We live in a post-modernist world and its values are everywhere around us; and everywhere these values are almost largely unexamined, and because we have little to contrast our present state with we fail to see how lamentable and poor we are. There is a deep materialism running through society which deprives people of theContinue reading “Poetry and the Muses Part 1”
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Two Plus One Reasons to Write Poetry – #2
The second primary reason to write poetry is to heal, oneself first of all, and others secondarily, if they able to read your words and take strength from, and identify with, your situation. Healing and poetry have been soul mates from the beginning: the god Apollo was the god of healing and the father ofContinue reading “Two Plus One Reasons to Write Poetry – #2”
The Mapping Motivation Series 