Migraines and Their Remedies

by Sandra De Helen

Overview

Being a migraineur, having a child who suffers even more severely, I felt every word, every phrase, EVERY poem deeply, and have a few new remedies to consider. ~Mercedes Lewis, Poet, author of Glimpses of a Fractured Soul

This poem collection includes a range of emotions felt while experiencing migraine headaches. Pain? Yes, and sorrow, anger, hopelessness. But the poems were written to help the poet survive the pain-to have hope for a cure, an end to the suffering. Readers may relate to the pain, because haven't we all suffered? At its core, the collection shows us we are all in this together.

Table of Contents

Author's Foreword

Dedication

1. Migraine

2. Migraine Wake-Up Call

3. Surgery

4. Bad Company

5. Migraine senryu

6. Midnight Migraines

7. Migraine Againe

8. Migraine Haiku

9. Saturday Night Dance

10. Whatever it Takes

11. Monster

12. The Spiral Staircase

13. Hold Back the Dawn

14. Two-Day Headache Binge

15. Migraine Day Three

16. Another Headache Poem

17. The Lost Weekend

18. To M

19. Little Visits

20. Migraines Might Slow You Down

21. A True Story

22. The Worst

Afterword

About the Author

Other books in Poetry for the New Millennium series

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781633040571
Publisher:	Launch Point Press
Publication date:	06/30/2023
Series:	Poetry for the New Millennium , #6
Pages:	62
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.15(d)

About the Author

Sandra de Helen published her first poem at the age of fourteen. Her English teacher, Janice Wallace, submitted the poem to a teacher's magazine and surprised Sandra with a copy in print. The poem was about abortion, which was illegal at the time (and may be again soon in this country).In her twenties, Sandra published a few poems in newspapers, which spurred her to take a Creative Writing Class at the local community college. The [male] professor predicted she would never make a good poet because she didn't "write like a man." The next year she joined the women's movement and turned to writing plays. Forty years later, she picked up Sage Cohen's book, Writing the Life Poetic: An Invitation to Read and Write Poetry, and resumed writing poems like a woman. Sandra also writes novels, essays, theater reviews, and a weekly newsletter.Sandra is a long-time resident of Portland, Oregon, where she lives with her daughter, chickens, and cats.