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In a harsh and overly mechanical world, it’s easy to overlook the fact that poetry is, well, good for you. It’s generally healthy and life-affirming.
It draws people together, rather than splitting them up into politically partisan groups. It’s genuinely inclusive, diverse and truth-seeking.
Certainly, with its emphasis on quiet reflection and playful rumination, reading or writing poetry is often better than, say, seeing a shrink … or going to jail or the hospital.
Now, I have to admit my bias here. But I think those who dismiss poetry as a romantic relic of a bygone age ignore its continuing therapeutic power.
Poet-physician John Keats noted that “a poet is a sage, a humanist, a physician to all men.”
American author Diana Raab says “reading and writing poetry is good for healing and transformation—and it’s also good for the soul.”
Poetry also has the virtue of not being wedded to – or hampered by –the daily news grind.
As physician-poet William Carlos Williams “It is difficult/ to get the news from poems/ yet men die miserably every day/ for lack/ of what is found there.”
In these eco-obsessed days, poetry is also a great vehicle for honoring the beauty of nature in all its amazing manifestations, from whales to wolves to waterfalls.
It draws people together, rather than splitting them up into politically partisan groups. It’s genuinely inclusive, diverse and truth-seeking.
Certainly, with its emphasis on quiet reflection and playful rumination, reading or writing poetry is often better than, say, seeing a shrink … or going to jail or the hospital.
Now, I have to admit my bias here. But I think those who dismiss poetry as a romantic relic of a bygone age ignore its continuing therapeutic power.
Poet-physician John Keats noted that “a poet is a sage, a humanist, a physician to all men.”
American author Diana Raab says “reading and writing poetry is good for healing and transformation—and it’s also good for the soul.”
Poetry also has the virtue of not being wedded to – or hampered by –the daily news grind.
As physician-poet William Carlos Williams “It is difficult/ to get the news from poems/ yet men die miserably every day/ for lack/ of what is found there.”
In these eco-obsessed days, poetry is also a great vehicle for honoring the beauty of nature in all its amazing manifestations, from whales to wolves to waterfalls.
113 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 5, 2021
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