Chiasm Poetry — Read Forwards and Backwards from Year of The Poet (Vol 22)

Featured in The Year of the Poet October, 2015 Volume 22.

One poem meant to be read, each line from top to bottom then bottom to top again:

Forwards and Backwards Chiasm Poetry by Sophie Potyka on Unsplash

Life’s Forward and Backward Chiasm

Which Way Do You Flow

your life’s upward direction your dreams your nervous system the master of you curable now no

incurable people with nerve diseases finding they are

invisible in the world are resigned to be Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s disease

no longer can it be said, there is hope for people with M.S. and ALS to find movement with grace, strength, and flexibility or to find comfort and rest for people with restless leg syndrome it is impossible it’s not true that

along with hope these things can save the quality of your life

good nutrition, physical exercise, and massage, acupuncture, matrix energetics

coaches and practitioners understand value

the medical paradigm’s power is more important than what complementary medicine has to offer individuals

this is it hope for miracles is crazy and it’s just not true that your nervous system can change, can heal, can recover spiraling downward

I don’t care you should never think you have got to be conscious how you live and what’s important is to stay out of the way and not be a burden

And I don’t really care all that much what is possible it’s incredible

to energy medicine practitioners, shamans, and healers for people to actually listen wrong don’t think that it’s possible it is…. fluid in time

[Now, Read each line from bottom to top]

fluid in time / it is / possible … / don’t think that it’s / wrong / for people to actually listen …

The Year of the Poet (Volume 22) October 2015, Inner Child Press, Poetry Pose, Kimberly burnham

Originally published in The Year of The Poet (Volume 22) at http://www.innerchildpress.com/the-year-of-the-poet.php on October 1, 2015.