Mental Health & Poetry with Poet Ursula Rucker | The Healing Verse Poetry Line

This is a prescription poem for pain.
Take this poem as directed by the Most High.
Apply this poem as needed.
Overdose on this poem…
if it cures your pain…
until it cures your pain.
(from Prescription Poem, by Ursula Rucker)
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[@henriquetmudjibumufoncol2279]

Ursula Rucker!!! Rocket 🚀!!❤

[@ginahansen8428]

"...I want to write this pain, all the way out of me, until, there is none. And so I write." 😢 This hits home, to the memory of my Beloved mother, Vicky Ruby. 🕊️❤💜 Miss you so very much 😭

[@thoughtoftheday6551]

Impactful words. Sometimes we drown in all of our pain and mental health issues finding no way to breathe again while the start of our solution is within us. At times I have felt this way and taking the first step in expressing myself was difficult but I found that poetry and expressive writing helped me overcome this.

[@OC87RD]

Thank you for the thoughtful comment and your encouragement. Wonderful to know that poetry and expressive writing have been a positive part of your process.