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    Try This, It Might Help: Poetry and Verse
    Try This, It Might Help: Poetry and Verse
    Try This, It Might Help: Poetry and Verse
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    Try This, It Might Help: Poetry and Verse

    By Catherine West-McGrath

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    A collection of forty poems and lyrics with words on love, relationships, self-compassion, confidence, happiness, optimism, connection, society, resilience, empathy, memory, faith, hope and more.

     

     


     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParks & Mews
    Release dateFeb 8, 2024
    ISBN9798224013456
    Try This, It Might Help: Poetry and Verse
    Author

    Catherine West-McGrath

    Catherine West-McGrath is a singer-songwriter, poet and writer. She lives in Lancashire, England.

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      Try This, It Might Help - Catherine West-McGrath

      Try This It Might Help

      One person

      Listens

      They hear

      Their feelings

      Their moments

      Told through

      Your words

      ––––––––

      One person

      Begins to see

      Their story

      Is not unique

      Their treatment

      Was not

      Unusual

      ––––––––

      One person

      Understands

      They are

      Connected

      To you if only

      Through a shared

      Experience

      ––––––––

      One person

      Opens the window

      The breeze of a new day

      Brushing their face

      Because of you

      They know

      They are not alone

      The Reporter

      She gathered stories

      Found traces made links

      Drew pictures

      ––––––––

      Released words in bits

      Edited headlines

      Neat introductions

      Summaries

      ––––––––

      Enticed readers

      Her own hidden

      Under newsprint in a corner

      Lifted one day

      ––––––––

      To find a lost shoe

      There it was Hers alone

      Discoloured paper

      Folded in her old diary

      I'm Not Dancing

      Just because I know these steps

      Doesn't mean I have to dance

      I used to move so easily

      When you gave me the chance

      ––––––––

      I watched myself from deep

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