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Friday, 24 May 2013

On a Full Moon in May



 
Notes of a Therapist Part II

 
Our next meeting was on a night of a
Full May Moon, the time when the  planet’s
pull brings feelings bubbling to the surface.
For me it bode well, for her it was time
to broach her childhood; how would she describe it?
Were there things only a few knew that she
could and would willingly reveal to me?
Childhood was a storehouse of secrets she said
for she'd lived amidst a labyrinth of lies.
I asked how she'd coped.  She laughed because I
had for once made the therapist’s classic
mistake but she was kind and humoured me.
Sweet solitude was her saviour, she said,
along with music and learning and a
solid self-reliance. She said she read
all the time and she wrote copiously.
Books became friends and animals her constant
companions. She even talked to flies and
could make them leave a room (if she asked nicely).
I laughed until she told me Uri Geller
used to do the same. Laughter had loosened
us both.  Tissues for once were cast aside.

 
Cait O’Connor

 

 (Part 1 can be found here).

 

8 comments:

  1. Loved it, could Uri really do that?

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  2. I liked this second installment very much!

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  3. This was wonderful and I loved the photo with it as well.

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  4. Cait, you just turned the key on my storehouse.

    Thank you for sharing your love of John O'Donohue. I may love him more. What amazing words of wisdom to LIVE by.

    I really need to find my Anam Cara; desperately.

    love, from a member of the O'Connor clan.

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  5. Yes SAS I need to find my Anam Cara too. What a great loss was John's passing. So good to hear from one of my clan, thanks for calling by.

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  6. I loved that in the poem the two cast aside roles and were together.

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  7. Cait, hello from another admirer of full moons.

    Thank you for the poetry. I've returned to read it several times. xo

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