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Power of Poetry
The power of poetry
Poems have power. A power to enrich our lives to a larger extent and in more ways than we might be aware of. The PowerOfPoetry site is creating a resource of personal accounts, events and personal meetings to explore and share real life stories about poetry’s power to illuminate, challenge, inspire, change, guide and comfort us.
The transforming
power of poetry
Tell us about a specific poem that has been important to you and why by using the form below.
Poetry Power
Have you experienced the power of poetry or do you want to read about some who has ?
Explore this site’s collection of personal accounts from viewers about the
impact specific poems have had on their lives or share your own experience.
Do you write, read, recite or listen to poetry?
Meet with others and share the poems that are important to you and talk about why.
Is life more challenging than usual?
Find other ways of experiencing life through the help of poetry.
The poem that changed my life:
Go to the limits of your longing by Rainer Maria Rilke
Sarah Lind
Nurse