With positive mental health, I don’t depend on slogans and ‘prescriptions, ‘
Or let myself be limited by negative projections and descriptions.
With positive mental health, I can show my ability and my vulnerability,
I can become more fully human, knowing that ‘joy and woe are woven fine.’
I can learn that patient waiting and creative reflection are just as important
as immediate success and constant striving.
I can devote myself to ‘living’ instead of just surviving.
POETRY AND TIME
Poetry can reveal
Depth in time,
The co-existence
Of past, present and future,
The moment of unity
And wholeness of Being.
Such poems are a celebration
Of the dance of creation.
Given fleeting form in the speaking,
They slip away into the night,
Defying immediate analysis
In favour of relationship –
Revealing hidden connections.
Old familiar words take on
New form and resonance,
Like old familiar rocks
That erode and blow as
Shifting sand into the desert.
Poetry is the time-lapse
Photography of the soul,
It relates the fragment
To the Whole
Tony Devaney