This week's article features a poem written as a means of healing. Poetry can allow you to express your innermost feelings.
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Poetry as therapy
Poetry has been used as a form of therapy in hospitals and clinics, as poetry can bring about healing. One father used poetry to write out his feelings as a tribute to his little girl born with multiple disabilities. "Once Upon A Time"

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Writing is a formof therapy; sometimes I wonder how all these people who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation.

-Greene, (Henry) Graham
Ways of Escape, ch.9.

Angela Saunders, Poetry Editor
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