{"id":199312,"date":"2021-11-15T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=199312"},"modified":"2021-11-12T08:19:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T08:19:15","slug":"healing-power-of-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/11\/healing-power-of-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Healing Power of Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Write your thoughts.<br \/>\nWhen you feel you tied up in manic knots.<br \/>\nExpose your delicate and dark spots.<br \/>\nYou need to connect the clinical dots.<br \/>\nEven if you feel a phobia or a \u00a0great loss.<br \/>\nWrite, create, use words.<br \/>\nThey have healing power similar to herbs.<\/p>\n<p>Pen\u00a0 your feelings\u2026<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a form of healing.<br \/>\nEven if you\u00a0 feel emptiness, anxiety and no meaning.<br \/>\nWords are powerful!<br \/>\nPoetry is wonderful.<br \/>\nHealing and helping<br \/>\nEven if your emotions are \u00a0insomnia and melting.<br \/>\nThe hurting, the helpless.<br \/>\nHearing sounds, or creeping monsters,<br \/>\nPhobias, OCD or paranoia.<br \/>\nFeeling fearful?<br \/>\nWords are powerful!<\/p>\n<p>Poetry is therapy.<br \/>\nWriting is a remedy.<br \/>\nPen words like a melody.<br \/>\nEmotions can get clarity.<br \/>\nPoetry will give serenity.<br \/>\nYou may even find your destiny!<br \/>\nTrauma should not break your integrity.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t let depression become your identity.<br \/>\nPoetry can benefit mentally.<br \/>\nUse words metaphorically.<br \/>\nUntap your spirituality.<br \/>\nLet go of deep hurt and agony.<\/p>\n<p>Life does NOT have to be a tragedy.<br \/>\nPoetry is not a formality.<br \/>\nCreate your own reality.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s not insanity.<br \/>\nUse poetry as a fantasy.<br \/>\nIts better than the drug ecstasy!<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Usha-Roopnarain-e1623990401501.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-186568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Usha-Roopnarain-e1623990401501.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Dr Usha Roopnarain \u2013 Former parliamentarian in the National Assembly of South Africa, social activist and passionate about human rights and gender equality.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Write your thoughts.<br \/>\nWhen you feel you tied up in manic knots.<br \/>\nExpose your delicate and dark spots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":186568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-199312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}