my message is to you

hope is your life
together we
hope
each looks after each
friendly nurses speak
look for
hope is swift exchange
my tablets my routine
hope for this
take pills like new ideas

swallow
hope
I listen to children’s advice
swallow’s wings
get on with life’s hour
accept
strokes hearts bowels propaganda
each other
what journey you’re facing
and what hope

do you get?
(would you like to join our discussion?)
everyone’s lonely in their own
true journey
hope is swift
can’t take it out
can’t shove it away
we’re all
in the end
swallow’s wings.

Group
Cherry Tree Hospital
2009

In cage like beds

another experiment, this time using a drawing of the large intestine and some of the poem, 'In cage like beds' by Maude Counter and Muriel Hardman. You can read the poem in full at http://patience-project.blogspot.com

For more of my illustrations please visit www.loisblackburn.co.uk

the inner part

in last week and three weeks before

bowel trouble

(nice)

test me kidneys

mind going round

which is what and what is

ignorance last week and three before

toboggans into bowel trouble

embarrassment

that you need

to tell them inner

things

(nice)

ungrateful bowels

heart and me blood test

results

unconvinced

test me test me trudges up

mind going round to ignorance again

anonymous 8th July 2009

image © Lois Blackburn 2010.

for more examples of arthur+martha poems, please visit http://arthur-and-martha-poems.blogspot.com/