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10 Ways Poetry Supports Wellness
Feeling blue? Aches and pains got the better of you? Pick up a pen or chapbook – poetry has your back! It’s been a stormy time up at the Sky House. Once again, poetry has saved my life (the love and care of family and a strained but persevering public health system were also essential…
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News
SkyHouse is on a break. Lee has a poem published this week in Tarot, one of Aotearoa, New Zealand’s, most beautiful literary journals. You can check out Lee’s latest poem along with lots of other wonderful poetry and art at http://www.tarotpoetry.nz.
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NZ Xmas in Pohutukawa, Rata, Banksia Bottlebrush
Sky House is overdue for a “Staircase” (self-care) post. However, Lee is on an unscheduled “wellness hiatus”. In the meantime, here is some poetry prettiness from the sick bed… Your exotic horticultural brush sweeps full my palm with feel of cats paw in retracted claw or, sleeping arctic shrew your petal needles like haberdashery wound…
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Sky Phenomena
Cloud, storms, rain, hail flurries and forks of lightning, star blaze and a waning moon, comet flare and meteor streak, eclipses occasional rainbow miracles poetry resides in skies in vividity of light wild rides backs of water drops sculpting stratus scapes colour draped by sunrise flows through eyes mild and murkied, quiet mind, busy finger…
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Geographies of Imagination and Memory
Minds live wide lives from the ways of wild waters to slow mountains lumber unimpeded, North and South grow with each shock rumbling kick Papa’s final progeny reaches out to arms of sky stretching prominence into dominance alps are spines of memory lumbar peaks instinctive, ancestral, personal, habitual volcanic rock of memory, all masterful ever…
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Principles of Journalling
“It Winds” A lifetime is a long, long curl of quiet moments interrupted by noise though I searched to find I never met a straight line in all my life all observed it curves it coils winds through time only…
About Lee, and the Sky House
Lee is a mixed-heritage writer, mother of three, and former clinical psychologist, from Otautahi, Chch, in Aotearoa NZ. Themes in her writing include illness and coping, the experience of creativity, nature, domestic life, and women’s relationships and identity as mothers. Currently, she is at home most days nursing a chronic inflammatory illness – but she is working on that! You can follow Lee’s blog by subscribing to the Sky House newsletter (below) or follow the Sky House Poetry page on Facebook.
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“Poetry is… emotion recollected in tranquillity”, William Wordsworth
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