We are, in general, starved for love in today’s world. This is not about romantic love although that is true as well. We are starved for a deep, abiding, unconditional love for ourselves, for humanity, and for life itself. We receive very misguided messages about what love really is and rarely experience love unconditionally. Poetry has the potential to be a powerful healing balm for your being and for your heart on many levels. Poetry has the ability to cultivate spaciousness of mind and can open the heart in profound ways, and yet so often we are not exposed to poetry over the course of
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