The outpouring of your strongest feelings into a verse is the way many people cope with their pain after a break-up. But even if you do not create a masterpiece, pouring out your pain on paper does help. The very process of setting your thoughts down is a healing process.
If you have been through an immense pain or if you have lost someone you really loved. Bring it all out in the form of a poem. This is a great outlet for your emotions. It is like the whistle on the pressure cooker, which blows when the pressure of steam is too high. When your heart is burdened with sorrow and even the smallest of tasks seem impossible, just let go. Sit down. Take out your pen and paper and write it all out into a poem.
If you have just been through a breakup, you might be feeling down in the pits. You might feel as if you have no real friend. Well, let it all out. Make a poem out of it. You do not have to be a Wordsworth or a Shelley to express your own feelings in verse. You don’t even need good language skills to bring out your emotions. These are your emotions and your can express them in your own way.
A very crucial part of healing is the letting out of emotions and this can happen through poetry. You are confronting your demons by putting them down in paper. Remember, this does not have to be an excellent work of art. You are just doing it for yourself, to heal the wounds too deep for medicines to reach. Forget the rhyme scheme, there is no need for mastery of meter. Just pure emotions raw and unreserved- that is what you want to bring out.
If you want you can jot down all your feelings in prose and then divide the sentences and verses according to your choice. You could rearrange them; re-word them- the entire process can be very soothing.
After you are done with one poem, you could feel the floodgates open. You might want to write other poems. Describing other aspects of your pain can be good. Do not restrain yourself. Once you let out the pent-up emotions, you will really be able to heal.
Now that you are done, you could do whatever you want with the poem. You could store it away in your closet, these are private emotions, and you might not want to share them. You could show it to a close friend, who will empathize with you. A relative, who can share your pain, can also be a nice person to read your creation. If you wish to remain anonymous, you can have your poem published on the Internet. There are many free websites available for this. If you want feedback, you can enable comments. It might help you when you see that you are not alone, others have been through the same emotional trauma. Now, you could just put it all behind you and get ready to move on.
