This poem is about Frida Kahlo and how her art has comforted me for years… "The Broken Column" by Frida Kahlo I simply adore her for many reasons. I feel a sense of connection with Frida because, like her, I went through many surgeries as a child and had to spend time at hospitals. The experience has left me with some scars and trauma to deal with. I still remember the first time when I saw Frida's The Broken Column -painting and just felt like crying... ...because in that portrait she had painted EXACTLY how I felt as a child and still often feel. She's the only painter I know who's captured that sense of being broken in your body perfectly and that deep sorrow that comes from living in such a broken-cut-open-repaired body and that feeling of being deserted in your own experiences of pain, sorrow and suffering. Her paintings are like visual poetry to me, and her life story and art are...
Women's Spiritual Poetry