Virgil Ballard's Blog – August 2015 Archive (2)

Writing poetry can help us get through the emotional pain we feel when we are down. http://bit.ly/1NuTifB

To heal emotional pain, first, you have to acknowledge that you are experiencing it. Unconsciously, we tend how to keep our emotions at bay so we can go through our daily lives with some kind of balance. You have to acknowledge the fact that you face issues every day, and that by the time you get to relax and unwind you often feel the urge to release your pent up emotions. That’s why I write. Writing poetry allows me to access my feelings. It lets me open up to emotions that I did not know I…