Walking Through Rain
A Life in Poetry
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Walking Through Rain is a set of twenty poems accompanied by personal reflections covering diverse subjects such as Childhood Bereavement, Abuse. Family Relationships, Climate Change and Love. Pryde, a survivor of childhood abuse, uses his poetry (together with each reflection) to take the reader on a voyage through childhood and adult experiences and shows how abuse can shape personal thinking, family relationships and individual decision making over a lifetime. Sample 1: The loss of loosing a brother at the age of six: But time was lean and days were short and things were left unsaid. You walked no more – You talked no more And soon just stayed in bed. Then bed became the lounge room complete with Arctic Tent Empty oxygen cylinders down the side of the house were spent. Then one cold grey July morn I came home to find. No tent, no bed, no YOU Only the memory that you had left behind. Sample 2: Cancer Poem The bell I ring this Christmas time you won't find on a tree It hangs upon a hospital wall for those with Cancer like me. It rings not just at Christmas time but all throughout the year To remind us of the ones we love; the ones which we hold dear.
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In “Walking Through Rain” the author John Martin Pryde shares his experiences of his life journey. The poetry together with each reflection, takes the reader on a voyage through childhood and adult experiences and explains the impact that childhood abuse has had in shaping and challenging his life experiences as both a child and as an adult. His story serves as a backdrop for the discussion of a serious issue which has impacted millions of people across all countries and cultures. Pryde takes the crime of abuse and offers a personal insight into coping and managing the issue as a victim. He offers strategies whch have worked for himself and shows how poetry can be a sanctuary and a form of comfort to heal and cope with pain. The book concludes by acknowledging the love and support he has received from family and the important role they have played in his healing.
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Childhood Abuse became a major social issue in Australia following the findings of the Royal Commission handed down in December 2019. John Martin Pryde, a survivor of this aberration devoted most of is working life as a teacher, and school counsellor working with troubled youth and disabled students. His perspective comes from the emergence of a repressed memory following a suicide attempt in December 2013.