A random exploration searching for the poetry, prose & art of Health & Social Care - issues, commentary & above all experiences from the front line
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Keith Beniston retweeted
birdsongs๐
ช
at morning lightfallโ๏ธ
alone
in the thatched hut
of an everyday mind๐
tinyurl.com/49vbj6yr #meditation #birdsong #alone #everyday #mind #tanka #poetry #micropoetry #poem
Keith Beniston retweeted
The "new" Mental Health Act 2025 will soon be on the statute books. Are there any AMHP's out there who are confident that it will radically change the delivery of mental health services and in particular will it result in more support for the AMHP role?
Keith Beniston retweeted
Deeply honoured to announce a series of my artworks have been acquired by @ExploreWellcome. Iโm also contributing an archive of my art practice & advocacy for #skinpicking #anxiety #mentalhealth. I feel humbled contribute to such a significant collection #artandhealth #research
Keith Beniston retweeted
My piece reflecting on life, love, loss and learning disabilities following the death of my daughter dailymail.co.uk/femail/articโฆ
Keith Beniston retweeted
hospital visit
hearing the inflection
in the doctorโs eyes
#senryu
Keith Beniston retweeted
Mental Health Act - is it's purpose to ensure 'Care and/or Control' - or should it ensure that unwell people are Safeguarded, Cared for and given effective & timely Treatment in a therapeutically sympathetic environment?
NEW BLOG - "Michael Crane"
A new PFD means we need to remember s136 MHA is not just about ensuring "control" but also ensuring "care" - not that the PFD expresses itself in such terms but it's worth thinking about as a lesson.
mentalhealthcop.wordpress.coโฆ
Keith Beniston retweeted
A #NewYear of the Same Fate
alone, lost
in the calm between fireballs
this Gazan boy's gaze
a two-thousand-yard stare
at the Great Beyond...
with lifeless eyes
cast to #Gaza's ashy skies
this girl's face
summons a grief
as old as Time
tinyurl.com/4mjffx3u #GazaGenocide #poem
Keith Beniston retweeted
every day cries
each season every day
someone is crying
what a way to live
between the cries there is joy
what a way to live
good luck with thereโs hope
itโs taking the long route here
someoneโs crying out
Keith Beniston retweeted
the wind
the wind
is distressed tonight
passing back and forth
banging doors
fences
sounding itโs anguish
liquorice sticks of twisted trees
in strange dark shapes
night
Night
what did you fall upon
to bring such anxiety
#poem
Keith Beniston retweeted
#Tanka
hospice bed
my mother clenches
my hand
as our pulses fuse โ
her barely beating heart
John Wisdom โฆ the final chapter
Keith Beniston retweeted
a square of sunlight
on the worn-out seats
of the waiting room
Adri van den Berg tinyurl.com/4ufs3657 #waitingroom #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poem
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Keith Beniston retweeted
After a unique art gift for someone this Christmas? Itโs almost time for @Bethlem_Gallery Art Fair
27 Nov โ 11 Jan 2025
Paintings, prints, drawings, ceramics, photographs & sculpture for sale at affordable prices, incl
3 of my #Whitstableincharcoal drawings! #mentalhealth
Keith Beniston retweeted
sent away
to await my fate
i try to think
of painting anything but
her footsteps on the stairs
#TankaThursday
#tanka #poem
Keith Beniston retweeted
Maimonides could have been a pickle merchant
on Hester Street, a numbered tattoo
on his forearm that he was given as a boy
which he plunges naked
into the brine and pulls out his wares.
At night a needle
finds its groove
in the pressed black wax,
Amid ghosts,
Beethoven. #poem
Keith Beniston retweeted
I hear in the morning
as the geese gather
footsteps of the sun
that barely
touch the icy lake
Long ago in bed
I hear the footsteps of
the housemaid
another girl
that I adore
I make my footsteps
up the stairs
in my old age
steady as I can
to fool the mounting years
#sedserio
Keith Beniston retweeted
Grief drawings #grief #griefjourney #drawingforgrief #studio #wip #gobigorgohome #bigdrawing #whitstableincharcoal
Keith Beniston retweeted
Loved working on this specially commissioned drawing of West Pier.
Got a special occasion to mark? A favourite place? Commissions now open! Get in touch if youโd like me to custom create a drawing for you ๐ค๐ฉถ๐ค
#westpier #westpierbrighton #privatecollection #commission
Keith Beniston retweeted
There are about 15 British citizens with learning disabilities for every UK farmer.
And about 7 British citizens with autism for every UK farmer.
Just imagine how their landscape for living might improve with similar political support and media interest
Keith Beniston retweeted
snow geese
cross the gray sky--
her wrist scars
tinyurl.com/49n5735h #selfharm #scars #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poem
Keith Beniston retweeted
Grief drawings #grief #griefjourney #drawingforgrief #studio #wip #gobigorgohome #bigdrawing #whitstableincharcoal
