VC Poetry: Poetic Care for the Soul

VC Poetry: Poetic Care for the Soul If a picture says a thousand words, a poem is the bottling of those words...Reading them, a cool cool drink...Enjoy! (ed.)

Anyone who has ever picked up a pen, in a moment of extreme emotion, will understand the power of the written word to transform... Anyone who has ever kept a diary, or penned a song, or written a poem, or a letter (fictitious or real) will appreciate the sense of relief and often clarity, that comes with putting thoughts and emotions onto a page (or screen!)... Anyone who has ever faced dark mom

ents of solitude, alienation, loss or grief, will appreciate the deeply human and dire need to be heard and understood...

The pen and the page are the most readily accessible of friends...non-judgmental and helpful...becoming a gentle mirror for the soul...and shedding light on what often feels confusing and without hope... There is always hope...because there will always be a pen nearby to lend 'an ear' at those times when mere mortals are either asleep, unavailable or unapproachable...

Please note: This page is not a professional counselling service, nor can it take the place of such... Anyone who has faced challenges will know that it takes a holistic approach to heal from many of life's challenges..It is neither shameful nor a sign of weakness to seek out help and a compassionate ear and heart when life overwhelms...It is in fact a sign of great strength and maturity and responsibility and wisdom...

No one is impervious to pain...No one is impervious to struggles and no one person has all the answers to the problems of our lives... it is my deep hope that this page offers a place of encouragement, refreshment and reflection on what is effectively our common humanity...and that the spirit of hope will deeply inspire everyone who visits to hang in there, to keep hope alive and ultimately to remember that 'love does make the world go round'...as corny and cliche as that sounds...

Love... There is no greater healer on our planet...Enjoy your visit!

07/07/2025

All the windows in this house are broken, Mohammed Moussa

02/07/2025

A poem written by Khaled Juma, a Palestinian living in the genocide in Gaza.

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20/06/2025

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Read this:
14/06/2025

Read this:

ā€œTo the Soldier Who Points a Gun at Meā€

You think Iā€™m here to die.
You think thatā€™s all we know how to doā€”
bleed, bury, break.

But listen.

I grow things.
Tomatoes in rusted cans.
Hope in children who donā€™t know what the word means yet.
I buildā€”walls, stories, mornings.
I fix roofs with one hand and hold my daughterā€™s hand with the other.

And you?
You carry a gun like itā€™s your purpose.
But Iā€™ve seen men become ghosts
long before the trigger is pulled.

You call this land a threat.
I call it history .
The call to prayer. The school bell.
The pot of lentils boiling over.

Donā€™t mistake my softness for surrender.
I donā€™t need to shout to be strong.
The fig tree in my yard
has stood through three wars
without raising its voice.

Youā€”
with your steel and fear,
your borrowed powerā€”
you patrol streets looking for danger
and miss the beauty flowering between the cracks.

You fear death.
I fear forgetting how to live.

So if you shoot,
know this:
I wasnā€™t born to hate.
But I wonā€™t vanish to make you comfortable.
I wonā€™t flinch so you can sleep easier.

I am not your victim.
I am not your enemy.
I am the reminder
that even under occupation,
a man can love too fiercely to be erased.

Sameh Shahrouj

10/06/2025

If I can stop one heart from breakingā€¦

07/05/2025

The Palestinian who was detained by the Israeli army in Gaza in November 2023 won the prize for a series of essays in the New Yorker

25/04/2025
Still I Riseā€¦ Still I Riseā€¦Still I Riseā€¦
19/04/2025

Still I Riseā€¦
Still I Riseā€¦
Still I Riseā€¦

The Trump Administration has removed about 400 books it deems as DEI and has kept Adolph Hitlerā€™s ā€œMein Kampfā€ on the shelves of the U.S. Naval Academy.

The Trump Administration is trying to indoctrinate its soldiers in far right ideology and right wing bias. This is an antisemitic administration that is using its support of the state of Israel as ideological weaponization in its attempts to silence people.

19/04/2025
Whoaā€¦. Gut wrenching for another mother to hearā€¦.
19/04/2025

Whoaā€¦. Gut wrenching for another mother to hearā€¦.

19/04/2025

ā€œSocrates said, ā€˜The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.ā€™ He wasn't talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking responsibility for what the words mean. Language used as a means to get power or make money goes wrong: it lies. Language used as an end in itself, to sing a poem or tell a story, goes right, goes towards the truth.

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.ā€

ā€“Ursula K. Le Guin

(Book: The Left Hand of Darkness)

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Anyone who has ever picked up a pen, in a moment of extreme emotion, will understand the power of the written word to transform... Anyone who has ever kept a diary, or penned a song, or written a poem, or a letter (fictitious or real) will appreciate the sense of relief and often clarity, that comes with putting thoughts and emotions onto a page (or screen!)... Anyone who has ever faced dark moments of solitude, alienation, loss or grief, will appreciate the deeply human and dire need to be heard and understood... The pen and the page are the most readily accessible of friends...non-judgmental and helpful...becoming a gentle mirror for the soul...and shedding light on what often feels confusing and without hope... There is always hope...because there will always be a pen nearby to lend 'an ear' at those times when mere mortals are either asleep, unavailable or unapproachable... Please note: This page is not a professional counselling service, nor can it take the place of such... Anyone who has faced challenges will know that it takes a holistic approach to heal from many of life's challenges. It is neither shameful nor a sign of weakness to seek out help and a compassionate ear and heart when life overwhelms. It is in fact a sign of great strength and maturity and responsibility and wisdom... No one is impervious to pain. No one is impervious to struggles and no one person has all the answers to the problems of our lives. It is my deep hope that this page offers a place of encouragement, refreshment and reflection on what is effectively our common humanity...and that the spirit of hope will deeply inspire everyone who visits to hang in there, to keep hope alive and ultimately to remember that 'love does make the world go round'...as corny and cliche as that sounds... Love... There is no greater healer on our planet...Enjoy your visit!