大象传媒


Explore the 大象传媒
You and Yours - Transcript
大象传媒 Radio 4
Print This Page
TX: 08.01.09 - John Killick's Dementia Poem - Looking Up

PRESENTER: WINIFRED ROBINSON
Downloaded from www.bbc.co.uk/radio4

THE ATTACHED TRANSCRIPT WAS TYPED FROM A RECORDING AND NOT COPIED FROM AN ORIGINAL SCRIPT. BECAUSE OF THE RISK OF MISHEARING AND THE DIFFICULTY IN SOME CASES OF IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUAL SPEAKERS, THE 大象传媒 CANNOT VOUCH FOR ITS COMPLETE ACCURACY.

ROBINSON
Now for another poem from John Killick. As a writer in residence at hospitals, hospices and nursing homes he's created poetry from the words of people with dementia. John Killick has just published his third collection of these poems, they're called Dementia Diary and we're featuring them all this week. Today it's a short piece called Looking Up.

KILLICK
Why cry when you can laugh?
It doesn't cost you anything
You can do it all your life
You can put it in a wee envelope in your baggage
Or put it up on the wall so that everyone can see it

People think that you need something beautiful to make a beautiful picture
But what you need is skill
And the eye to see that it is beautiful

There's beauty in everything if you look for it
The sky through the skylight
In colours or not
It depends on your mood

Oh, I went to look up in the sky
And I saw it shining there
And I said: "That is life."
Are you going to take me to see the sun?

ROBINSON
And there's more about John Killick and his work and a chance to hear all of this week's poems again on our website bbc.co.uk/radio4 and then click on the link to You and Yours.



Back to the You and Yours homepage

The 大象传媒 is not responsible for external websites

About the 大象传媒 | Help | Terms of Use | Privacy & Cookies Policy