Dramatis persona*

helenhead Helen Chick

I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"!

I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1!

* Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona.
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5. Seeking Solace [100 poems challenge]

 

5.          Seeking Solace

Last night
I cried
Like a child:
Silent sobs
That made me tremble.
I tossed
And turned,
And took deep breaths
To calm me down,
But still I screamed out
Quietly
So as not to wake anyone.

That’s why
Nobody came
To comfort me
And stroke the hair
Beside my ear
Until I fell asleep.

I slept anyway
And the sun rose in the morning
As it always does.

6 February 1991

 

Comments: I promise not to do this often (indeed, I hope this will be the only one), but this one is a cheat. I actually wrote it back in 1991, but it fitted the theme so well, and it’s a poem I like. I wrote quite a few poems in the 1980s and early 1990s, but the frequency of my output has declined since then, which is partly why the 100 poems challenge appealed to me because I had enjoyed writing those early pieces. This poem makes reference to my experiences with nightmares when I was little, when my Mum used to come into my room and stroke my head until I settled. There’s a sense in which it’s a counterpoint to “Dark”.

Themes to come: 6. Break Away; 7. Heaven; 8. Innocence; 9. Drive; 10. Breathe Again

Explanation about the 100 poems challenge here.

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