Amanda (l) with Companions Pat and Sarah, and volunteer Diana. Here is a list of our favorite poems from this year’s Tuesday Poetry Lunch. Amanda Solche comes each week with a poem. Yesterday was her last day for this school year. She will be back in the...
WHAT DO I SEE IN FRONT OF ME? – Anonymous I see many white things. Those things would be an apartment building that has at least 20 window, painted lines, arrows, and crosswalks along with frames of the windows and doors, and the porches and poles at Healey...
A Poem About Listening (Ray Houghton, M.D.) Please, just listen. When I ask you to listen to me, and you start giving advice, you have not done what I asked. When I ask you to listen to me, and you begin to tell me why I shouldn’t feel that way, you are...
Ed note: Every Tuesday Amanda Solch, a Bates student who volunteers at the center, brings a poem for lunch. This week we read and discussed “I’m Alive, I Believe in Everything” by Lesley Choyce. We then wrote a group poem in the same style....
Women’s faces, Seeking….. Peace Acceptance Embraces? Women’s eyes Searching….. Fearful, Courageous, Wise. A step through the door Means a step to new life; Breathing freely Finding others Learning new ways Beginning new days Seeing oneself in a different light. Who...
For women abused, and women used, For women in tears and women with fears, For women neglected and women not respected, For women despised and women patronized, For women here and women everywhere, May they know Your loving presence among them, through us. Amen....
