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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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