FROM THE BOOK: "INVERSE FEEDBACK - AN ALTERNATIVE PSYCHO-SOCIAL THERAPY?"
B. WITHERS 1995. (P11)
WEENY WAILS OF WOE
If you depart my little home
try just before you go
to impart your minor moans
and weeny wails of woe.
For these will help me formulate
a poem just for you
and please this craving to create
another verse or two.
All those feelings I collect
rearranging into rhyme
moving meanings to connect
in space and place and time.
I wish my words would put things right
if only for a day.
If they were heard perhaps they might
when wound and bound this way.
A rhyme in time can mend your mind
when you are sorely pained.
For in those lines you often find
so many things explained.
The sea on which a sonnet sails
has dangers by the score.
Yet it seems it rarely fails
to tame the tempest's roar.
So when life's waves all churn up rough
and cannot get much worse.
A poet's pen might be enough
to turn things round, in-verse
B. Withers 1993
B. WITHERS 1995. (P11)
WEENY WAILS OF WOE
If you depart my little home
try just before you go
to impart your minor moans
and weeny wails of woe.
For these will help me formulate
a poem just for you
and please this craving to create
another verse or two.
All those feelings I collect
rearranging into rhyme
moving meanings to connect
in space and place and time.
I wish my words would put things right
if only for a day.
If they were heard perhaps they might
when wound and bound this way.
A rhyme in time can mend your mind
when you are sorely pained.
For in those lines you often find
so many things explained.
The sea on which a sonnet sails
has dangers by the score.
Yet it seems it rarely fails
to tame the tempest's roar.
So when life's waves all churn up rough
and cannot get much worse.
A poet's pen might be enough
to turn things round, in-verse
B. Withers 1993
