February 2024 Still Point

Submitted by: Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine 

Author: Morgan Paskowski, OMS II

Title: A Haiku to Honor OMT

Description:
I was inspired to construct this poem to precisely articulate what I have learned in my time as an osteopathic student and was inspired by the Valentine’s season of emotion and expression in February to choose the format of a poem to do so. The creativity that goes along with following the constraints of a haiku forced me to be selective in what I wanted to express, and I’m proud to share these few but hopefully powerful words with others.

Care and precision
Giving time to one’s patients
Lending healing hands