Wellbeing

I love poetry. I didn't always. At school I was taught a lot of old classic poetry where rhyme and rhythm were rule. Where understanding of a poem could be examined and marked correct or incorrect to exact numbers, and study guides existed to take one through the "meaning" of the poem. This I could never relate to.

Later some years down the road I rediscovered poetry through other people who wrote their own and shared poems they loved. I began to see in poetry a glimpse of freedom, a way of expressing that rather being bound by extra rules was fun freer from limitations and could take on whatever structure served it - wow!

Over the following pages are over 20 of the poems I have found very inspiring at different times over the past years.
Feel free to comment on any that move you, or mail me some of your favourites: email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it