it was felt that she had nothing left of any value. Later, when the nurses were going through her meager possessions, they found this poem. Its quality and content so impressed the staff that copies were made and distributed to every nurse in the hospital. One nurse took her copy to Ireland. The old lady's sole bequest to posterity has since appeared in the Christmas edition of the News Magazine of the North Ireland Association for Mental Health. A slide presentation has also been made based on her simple, but eloquent, poem. And this little old Scottish lady, with nothing left to give to the world, is now the authoress of this "anonymous" poem winging across the Internet. Goes to show that we all leave "SOME footprints in time"..... An Old Lady's PoemWhat do you see, nurses, what do you see? Then open your eyes, nurse; you're not looking at me. Dark days are upon me, my husband is dead; Remember this poem when you next meet an old person whom you might be tempted to brush aside, without looking at the young soul within ...... God willing. |
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