Why Poetry?

Why Poetry IS

for the concerned parent, anxious student, cancer survivor, nature lover ,caregiver, betrayed one, trusted one, wounded or healed one, and the one reading this who needs to be befriended by words.

Poetry is for-

the one who feels the weight of the world and is looking for answers to questions that do not have answers.  Whose heart is aching and longs to enter the cathedral of God and take a seat in the solitude of their own inter-being where solace, inspiration, insight, understanding are the keys to unlocking a kinder, softer self.  

Inspired by poet Chris Abani in an interview with Ellen Bass