A Little Poetry Therapy

Yay, I’m done with that Creative Arts course! It would have been so fun without all the papers. But I did take away a few helpful things and one of them is that I really love poetry therapy. I know, shocker. Poetry therapy, according to the International Federation for Biblio/Poetry Therapy, is the use of “the written, spoken, and auditory aspects of interactive literature” in therapy. This includes activities like responding to poetry, writing original poetry, journaling, bibliotherapy, and creative expressive writing. And maybe, you know, blogging.

 

I’d like to share a little poetry therapy with you. Here are some poems for your enjoyment. Read them to yourself, or out loud, and write your reflections, or print them out and circle a word or phrase that resonates with you and write a poem about that…the possibilities are endless.

 

“The Journey” by Mary Oliver

“Heavy” by Mary Oliver

“The minute I heard my first love story” by Rumi

“circumstances” by Nayyirah Waheed

 

Can you please post a link to any poem you like?