Pied Piper

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Pied Piper

I feel like a pied piper among fragile souls
needing cues from their pasts
to bring smiles to their faces, light to their eyes ..
music is the key

I help bring back memories of long ago,
real and imagined, when they were happy
and carefree, when joy and freedom reigned
when images of their futures could not be fathomed


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I wrote Pied Piper in 2005 shortly after
moving my mother into a memory care facility ...
I spent many hours with her ... and the residents.
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2.
Music as Therapy

Move to the music
Automatic, feels so good
Humans responding

Helen Woonie

Posted over on her site Poetry Matters
Listed as #24 over on Magpie Tales 48