Poetry Therapy
Poetry Will Save Your Life by Jill Bialosky created immediate curiosity for me. In her beautiful and powerful memoir, Bialosky chronicles how poetry gave her strength, hope and comfort through the challenges and heartbreaks of her life’s journey. Poems “…might be about what hurts,” but they “…remain a sustaining source of comfort.”
Using the power of the poetic form to help me through some of life’s most agonizing and arduous moments, as well as memorializing celebration and triumph, initiated in me a strong resonance with Bialosky.
Looking more deeply into this healing process, I discovered that there are Poetry Therapists and a group of organizations devoted to Poetry Therapy. I am including the following links should you wish to pursue this thread.
- www.poetrytherapy.org;
- www.goodtherapy.org;
- www.sanctuarycenters.org/ (Poetry Therapist Perie J. Longo).
“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it: blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches: for the Creator, there is no poverty.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke
“Every age has its own poetry, in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.” ~Jean-Paul Sartre
I am a devout convert to the comfort, joy and healing power of the poetic process. I invite you this week to connect with your poetic muse.
