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Cloud Sonnet

Audio Recordings / tagged Bad Luck, Depression, Hopelessness, PTSD, Therapy, Trauma, War / November 13, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Al Capp had a character
in his Lil Abner comic strip
with no vowels in his name
and a rain cloud over his head

His name was Joe Btfsplk
and a good poster child for PTSD
which also has no vowels in it

A cloud our trauma is uploaded to
ever hovering and lighting striking
when atmospheric pressures change

The trick may be to learn relearn
it was supposed to be a comic strip
which wasn't meant to run forever
and better umbrellas available now

War Wounds

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Epigenetics, Memory, PTSD, Trauma, War / November 12, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There are, the epigenticists say
memories that haven't gone away

What happened to
your grandma when the troops came by
is still barbed-wire wrapped around your DNA

Dreams that aren't yours
neurons firing like the war's still on
and mines set off by a word or a touch

So please be gentle with one another
and your mother and your mother's mother

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Ken Christopher on War WoundsNovember 12, 2024
So true, the barbed wire 👍🏼
Niece Karen on Quaking in the AtticOctober 23, 2024
Perfect metaphor - you captured me perfectly!
Ken Christopher on God is Getting OnOctober 22, 2024
Anger contained in love
Murray on Feels of the Farm – FlaxOctober 15, 2024
Now that's vintage knowledge Neil!!!! Hope you're feeling much better. Your poem would suggest you are!!
Ken Christopher on Fowl SupperSeptember 22, 2024
Wonderful poem Neil

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