3 way to write poetry that changes your life

Looking back over countless old notebooks never fails to amaze me how alchemical and life changing poetry can be...
especially when we get real honest with ourselves about the things inside.

Poetry has gifted me with voicing things that I didn’t feel safe conveying in more linear sentences like these ones.

Poetry opens streams for me to dig deeper into my own mind and all of it’s personalities.

Poetry shows me things I didn’t see before, and gives the stage for different parts of myself to come forward and share their side of the story.

Poetry brings me answers in times of confusion, it brings me solace in times of distress, and it brings me faith in times of apathy.

Even now, until I sat down and wrote this, I hadn’t brought my awareness to all the ways in which I’m so grateful to poetry.

Poems are a way of saying more, in less words. Of encapsulating an entire chapter, thread, or experience without being weighed down by the overthinking mind.

They can be kept on the back of receipts in the pocket of a pair of trousers you rarely wear, or they can spoken to the world on stages, or shared with a group that feels right for right now.

Everyone is a writer, everyone is a poet, and all of the words, at some point, want to be heard.

So here are just 3 ways that poetry can change your life…

1. Own your desires

make art from your longings,

voice what you are yearning for and

claim the innocent cravings inside your heart

fall in love with the having of desires, knowing that they will one day be fulfilled,

or write as if they have already landed in your lap

it's a co-creation of your very own Cinderella style fairytale, where we can decide if we live happily after all..

2. Unearth your hidden satisfaction

dig into your shadows and see how kinkily turned on you can get by the things that you think you don’t like about your self or your current experience

think you’re tired of being rejected, of being broke, or being tired?

see if you can make a poem of all the ways you secretly love it

bringing these pleasures for the things you think you're not enjoying to light is a potent way to let them be seen, from here you can consciously choose whether to change things

3. Indulge in gratitude

give your gratefulness more grace than just a list of things you’re happy about..

dance your words around all the ways you are so utterly in love with life and all that it is immersing you right now

open your heart to love, let your feelings ooze out onto the page and make beautiful art for the sake of art...

bathe in this heart expansive place because we can chase to change things all we want, meanwhile here and now is your access point to infinite love, where we can relish in the fullness of the moment.