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Former President & CEO of multiple hospital systems and founding president & CEO of 20-hospital OhioHealth, best selling author, film artist, ordained minister, composer, published poet, syndicated T.V. host, trial attorney, federal prosecutor and Municipal Court Judge. Erie is internationally known as the founder of the Radical Loving Care(R)movement. He also heads Erie Chapman Foundation, Dane Dakota Productions, LLC, and Chapman Health International, Inc.

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Former President & CEO of multiple hospital systems and founding president & CEO of 20-hospital OhioHealth, best selling author, film artist, ordained minister, composer, published poet, syndicated T.V. host, trial attorney, federal prosecutor and Municipal Court Judge. Erie is internationally known as the founder of the Radical Loving Care(R)movement. He also heads Erie Chapman Foundation, Dane Dakota Productions, LLC, and Chapman Health International, Inc.

Day 198-199 End of the Week Art Appreciation

This version of end-of-the-week art offers picture, poetry & voice – Art meant to enlighten your life as a caregiver.

Caroline - stairsCrossing Summer’s Creek

(To listen as well as read, click link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6k8rwcVqns

Comes now a sudden turn

Into soft surprise.

Some whisper in the forest

That draws my eye’s energy.

“Over there,” the oak leaves sigh,

“Crossover summer’s creek.”

As the grit & glass clear from eyes

Where they needed to be,

Where blood must be shed

By men like me who need

To fight before we can rest,

I crossover, kneel on sharp rock,

Tear my torn body through thorn

Bushes, stare down a copperhead.

“Raise your eyes,” the snake spits.

Before me a secret path gestures.

A curved shape sits in a meadow.

Peace. Arms open.

Her gentle smile. Her strength.

 

-Erie Chapman, 2020

Photo by Erie: "Climbing Into Summer" 2018

 

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5 responses to “Day 198-199 End of the Week Art Appreciation”

  1. Terry Chapman Avatar
    Terry Chapman

    Really like the graphics and word choices in this one, Chip! “Crossover Summer’s Creek” gives me the chills.

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    Terry Chapman

    Really like the graphic quality of your word choices. “Crossing summer’s creek gives me just a touch of a chill down my spine!

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  3. ~liz Wessel Avatar
    ~liz Wessel

    I so love this image of a child exploring some new delight with a sense of wonder and leaving a trail of stars in her wake…then listening and hearing the intonations and expressiveness of your voice made those words jump off the page and come alive for me as I was drawn into this magical world… your poem expresses so much about your heroes journey, Erie, about life about the pain and exquisite beauty that is uniquely part of each person’s journey. Marvelous mix of artistic medium that harmonizes as a most beautiful aria.

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  4. erie chapman Avatar
    erie chapman

    You are just so wonderful to write this kind thoughts, Liz. From the depths of my heart I thank you for the way you appreciate and affirm the heroes journey, art, my voice & poetry and the picture of my youngest granddaughter. Blessings and love to you.

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    erie chapman

    Thank you so much for being open enough to feel “a chill down” your spine, dear Terry. So amazing that we two cousins both love poetry and both write it. All too rare a thing in the American population.

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