Poetry Corner Reflection

I was recently asked to reflect on the experiences of the process of focusing with poetry. It was a great question as it encouraged me to reflect and spend time with this query. Part of my reflection included spending time listening again to a podcast at onbeing.org “The Inner Landscape of Beauty” with John O’Donahue Some of his eloquent words resonated in me in a way that connected with the whole process of focusing with poems and writing poems.

“Poetry tries to draw alongside the mystery as it’s emerging and somehow bring it into presence, into birth. Everyone is creative, an artist and involved in the construction of their world.  We have a profound ability to be with each other, to be intimate” This is something I have experienced and witnessed in the Focusing and Poetry evenings when the symbols/metaphors in a poem physically interact with a felt sense carried in the body.

“I am larger, better than I thought, I did not know I held so much….” Walt Whitman

Marie Mc Guigan