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]

Poetry Therapy Ezine vol 6 Iss 2 Autumn 2021

How We Rise - 10th IPTN Annual Conference

 IPTN are delighted to announce their 10th Annual Conference, How We Rise.

held on Zoom on Saturday 9 October 2021.

To register and pay, email irishpoetrytherapynetwork@gmail.com

Apologies for blurry programme. Check image for a better view!

Living with Mistakes - Two Group Poems

 Thank you to all those who attended our Living with Mistakes session on 14th and 15th August 21.

Here are the two group poems written by the participants on each day. 

Enjoy!

Group Poem 14/8/21

Currents and tides hide behind your eyes

when the river is still, I can see

reliving the unrepeatable current

feeling the depths of the river and absorbing it

moving gently and purposely over the earth

sensing the flow of nature

unrestrained boots towards the horizon.

Oh, Mother, carry me down to the river

down to the sea

Oh, Mother, carry me down to the river

no sounds just silence

flowing.

Group Poem 15/8/21

Ask Me

I do so miss the distractions

me myself and I,

what is stopping me from asking?

Rejoice for we can turn and look at the silent river and wait

and carry it for a little while

beneath the icy water unseen, flows cold and clear

no sounds just silence

my silent voice speaks

failing me forward.

Living with Mistakes - Another Session Offered

 

Due to the high demand for places on our Living with Mistakes session on Saturday 14th August, we are running a second workshop on Sunday 15th August '21.

Places are filling up fast so email us at irishpoetrytherapynetwork@gmail.com to reserve your place.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Living with Mistakes

 
‘Living with Mistakes’ is the final session in IPTN’s 2021 series of inspirational workshops that draw on poetry and reflective writing for self-discovery and self-expression.

We all make mistakes. Some of them we can fix, others ‘march ahead of us into our rooms, dripping’ Naomi Shihab Nye.

Yet all of the mistakes you made have led you to be the person you are today.

Join Carol Boland PTP on Saturday 14th August ’21

2pm - 4pm on Zoom

Fee: €15 or €10 IPTN members

Please note: 10 places only per workshop. Priority to IPTN members.

To register, email irishpoetrytherapynetwork@gmail.com

Windows to More Than Ourselves Group Poems - 12 and 13 June '21

 

Framing the Present

 

Plundering riches and pillaging poems

blind me like a dazzling and radiant emblazoned sunrise

allowing the potential to unfold to become more full, more than.

We are all held, the living and the dead

what has survived? 

Intricate filigree of dill

stirring them to dance, rise and fall, slip and fall away

a blush of blue on the horizon

I can see the one sky with colours that dip over the horizon

and new lands can be found, different worlds, and other people

with other ways of living.

Do we love without a return ticket?

This Accepting Window

 

I walk this path everyday

fitting perfectly in

sometimes I trip and fall

walking alone in the woods

it is a humble kind of love

in these long days and short days

it is a kind of love.