“Elaine was a really close friend and we had watched her as she bravely lived with cancer for the last 15 years before she died'
A Co Antrim man has opened up on how he is using poetry to help him and others following the loss of a dear friend to cancer.
“Most of her working life was as an English teacher at Carrickfergus Grammar, and as a young woman she would set off every summer on her motorbike to explore Europe. Later she expanded her range and over a lifetime explored some of the globe's most remote corners. Even when the cancer curtailed her abilities she still determinedly did what she could manage, always with a positive outlook.”
“That might mean sitting with them in the hospice garden, or arranging for their pet to visit them at the hospice. They focus on the special things that bring people joy.” “So when I delved into that shoe box and began messing around with the ideas there, I rediscovered the pleasure of being creative. I even went so far as to try out some of the poems on my good friend and published poet and writer Philip Orr and was more than pleasantly surprised by his favourable reaction and encouragement.”
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