---

Line Gauthier | + Follow Poet |
Free verse | + Fav Poem | Comment | Email | Print |

---

Flash Memory Therapy

Listen to poem:

Grab a blank sketch book and call it your own
Create your personal memory album
It’s fun, creative, therapeutic, and shareable

Your eyes will light up each time you share memories
Your heart will tingle as you turn the pages
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll travel back in time
‘Cause memories are meant to be remembered

Take your book and sketch your favourite memories
The object is not to produce works of art but
To evoke the feelings related to each moment in time
Draw stickmen and cartoons but mostly
Exaggerate details to get each feeling across

Even with unpleasant memories
The ones that haunt you because
You still see them through a child’s eye 
I found the adult in me wanting to step in 
And protect my inner child
There was a soothing healing happening
And I felt much lighter about it all

Better than a camera, you hold the pencil
Drop irrelevant details, expand on the relevant ones
Tweak the images in your mind and put them on paper
Feel free to add key words of course
Re-spin the storyline and rewrite your history

Create your own precious memory album
Start now, pick up a pencil
Draw the memories you hope to never forget
Sketch the elements of your magical moments…



Published in my mini book of sketches ~FLASH MEMORY THERAPY~ 2019

AP: 2nd place 2020

Copyright © Line Gauthier | Year Posted 2018

Please Login to post a comment

John Watt Date: 4/12/2020 10:14:00 PM Line, great advice! My notebook is with me everywhere I go. It is worn, torn, stained, and aged, much like its owner. Thanks for the poetic suggestions ~ John Login to Reply Line Gauthier Date: 4/13/2020 10:25:00 AM Thanks for your lovely visit and comment, John.

Tom Cunningham Date: 11/5/2018 10:26:00 AM Just back for another read, have got a small note book now that I carry around usually to just jot a few words down for a poem etc. But will use it also for wow moments because as time lapses you tend to forget minor details. Tom. Login to Reply Line Gauthier Date: 11/5/2018 11:12:00 AM Thanks for your most appreciated second visit and comment, Tom.

Caren Krutsinger Date: 9/18/2018 9:20:00 AM Line, how I missed this poem the first time I have NO idea? Maybe I was so new to this site that I was not commenting yet. I have FAVED it, of course. If people had any idea how therapeutic and cathartic this was, they would ALL do it, keeping a sketch book next to their bed, in their cars, in their purses, backpacks, and in their laps in waiting rooms. I do, and you do too. Login to Reply Line Gauthier Date: 9/18/2018 9:22:00 AM Thanks, Caren, for your most appreciated visit and comment.

Kai Michael Neumann Date: 3/26/2018 2:24:00 AM Finding the adult to protect the child. Transaction Analysis. In some way, I never want to grow up. Login to Reply Line Gauthier Date: 3/26/2018 8:39:00 AM Indeed, Kai, I'm with you the more we maintain child-like qualities the better our life will be.

Tom Cunningham Date: 3/25/2018 1:54:00 PM Great advice Line , let's face it as we get older things do slip from time to time. Nothing wrong with keeping a record of precious moments. Tom. Login to Reply Line Gauthier Date: 3/25/2018 7:38:00 PM Thanks, Tom. I picture myself keeping company to someone hospitalized and showing them this book full of colourful images - looks like a big comic book. And I have a true to life fond memory for every page.

Ralph Sergi Date: 3/25/2018 11:38:00 AM Hi Line: Fantastic poem to which I can relate. I am also creating an album where I sketch as well. I loved "protect my inner child." Thanks f the comment on my 36 years. there's more to come! Login to Reply Line Gauthier Date: 3/25/2018 7:42:00 PM Thank you so much, Ralph. Most appreciated visit and comment.