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Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Poetry Therapy Ezine - Source of Poems in 'Poetry as Healer and Pandemic Collection'
Poetry Therapy Ezine
Source of Poems in the “Poetry as Healer and Pandemic Collection (In order of appearance):
I. Writing Into the Storm” – Expressing Our Stories and What We Feel:
“From the Threshold” by Jane Butkin Roth [In Roth (Ed.), We Used To Be Wives: Divorce Unveiled Through Poetry. Fithian Press, 2002]
“Fear” by J. Ruth Gendler [In Gendler’s The Book of Qualities. Turquoise Mountain Publications, 1984]
“Dolor” by Theodore Roethke [In H. Vendler (Ed.), The Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. Tauris, 2003]
“All Alone Inside My Very Own Skin” By Judith Viorst [In Viorst’s What Are You Glad About? What Are You Sad About? Atheneum/Simon & Schuster, 2016]
“Writing into the Storm” by Lucy Adkins [In Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West. Mariner Books/ Houghton Mifflin, 2004]
“Waiting” by Jacob Trapp [In Studia Mystica Vol XII, No. 2&3 (Summer-Fall, 1989)]
“Snowbound” by Natasha Lynne Vodges [In Social Work 25, 1, 1980]
“History Will Remember” by Donna Ashworth. [https://ladiespassiton.com/2020/03/18/history-will-remember-when-the-world-stopped/]
II. Strategies for Coping and Self-Soothing:
“A Blessing of Presence” by John O’Donohue [In O’Donohue’s To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings. Doubleday, 2008]
“Breath of Life” by Donna Faulds [http://www.mindfullivingprograms.com/resources_poetry.php]
“Lockdown” by Richard Hendrick [https://faithconnector.s3.amazonaws.com/unitedpresbyterian/files/lockdown_by_brother_richard_hendrick.pdf]
“Pandemic” by Ruth Ungar [https://images.shulcloud.com/686/uploads/PandemicPoem.PDF]
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45521/i-wandered-lonely-as-a-cloud]
“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry [In Berry’s Openings. Harcourt Brace, 1968]
“Leisure by W. H. Davies [In Davies’ Songs Of Joy and Others. A. C. Fifield, 1911]
“Speech to the Young” by Gwendolyn Brooks [In Brooks’ Blacks. Third World Press, 1991]
“Optimism” by Jane Hirshfield [In Hirshfield’s Each Happiness Ringed by Lions: Selected Poems. Bloodaxe Books, 2005]
“Let This Poem Be” by Deborah Cooper [https://itstartswithhope.tumblr.com/]
“Beannacht” by John O’Donohue [In O’Donohue’s To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings. Doubleday, 2008]
III. Cultivating Gratefulness—Celebrating the Ordinary:
“The Patience of Ordinary Things” by Pat Schneider [In Schneider’s Another River: New and Selected Poems. Amherst Writers and Artists Press, 2005]
“Praying” by Mary Oliver [In Thirst: Poems by Mary Oliver. Beacon Press, 2007]
“A Hundred Objects Close By” by Mira Mirabai [http://mollystrongheart.blogspot.com/2013/08/mira-hundred-objects-close-by.html ]
“Otherwise” by Jane Kenyon [In Kenyon’s Let Evening Come: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2005]
“Lost and Found” by Imelda Maguire [In Maguire’s Shout If You Want Me to Sing. Summer Palace Press, 2004]
IV. Finding Hope and Developing Courage-Awareness:
“May 1915” by Charlotte Mews [https://allpoetry.com/May-1915]
“Courage” by Anne Sexton [In Sexton’s The Awful Rowing Towards God. Houghton Mifflin, 1975]
“Variation on a Theme by Rilke The Book of Hours, Book I, Poem, Stanza 1” by Denise Levertov [In Levertov’s Breathing the Water. New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1987]
“The Unbroken” by Rashini Rea [Silver Linings: The Power of Trauma to Transform Your Life by Melissa West. Fair Winds Press, 2003]
“Kindness” by Naomi Shihab Nye [In Nye’s Words Under the Words: Selected Poems, 1995]
“Somewhere in the World” by Linda Pastan [In Pastan’s Traveling Light. W.W. Norton & Company, 2011]
“Sometimes” by Sheenagh Pugh [In Pugh’s Selected Poems, 1990]
“The Thing Is” by Ellen Bass [In K. vanMeenen & C. Rossiter (Eds.), Giving Sorrow Words: Poems of Strength and Solace. National Association for Poetry Therapy, 2002]
“Oh Hope” (excerpt) by Charlotte Smith [Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems, 1795]
“A Small Grain of Hope” by Denise Levertov [Making Peace. New Direction Publishing, 2006]
“Hopi Prayer” [In C. Rossiter & K. vanMeenen (Eds.), Giving Sorrow Words: Poems of Strength and Solace. National Association for Poetry Therapy, 2002]