Poetry is meant to be read out-loud. At least this is what I discovered during our class last week. As each student read their poem, ideas, opinions and emotions lifted off the page and transcended written word. I never realized how powerful free form poetry can be. Students actually got teary-eyed, angry and heartfelt in their recitations. It was also wonderful to hear so many different style of poetry. Some used elevated vocabulary, some vulgar, some verbose and others trite. Yet, none of it came out of ego. It came out of each writers' soul. It was if we could listen to their heart talking. I believe such openness and vulnerability brought us together as a class. We bonded because all of the experiences that were written about , no matter how personal or unique, were universal to us in emotion. We are all connected as humans. Reading poetry aloud, likes us to our common core: humanity.
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