THERAPY OF POETRY: 2

More common, you find people withstand the agony of bruises, deep cuts, acute fractures and major physical injuries than bear a sorrow lodged in the corners of the mind. The suffering from a sad memory can last longer than the scars of an amputated leg. The body can only be bait to the being but not the source of the pain.

All scientific medications and religious recommendation strongly rely consciously and unconsciously on the initiation of the natural therapy of poetry. The whole drugs, incantations and  scripture depend on the  activation of the “I” with all its units at function less you are administering your experiment on a lifeless specimen or a weight of carnivores without  a soul.

The word of poetry  is the will of the heart been wheeled as a  cargo of ship at a distance, it is the prayers traveling in the throat of the wind, it is the bounty wishes being herald by the pilgrim eagle, all sailing, moving to the shores of the tongue . With an amen, the army is turned around.

Poetry is a gun that can shot the morning into the night and the moon into the sun. You can joggle history like pancakes and yet you never mumble of hunger.  Poetry has loaded pens with bullets that can shatter machetes. It becomes the last resort of weapon and a best consult of armour. Children have appealed to swords and they return to their lost scabbards without a blood stain. Tyrants have set their selves ablaze at the thundering of words. Climes have erased and tribes have been born to merge together in peace, all to the course of a poem.

The entire future begins in the calmest consciousness of your heart to the most agile activity of your pen soiling the palette of your tongue in the words you compose and pronounce today for your healing.

©Uche Uwadinachi 

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THERAPY OF POETRY: 1

In the open cabinet of a dusty library shelves are laid the custodian of history-books: they are the facts of truths and figures of revelations. Since the inception of the book form, they have stood side by side with time as witnesses to every presented legend as told by the narrator. A much more living and selfless record is it been a vault of reliefs shouldering casts of told and untold tragedies. Like crucibles, they absorb burden and melt it to the form of the desired.

The act of writing has bored books that have produced a new world of unlimited solutions. That act has become an art of healing. The entire framework of the human mental impulse pivots on certain external activities exercised by the character. They connect in such a way that  even the crucial of surgical administration would highly rely on the performance of this bond in the being involved to be effective.

Art caters for our general human creativity especially in tendering to see life in matter. In creative writing, the function of expressive art is well active in reaching the centre consciousness of man. It is a therapy. In the crystal-clear mirror of art to life, poetry lives closer to man and is found residing in that core of the human consciousness. In the writing therapy, poetry is a natural self healing activity. It process of the written word spoken has testified itself as an effective tool in the treatment of human maladies and infirmities.

The motion of the ink, ascending into the condensed imagination, examining the body, bones, the bloodstream, the heart; signaling the weak cords to wake the tissues within…. therein the flow runs again and the beats are resumed.

Poetry writing more than any other genre resists the mind of everyone but the individual, the creative self. The “I”.  This is the foundation where the real poem comes from and the journey to that source of creativity is so natural, easy and instant.

Poetry for healing is self encounter and resolution. You reach for yourself to find yourself. The strength in your worst weaknesses. Poetry as old as it is is the new religion that has been able to heal itself to heal the world.

©Uche Uwadinachi 

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PRIESTS OF POETRY

Poetry as therapy is reluctantly a new development in the expressive arts, however it is as old as the first chant sung around the tribal fires of the primitive people. Then it was used by some selected elders to bring healing to the sick ones. The word ‘Therapy’ came from the Greek ‘therapia’, meaning to cure through involvement in one of the expressive arts: dance, song, poetry or drama.

Poetry as a therapy uses the traditional techniques of poetry-rhythm, sound, metaphor etc but the focus is the person writing or performing the poem. When it is used for healing, expression and growth tool in the hands of the individual.

Of course every genre, civilization, forms have employed the use of the imagery, metaphor, rhythm and other literary devices to teach their stories, fable, drama, passing their information. Poetry in it condensed form, lyrical quality, and flitting thematic preoccupation is a typical evocative form of literature that can command surprising positive responses from people involved irrespective of ages, state and culture.

Poetry is very efficient in self purgation in this modern time when been conducted as a therapy in an interactive process. It releases catharsis, enhances self awakening, gives new thoughts and hope to one.

Poetry therapy goes different ways with the so called highly intellectual and selective course of the English literature class. The essence of it process begins in reaching a poem to the facilitated discussion of the readers-response to a poem. The poem in question may be the reader’s piece e or someone else’s own. This is not using a ruler and an advance dictionary to analyze the metre and ideology of the elite poet who authors the book. It is seeking to discover the reader’s own intuitive understanding, connection with the story and application of the meaning.

In present day poetry for healing, we become doctors to our sickness and troubles, the poems of our own stories, and priests of our well-beings.

 ©Uche Uwadinachi 

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I AM A POEM

A poem educates and exposes us to ourselves and the world around us. In our personal encounter with challenges, is the experience of the larger society. When we cry the world cries; like crickets would join themselves in the sonorous songs of the moonlight. An essential part of reading and writing poetry is not only does it attempt to construe or define the “I” but fortifies it as an integral part of the world. We fetch these thoughts from the same source irrespective of location, space, race, age or intellectual denomination.

The process of engaging a poem attaches us to the greater and precious aspect of ourselves, to all that is whole, good and beautiful. Thus we realized ourselves as unique and vital; part of all that exist. We see that we are not alone and can’t be divided but only to remain strengthened in our stretching mind, esteem and thoughts.

The will is a stronger energy that multiply itself against it host. And that’s why when a poem is able to knock a cliff, it brings down the whole building like a falling pack of cards.  Without hesitating, write the lines and say the words, there your poem is born.

The “I” is the bowl of our creativity and freedom. It is the pronoun that stands for your capacity-the personality of your individuality. The “I’ is your poem. It is your story: the terrifying secret that’s been unleashed out of you to give way for hope to come. It is the reason why you want to live and stay alive amidst the incessant surgery you’ve had. It is the only companion you have when closest kin molest your tender under-age feminity.

When civilized diseases cripple your limbs and you cannot even find tears to help you cry, your poem can save you. Turn a fresh leaf, and paint your story, your will definitely find you to the greater world that writes with you in poetry.

 ©Uche Uwadinachi 

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