Margaret Bukowska, a clinical research nurse, therapist, and poet, shares how poetry functions as a versatile healing and coaching tool. The conversation covered two core methods for using poetry with clients, the philosophy behind accessible creativity, and Margaret's published works and upcoming projects. Key insight: a poem doesn't need to be perfect to be powerful — "a lousy poem, but I feel so much better" captures the entire approach.
Margaret wrote and shared this poem as her response to the global Covid lockdown because no matter what the external circumstances are, and how much or how little control we have over then, there’s always Hope, and we are All One Humanity
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In Our extraoridinary times...
The social-distancing,
The self-isolating,
The scary word “Quarantine”
that we so dread...
We have been doing this
all along,
by putting up false pretences,
by building higher (de)fences,
keeping up with appearances,
by the shallowness
of our connections,
those meaningless conversations...
And Now,
with the death toll
that this Invisible Army from within
rings up every day
-we feel each and every one of them
as our own
And in the confines of our physical walls
our collective mask falls...
And in that distance in space,
just as the Universe always meant,
We Are UNITED
once again...
