The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul

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I found myself pumping his heart, giving him the kiss of life – amazingly, his heart started beating again. Poems help you feel you are not mad, that what you are going through has been experienced by others. Start your adventure at dusk and craft your own Boggle Bindle Lantern to help the Boggles light up the woods at Hazel`s Hideaway, before embarking on a journey through BeWILDerwood like you have never seen before. Poetry is a perfect way to look slantwise at truth (to paraphrase Emily Dickinson) and change your perceptions about life.

If we feared boredom, or being boring, more than we feared the consequences of bold action, I can barely conceive of the marvellous things we’d create and the spectacular lives we could lead. Perfect for the treasured friends, barely tolerated siblings, beloved aunts and revered grandparents in your life.When I give it to people now, I tell them to do what I did: stick it on the fridge, and make it your own.

There is such huge potential within us, and within the world itself, and yet for some reason we choose to live lives of constraint and repetition.He was being interviewed about his anthology Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday Life(2012) at Port Eliot Festival in Cornwall where a friend suggested he was put in the corner of a tent with two armchairs and a prescription pad. The idea behind this collection is that a poem is offered as a prescription for some particular facet of the human experience.