One of my tutors used to emphasise the importance of your raw words, written now, in this moment. The words that might arrive unbidden when you sit down at your computer to write, or scribble …
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What are you raw words telling you today?
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Writing for Wellbeing: Haiku Day 7
grass feel my wet feet sunlight touch my warm heartbeat earth taste my tongue This is the last poem in the seven day challenge I set myself on National Poetry Day to write a haiku …
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Writing for Wellbeing: Haiku Day 6
leaf bursting outwards into light, into colour done with Winter fasts
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Writing for Wellbeing: Haiku Day 5
fragments of our life strong, tall William who tells me skipping is joyful
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How do you take care of yourself?
We all need to look after ourselves, even if it is only in order to help us support other people in our lives. When life gets chaotic or we feel as if we are overwhelmed …
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Writing for Wellbeing: Haiku Day 4
slanting through dark trees tender light, fragile seedling to a bright clearing
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Writing for Wellbeing: Haiku Day 3
birdcall sweet and sharp untroubled invisible across the garden
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National Poetry Day: A poem a day keeps the doctor away
Writing and reading poetry can both help us improve our mental and physical health. In William Sieghart’s The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-And-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul (2017, Penguin Books) poetry is prescribed to be …
