Grateful for … Poetry

Thanks for this post.

When reading your first paragraph I was thinking, “Oh this girl LOVES poetry” you can just tell. And then you said how you realised its power.

But then I watch the YouTube clip, and thought, “no wonder”.

Thanks so much for linking up today, and sharing Sonnet 29 too. xx

Glad you liked my poem and thanks for sharing the link to it here. I too am grateful for poetry every day, reading it and writing it have saved me many times from going over the edge. x. Melinda

Thanks for visiting! 

I think I was being alittle self indulgent with my poetry grateful week. It is fun to just get immersed in the poetry and the spoken word … to escape in the caresses of the words. 

Your poem is amazing. If you ever want to share you work here please let me know.

I think that poetry is so important to get us to step back from our everyday lives and reflect on the world that we live in. I think it is just too easy to get trapped in the everyday mundane … what we have to do … and that poetry can lift us to get some perspective. Well that is true for me … my only danger is getting lost it in. Escaping sometimes is good … but in the end we all have to return. …

Thanks so much for visiting!!