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Many of us write poetry in order to conquer our fears. Specifically, our fears relating to the uncomfortable feelings of anxiety, depression, PTSD and trauma. In every episode, I pick one topic related to mental health, and I read a few of my own poems related to that topic. Art in all of its forms has the power to subdue and sublimate these feelings into something that is beautiful, lasting, but also an honest appraisal of what happened to us, and what we hope will never happen to us again.
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Tonight’s theme is “Arrival” and how “arriving” really means noticing that we have been here all along. When the noise finally recedes to a manageable level, we can see that we are capable of vulnerability in front of another human being, and that we can be open to a healthy dose of intimacy.By Daniel Viragh
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We will be talking about the road, and the journey that it takes us on. So our first poem is called Footsteps, and it’s from my book, “At The End Of My Travels”. Tonight’s second poem is called “Everything Brings You,” and it’s from “Buddha’s Broken Fingernail”. Here too, the emphasis is on the journey itself, and where it brings us. Our third poem…
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We will be exploring the darkness. Specifically, we will be talking about the darkness that some of us find ourselves in, when confronted with mental health issues. The first poem is “You, Who Creates,” and it’s the title poem from my first book of poetry, published in 2018. The second poem is called “Creation,” and it’s also from “You, Who Creates…
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Tonight we will look at how pain, especially psychological trauma, is stored within the body. So the first poem I will read is called “My Body still Remembers”. The second poem is called “I Thought” and it deals with seeing one’s own trauma from the outside. Finally, the third poem is called “I Went Back” and in it, we see how important it is, afte…
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The topic for today is trauma histories: specifically, poems which talk about how trauma is passed from generation to generation. So the first poem thus is a meditation on the fictional town of Luminberg and on the Holocaust. The second poem is called “I’m Not Looking For The Easy Way Out, Baby,” and it’s about accepting our trauma histories. The t…
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We will be looking at poems that explore the subconscious as a land worth exploring. So, the first poem is called (aptly) “There’s A Land,” and it’s from my book “The Womb”. This second poem is called “In The Golden Balloon,” and it’s a meditation about the role of the Divine, within the subconscious. Finally, here’s a poem called “At The End of My…
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