Magic: Poems from healing

by Dara Searcy-Gardner

Disabled by chronic illness, Dara Searcy-Gardner wrote poetry that chronicles the arduous but fulfilling journey of figuring out how to live in a new normal, how to hold onto hope, and how to continue processing questions about life and God in the middle of a life she never envisioned for herself.

38 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 12, 2023

Reviews

[Mary Grace Kroef · Rating 5 out of 5]

Magic holds a modern style of verse that leans heavy in to fragmented sentences and precise lines. I enjoyed it very much. The line brakes add pause and slow the reader down to think at planned moments.

"Jesus to be near you
My soul skitters away
A rat obsessed with gathering" - from Scampering -

I highlighted many poems and lines but Scampering caught me in my tracks just a few poems from the end of the collection. The visual of comparing myself to a rat is both heart braking and poignant. We are nothing but scattering rats, yet, he came for us. The 'I Am' came for us. Amen.

[Denyse Springs · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sunday devotion

For someone who has to work every Sunday morning this was a really really going to still get my scripture and still get not my scripture. But I mean like still get a little bit of vertical out and just know that he's there and some advice about my life and the way that I live in it my life as a Christian young adult. What the fault feeling as if I do me something wrong because I am not going to church or can't participate into the church every Sunday morning with the rest of my family.

[Natasha M. Nurse, Esq. · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not my kind of poetry and definitely not giving healing vibes as expected.