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Poetry often emerges effortlessly from an expressive arts experience and serves as another bridge between the conscious and unconscious. In the language of poetry, we capture deeper meanings, a flow or feeling, themes, or new rhythms.
By way of the poem, the world emerges within us and finds voice.
Click the poem titles below for poetry examples.
Branches
by Micaela Myers
Excerpts from: Secrets from the Center of the World
by Joy Harjo, Creek Nation poet
In the Night
by Sky Mountain Expressive Arts Group, April 2007
Allowing
by Chris Britain, May 13, 2006
Mindful
by Mary Oliver
Layers upon layers
by Sky Mountain Expressive Arts Group, May 2007
Short Short
by Micaela Myers
Coyote sings.
by Sophia