Remedy for Grief
Go to the beach
Wear purple
Sit on a sidewalk
Skip to the mailbox
Dance to Steve Winwood’s
Higher Love
Rub a genie’s lamp
Buy postage stamps
with tulips on them
Color in your doodles
with highlighter pens
Dream about roses
Press four-leaf clovers
Kiss and tell the whole truth
_____________Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United
August 25th, 2023 12:09 am
That genie’s lamp is most needed with about a gazzilion wishes… or at least a dozen!!!! Might just search for a highlighter while I wait 🙂
August 25th, 2023 1:25 am
A great remedy My favourites:
‘Rub a genie’s lamp’ and ‘Kiss and tell the whole truth’
August 25th, 2023 7:02 am
This is so fantastic. I wish it were for a prompt and everyone would write a poem like this. ♡
August 25th, 2023 8:01 am
Colour me purple, any day… ♥
August 25th, 2023 10:01 am
Wonderful! Can’t wait to start colouring in my doodles – even though I am not depressed.
August 25th, 2023 12:20 pm
Oh, boy…that last one is a keeper. I vaguely remember skipping all the time. Along with cartwheels which would probably break my leg now! I always enjoy reading your work. Not sure I’ll get around to this prompt but muscle memory is a good one.
August 26th, 2023 10:13 am
I love the postage stamps one. I recently bought some with elephants on them. Makes me happy when I see it on a letters I send.
August 26th, 2023 7:30 pm
Kissing and telling sounds like fantastic remedy. The same goes for coloring…
August 27th, 2023 4:15 am
I do hope these remedies work. I can’t believe that a smile like your is ever depressed.
But . . . with purple, shouldn’t you wear ‘a red hat that doesn’t go.’ Look for the poem “Warning” by Jenny Joseph.
August 27th, 2023 12:21 pm
Good remedies and your last lines really resonate……dream about roses…..kiss and tell the whole truth…….works ….always
August 27th, 2023 1:59 pm
This delightful poem begs (truly) me to remain seated at my computer ~~ write my own list of “must-dos.”
August 27th, 2023 5:15 pm
Jenny’s red hat lady in purple also sat on the sidewalk and ate a stick of butter!
August 28th, 2023 10:45 am
I’m already wearing purple. I think I need to get a genies lamp.
August 28th, 2023 11:52 am
Very nice indeed!!!
September 1st, 2023 7:51 pm
All excellent suggestions, Colleen!