Armless Hugs

Jim Meehan

Description

ARMLESS HUGS” is a collection of poems about human relationships and key ideas that humans have about the world and their place in it .

“Armless Hugs” is a collection of poems which tries to capture and communicate strong feelings and interesting thoughts about human relationships and key ideas that people have about the world and their place within it.

The lead poem “Armless Hugs” is particularly relevant today as many people are isolated from their loved ones during the coronavirus pandemic and have to hug them with their arms by their sides, even for some at the time of the death of their loved ones. The words sound like harmless hugs which suggests a link to the phrase “do no harm” which so many of our carers abide by as an ethical or moral principle when devoting themselves to healing others.

Part One focuses on human relationships while Part Two is more general in its scope.

Sujets

• Values
• Feelings
• Value (personal and cultural)
• Growth
• Meaning
• Poetry
• Pour toi
• Love
• Time

Informations

• Publié par: iUniverse
• Date de parution: 03 septembre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781663207449
• Langue: English

Extrait

Armless Hugs
 
 
 
 
 
JIM MEEHAN
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


ARMLESS HUGS
 
 
Copyright © 2020 Jim Meehan.
 
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ISBN: 978-1-6632-0743-2 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6632-0744-9 (e)
 
 
 
 
iUniverse rev. date:06/08/2023
Contents
Preface
 
Armless Hugs
Enough is Enough
Empathy
Total Mutual Trust
Belonging
Lost and Found
Empathy or Sympathy
Missing You
Love Donors
Growth
Significance
Love in Words and Numbers
Three’s A Crowd
Love in Action
The Lonely World of “I” – “Me”
The Breath of Life
Free Flow
Trust or Bust
Show Your Hand
Teenagers are Tops
Obsessed
Compassion
Another’s Shoes
About Relating
Partial Pictures
Roses in December
Valentine Time
Making Up
Love
Counting Some of the Ways
There’s More
Beyond Loving
A Relative Dimension
Spending Time
Reality
Smile Inside
Attitudes
Outcomes
Emotion’s Parent
Autumn’s Renewal
Opposites
A Time Machine
A Humanistic Creed
Priceless Values
Before After Before
Insight
Picture A World
Strength to Strength
A Most Remarkable Man
An Ideal Citizen
Questions of Life and Love
Pray Hear
United We Stand
Now or Never
More or Less
Whole-ness
What’s Our Life Coming To?
Human Becomings
 
Acknowledgements
About the Author

 
 
 
OTHER BOOKS BY JIM MEEHAN
Hearts Have Reasons (UK Outword Trust 1995; USA Thomas Moor 2000)
Reasons Have Hearts Too (UK Outword Trust 1997; USA Thomas Moore 2000)
Sugar Free Sweet Talk (USA Talent Plus 2009)
Hallways to Success and Significance (USA Talent Plus 2013)
I Mean You No Harm; I Seek Your Greatest Good – Reflections on Trust (USA I Universe 2015)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
To
All those people helping others infected with or vulnerable to the coronavirus
Many thanks and armless hugs.
Preface
Like millions of people all over the world, Maureen, my wife, Larissa, my daughter, Amir my grandson and yours truly have been in lockdown for a couple of months. Every Thursday evening at eight o’clock, here in the UK, we have an event called ‘clap for carers.’ We go into our front garden, clap our hands, blow whistles, and make a racket on home-made drums in recognition and appreciation of the sacrifices being made by employees of our National Health Service and others who are putting their lives at risk to save lives and protect those who are vulnerable to the coronavirus.