of free verse. It may rhyme. What you can be sure that it is doing is unburdening your soul of all these pent up thoughts, allowing space for more positive ones. If you imagine a cup running over with liquid, there is no room for adding ingredients which make that drink taste nicer. Similarly a mind which is too full up with misery or despair leaves no room for creativity.

When you make these sketches, what you do is allow thoughts out of your mind, and these can be replaced by positivity and creation.

Healing process.

Therapy of any kind takes time to work. The therapeutic value of poetry is that not only does it help you through emotional turmoil, but it allows you the privilege of retrospect. By looking over the poetry written in moments of dire stress, you get to learn more about who you are and how you react to a given stimuli. The healing process comes with understanding why you are stressed and acceptance of those reasons, helping you to move forward in a positive way, using the lessons learned as therapy for future situations.

Poetry writing helps the mind to express itself, to remember or even to forget. It allows words to flow from pen to paper which may be otherwise blocked and unable to be communicated simply because of their complexity. Take your pen and paper, and attempt to write sketches, and with practice, you too can acquire the knowledge of how poetry works as a therapeutic medium.

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