Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Have you been tinkering with the poem you started in the class? Or perhaps wrote another one? Great job!
Few facts about poetry:
The craft of writing poems is deliberate, attentive, and it requires absolute concentration. It is simultaneously intuitive and inventive. Poetry emerges like the bursting of a bud. It grows and ripens like fruit.
Poetry grows on us. It helps refine our thinking and enhances journaling. You may not want to become a poet but you learn to have a grasp on words and how they have power to stir deep feelings and emotions in you that you may not have experienced before.
Reading poetry, like writing in a journal is a private, intimate experience. It stirs self-examination. It helps us deal with paradoxical emotions we don’t understand. Poems have messages that speak directly to us.
Poetry has its own way of knowing, conveying, communing with the world around us and within us. It can be our companion in solitude. It helps us chip away what we don’t need in our life and reveals treasures that lie at the bottom of our ocean of consciousness.
The relationship between poet and reader is like that of a peach and someone eating thpeach. The taste is neither in the peach nor in the taster, but in the simple act of eating. Similarly, the joy of reading a poem is not in the poem or the reader but in the act of reading, understanding, and feeling its power. Inert words come to life in the reader’s imagination. Like the majesty of nature, reading poetry inspires awe and wonder, sometimes mingled with surprise, and at other times with sheer delight.Move slowly on poetry’s path and watch how it turns your heart tender.