”Healing is an art.
It takes time,
it takes practice.
It takes love.”
– Maza Dohta
April is considered as the National Poetry month and not everyone is familiar with it but a good time for poets to revive their feelings and pour them into a paper. Poetry is not just a genre of writing in which vivid, and intense emotions are reflected in the form of images or ideas. But, it's a snapshot written from the inner happenings.
In a verse William Wordsworth, a great poet of all time mentioned poem as “the spontaneous overflow of feelings; it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility and beyond”
How does Poetry heal you from within?
Many times dealing with hardships seems impossible. But we have to get up and fight with the challenges to find the real power within us and sustain the depression.
Whenever you’re misguided or passing through any form of challenge, always remember that nothing is permanent in life and that this period will pass away. Poetry shows the mirror of our happiness and contentment. You might feel like your healing process is taking forever but you’ll eventually feel better and recover soon.
To help yourself move on from life struggles, the poem provides a gigantic inspirational, comforting, and uplifting strength of mindset.
Regardless of the poem's agony, it uses a generic economy of words thereby, every word seems precious. The more it is theme-oriented and thought blended specifically the better it is. However, the best poetry inspires its readers to dream, reminisce, observe, and live in the real world.
Each fragment of poetry encourages a certain interconnectedness and helps establish a sense of community between oneself and others. A unique perspective of poetry is it can help us feel as if we’re part of a larger picture and not just living in our isolated little world.
We learn from a variety of people who have faced similar moments and embarked on least traveled paths and having topsy-turvy roads of life.
Therapists had revealed in research that writing and reading poetry can be a brainstorming springboards for interpersonal growth, healing, and transformation. When we read a good poem, we have the capacity to be transformed scientifically by the poet’s words and message. We tend to be most affected positively by those poems where the poet expresses emotions or feelings we might be experiencing ourselves.
Reading poems mystically offers insights into both the human psyche and human behavior.
As one can listen to the voice of the soul and relive the imagination. Writing poetry is also a way to nurture mindfulness and captivate the unconscious brain. Framing our feelings and thoughts into a rhythm of words indirectly loosens up and allows the freedom of self-expression which is needed the most.
It can also be a form of meditation because it encourages a sense of mindfulness and the ability to tap into what we’re feeling, seeing, and experiencing at the moment of writing.
Before writing a poem one should prompt and sow some seeds for writing effective poems, like:
- What excites you?
- What upsets your mind?
- What makes you feel special?
- What is most important to you in your life?
Such questions inspire for writing heart-teaching poetry and help one tap into their emotional wellbeing. So what are you waiting for? Share your amazing poems with Kavishala today...
Meanwhile here's a poem that swiftly expresses the wounds of heart and pains of mind beautifully presented in the form of beads of words :
After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes
After great pain, a formal feeling comes,
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Toombs,
The stiff Heart questions were it He, that bore,
And Yesterday, or Centuries before?
The Feet, mechanical, go round,
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought-
A Wooden way
Regardless grown,
Quartz contentment, like a stone!
This is the Hour of Lead-
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons recollect the Snow,
First--Chill--then Stupor--then the letting go.
- Emily Dickinson