Poetry is powerful because

opened book and black pen

To write a poem

is to voice

the stirrings of your soul,

daring

to picture someone else reading it

and relating

to the rhythm of life below

the surface, sensing

the vital as

real.

When we choose to create, we express something that is worth saying, worth sharing, worth putting ‘out there’ in a way that honours and speaks to the soulful side of who we are. This is not a part of us we need explain, or even put into words. It is simply the outflow of what’s going on inside, which is exactly where we are shaped through the process known as spiritual formation. And so, in one way, writing a poem or painting a picture, composing music, etc., is how we live into the truth of who we are, of how God made us to be. And so, we express.

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Published by Dayna E. Mazzuca

Contemplative Christian Poet, Author & Speaker

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