My Therapy Bear

I have resurrected and reworked a poem posted on this blog over ten years ago. Apologies for repetition but it feels like an appropriate time to repost this. 

My Therapy Bear

It’s ok to chat with my cats, so I’ve heard
and I know that my cats can hear every word
but I'd much rather talk with inanimate things
like my teddy, whose stuffing is held in with string.

I can tell that my cats don't care much about me
unless I'm preparing their breakfast or tea.

My teddy, however, absorbs all I say.
He collects up my words in his kapok each day.

My teddy bear holds all my wishes and thoughts.
He knows all my hopes, all those demons I’ve fought.
Don't tell me he's only a toy. Can't you see,

he’s the one true custodian of all that is me.

My poem in Allegro Poetry Magazine

A big thank you to Allegro Poetry Magazine for publishing my poem in their March 2026 issue. The magazine displays the poetry in a list and I'm sure you'll enjoy reading the various poems sitting above mine, but if you want to go straight to my work, you need to either do a search using my name Rosalind, or scroll down about three-quarters of the way through the list.

The poem is called A Chat with Marguerite Patten. It was originally called A Chat with Florence Greenberg, a Jewish cookery book writer from the 1950s/60s, but I wasn't sure people would know who she was, so I tweaked it just a bit before submitting it. 

The magazine can be viewed at the following link:  Allegro Poetry Magazine

The poem was inspired by an online poetry workshop that I attended several years ago. We were asked to find something that meant a lot to us and then write down a conversation that we might have with that object. What I love about those kinds of workshops is that my mind always seems to produce words that I didn't know were there.