{"id":6557,"date":"2019-05-19T11:17:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T11:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamoroki.com\/?p=6557"},"modified":"2024-09-29T12:54:14","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T05:54:14","slug":"poetry-therapeutic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamoroki.com\/authorindie\/poetry-therapeutic\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the purpose of Poetry and Poetry Therapy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When I received a compliment about something I\u2019d done well at last, from a friend and accomplished author, in response to a post of mine, it made me think about the English language, the purpose of poetry and poetry therapy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have an obligation not to deprive students and writers by declaring words obsolete, as some people do. Adding to the choices enriches the language, reducing them makes it poorer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us hope we\u2019ll only keep adding to dictionaries and not resort to stripping away old words to make room for new ones. Poetry helps us preserve our languages in ancient and modern form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And as I turned to my unpublished collection of poems, my view that no word is obsolete was re-enforced. But why do I write poetry and how does it help me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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