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our default sound, the rhythm, of good poetry is
attitudes and literally spellbinding. It lulls, it sways,
beliefs. It calls to it rises and falls, and our hearts and
us, like the wild minds rise and fall along with it. Poetry
geese, as Mary literally entrains us into the energy,
Oliver would say, the mood, the vibration, even, that the
from an open poet conjures with her words and

sky. It is a images. The subtler and more refined
magical art, and that energy is, the more it can raise us
always has been to the best that we are. That it does so
— a making of is another reason poetry is so
language spells necessary today, when we need our
designed to open best selves more than ever.
our eyes, open
our doors, and # # #
welcome us into a Roger Housden is the author of the
bigger world, one new book Ten Poems for Difficult
of possibilities we Times, the most recent addition to his
may never have best-selling Ten Poems series, which
dreamed of. This began in 2001 with Ten Poems to
is also why Change Your Life. He offers writing
poetry can be workshops, both live and online, with
dangerous: we an emphasis on self-discovery and
may never be the exploration. Visit him online at
same again after www.RogerHousden.com.
reading a poem
that speaks to
our own life Excerpted from the
directly. I know book Ten Poems for

that when I meet Difficult Times.
my own life in a Copyright ©2018 by
great poem, I feel Roger Housden.
opened, clarified, Printed with
confirmed, somehow, in what I always permission from New
sensed was true but had no words for. World Library —
Anything that can do this is surely www.newworldlibrary.
necessary for the fullness of a human com.
life.

The word poet means a “maker” —
someone who crafts language into a
shape. The word maker has the same
etymological root as the words matrix,
and magic, and it’s true that the

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