Donna Ashworth is the author of the poems collection LIFE, LOVE, and LOSS. She lives in Scotland and has two children. Her poems are geared toward women; they inspire, motivate, and unite. Her message is simple but profound: Enjoy this life, this present, as if it were your last.
I had the divine opportunity to read LIFE and LOVE and thoroughly enjoyed poring over every line, highlighting whole poems at times because I found her voice so resonating.
From LIFE:
Your perfect is not needed
but your broken
is very important
very important indeed.”
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It is exactly what we need to hear in this time and age; a time when we all strive for perfection, ideal beauty, and success. It is those parts that make us human, our flaws and mistakes, that make us who we are, and in this poem, she is reiterating that we should not hide these parts, but rather accept them and acknowledge the power and humility we gain from those parts of us.
Or take these lines:
Sow seeds
wherever you go.
There is nothing better you can do with your words
than plant a precious seed.”
And:
I know it seems pointless
to perform the day-to-day
sometimes
when there is so much suffering
elsewhere.
But don’t forget that your pointless
your nitty-gritty
your mundane
is someone else’s paradise.”
Her work strives to see the beauty and peace in the ordinary, leaving us with feelings of joy and rejuvenation. In her LOVE collection, she addresses the love between husband and wife, mother and child, and friends. Here is a taste of some of those inspiring lines:
We don’t always say I love you
Sometimes we say
You’re not eating very well
Or Should you be going out in this weather?
We don’t always say
You’re amazing.
Sometimes we say
I wish you would believe in yourself more.
We don’t have to say “I love you” directly, we can say it in so many other words, through so many loving and supportive actions. Donna encourages us to be receptive to others’ ways of loving us: Her poetry is a testament to that.
