Thank You Heaton Publications Blog Readers! Thank you, Dear Heaton Publications Blog Readers, for your sticking with us, now in our fourth year publishing our Blog. Our New Year’s 2020 wishes to each of you are for a happy, healthy, sustainable Two Thousand and Twenty! We will continue to write on the topics of Poetry, Parks and Planet, the first post of this New Year dealing with poetry, specifically:
Can poetry be the healing balm that you’ve been searching for?
Can Poetry Be The Healing Balm?
Can poetry be the healing balm that you’ve been searching for?
Vicki Field has answered that in our first post out the door;
Like many/most/all needing to replace divisive, incessant heartburn,
She chose instead to write a poem with love replacing the churn.
© Forrest W. Heaton 2 January 2020
Vicki & David Field are friends living in Fearrington Village, NC, the neighborhood from which Mary & I moved in 2019 to our apartment in Galloway Ridge (just a stone’s throw between the two.) We opened our 2019 blog posts with a 5Jan19 post entitled Twice the Lift which featured the Field’s practice of giving a Christmas gift of David’s chocolate chip cookies with an accompanying poem by Vicki. Our purpose was to encourage you Dear Readers to consider occasionally writing and including a poem with a gift you’re giving to someone—thus the gift and the poem creating “twice the lift.”
We heard from readers that they liked the idea. Thus, it seems only appropriate to open this year in the same manner. In 2013, we self-published an eBook entitled The Sixty-Minute Poet available on Amazon for $9.95 that teaches the reader in a brief 60-minutes how to write a poem. Although you don’t need to read our book to begin or improve your poem-writing, it might help. We asked Vicki how she began her poetry-writing. Her answer is inspiring: “My Christmas poems began after my Mom died, at age 95, leaving us with a hole in our hearts and a folder of her original, and beloved, family Christmas poems. As a tribute, I kept the practice alive, crafting little poems as gifts for family and friends. Now, each Christmas, as David (aka Mr. Field…) bakes up over 1000 chocolate chip cookies to give as gifts, I keep Mom close and bravely pen a poem to accompany them!”
Here is Vicki’s Christmas 2019 poem to accompany David’s cookies:
Christmas, 2019
Lying, cheating, unending scandal!
The locked horns and venom are too much
to handle.
Our hearts are torn. Our brains are fried.
We’re tired of asking, “Why, why, why?”
D turns on the oven and mixes the batter!
He pours chocolate chips.
Our hearts pitter patter.
For baking and wrapping and sending
sweet treats
to people we love always defeats
life’s dangerous curves, and valleys of fear.
And serves up a spark of bright
holiday cheer.
So, know that this gift is a gift for us too.
It opens our hearts.
affirming what’s true.
Sending love to savor!
Vicki and David
