World Poetry Day Contest - Topic: Therapeutic Poetry
Therapeutic Poetry
I Prize
Prize winning poem of the World Poetry Day contest
Nirosha Abdul Malik
I B.SC, Psychology
For some a poem may seem to be creepy,
But little do they realize the underlying therapy.
True that it consists of mere words put together,
But do you realize that it can give you feather?
Feather to fly,
high in the sky,
With no sigh,
And zero wry.
A poem might seem like a random person’s blabber,
But for the wise, it’s like a navigator for a sailor.
At times a poem is like a funny baboon,
And at times, like shade in a sunny noon.
It heals you,
And peels you,
Peels you off, from your insecurities,
Makes you kneel, towards your priorities.
Do you still think a poem is creepy?
Well, you better realize it’s an underlying therapy!
Therapeutic Poetry
II Prize
Prize winning poem of the World Poetry Day contest
Mariam Adhila H II B. Sc Microbiology
With words both harsh and kind,
a medicine to the suffocated mind.
Wordsworth describes birds and bees,
Words worthy of putting us at ease.
A comfort to hearts that are hurt,
Choice of words that aren’t absurd
Damaged lives, that can relate,
To release anguish? This is a gate.
Stories of sorrow, from far and wide,
Soothing words, eternally by their side.
Doctors heal bodies,
Poets heal souls.
A few woeful melodies,
Sometimes assisting goals.
To write or not to write?
May always be a question.
But write to remove fright,
My heartfelt suggestion.
For some, their cure may be a cup of tea,
For me? My cure is therapeutic poetry.
Therapeutic Poetry
III Prize
Prize winning poem of the World Poetry Day contest
S. Nasreen
I.B. Sc Chemistry
Come on! Come on!
Sitting for a while
under the tree, a mile
away from tension
Acquiring everyone’s attention
Closing the wind
Opening the heart
Come, find
Read a part
Poem! For the cure
of headache,
Like a paracetamol!
Drowsiness of alcohol
Gives to you the poem.
Poem is a medicine for all.
Therapeutic Poetry
IV Prize
Prize winning poem of the World Poetry Day contest
Absara Varusui
I B. Sc Psychology
Poem, that flows into the soul like a wind,
And cleans up the dirt that struck in mind.
No one to hear the distress,
But poem stood to express.
With a flick poem gave her bliss.
But, this clicked in no one’s mind.
Her pen flows like waterfalls,
When she bursts with poetry.
Nothing made it happen,
But only her poem.
She found her best medicine,
To heal the wound in her heart,
Nothing made it happen,
But only her poem.
Poem flowed into the deep down,
She found herself healed and strong.
Nothing made it happen
But one and only her poem,
With her, for her, now and forever.
Therapeutic Poetry
V Prize
Prize winning poem of the World Poetry Day contest
M. Shajitha Sulthana
I BA English, ‘A’ Sec
Aromatic smell of plants is pleasant
But the buttery words are like crescent
Green tea gives freshness,
But poem gives refreshness.
Meditation soothens the mind
But poem soothens the soul.
Essential oil gives beauty
But poem delights our mind.
High medicinal values have neem
But poem is human’s beam
Medicine has to be extracted from the leaves
But poem extracts men’s feelings,
Medicines are bitter in taste
Poems are better to read
Ayurveda is the old method
Poetic Veda is the soul’s subject
Soothen your mind with its words
Reduce your tension with its lyric
Fill your heart with its theme
Poem! Letters of magic
Magical words.