Nov
23
The healing power of poetry
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John Lundberg over at Huffington Post has a great column today on the healing power of poetry. Lundberg cites work by poetry therapist Perie Longo. Yes, there is such a thing. Longo explores a patient’s poetry “as a window into the psychology of the poet”, says Lundberg.
We argue at poegles.com that though poegles are created with words from others, the act of their composition gives us an insight into the poegler. As you make decisions about what phrases to search, what text to choose, what text to leave out, what text to rearrange, you are inserting your own psychology and artistic imprint onto the resulting language. While none of the words in a poegle are your own, the poegle itself is purely yours, and contains something that is uniquely true about you.
See earlier post for the potential medical benefits of poegling.