Being a migraineur, having a child who suffers even more severely, I felt every word, every phrase, EVERY poem deeply, and have a few new remedies to consider. ~Mercedes Lewis, Poet, author of Glimpses of a Fractured Soul


¿¿¿This poem collection includes a range of emotions felt while experiencing migraine headaches. Pain? Yes, and sorrow, anger, hopelessness. But the poems were written to help the poet survive the pain-to have hope for a cure, an end to the suffering. Readers may relate to the pain, because haven't we all suffered? At its core, the collection shows us we are all in this together.

Table of Contents

Author's Foreword

Dedication

1. Migraine

2. Migraine Wake-Up Call

3. Surgery

4. Bad Company

5. Migraine senryu

6. Midnight Migraines

7. Migraine Againe

8. Migraine Haiku

9. Saturday Night Dance

10. Whatever it Takes

11. Monster

12. The Spiral Staircase

13. Hold Back the Dawn

14. Two-Day Headache Binge

15. Migraine Day Three

16. Another Headache Poem

17. The Lost Weekend

18. To M

19. Little Visits

20. Migraines Might Slow You Down

21. A True Story

22. The Worst

Afterword

About the Author

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