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poetry, dreams, and the body
http://blog.rickbelden.com
A blog by Rick Belden, author of Iron Man Family Outing. Topics include men's issues, masculine psychology, poetry, dreams, creativity, recovery from childhood abuse, and the search for psychospiritual wholeness.
- Added on: Oct 18th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Rick Belden
- Listed in: Poetry Development and Growth
- Tags: poetry dreams survivor men's issues childhood abuse masculine psychology
Recent Posts
“poetry for men” and other problematic labels
I’m not crazy about labels, but I understand that they can be useful and necessary in helping us sort through the mass of information to which we’re all constantly exposed. So for some time now, I’ve been struggling with the proble...
broken bones and the father wound
In a poem called “use everything” from my recently-completed book, Scapegoat’s Cross: Poems about Finding and Reclaiming the Lost Man Within, I wrote, “bad luck is the language of the unconscious.” In the eight weeks si...
D.H. Lawrence – “Healing”
I’ve experienced three major health crises in the last six years: a ruptured appendix that nearly killed me in the fall of 2004, a serious back injury that sidelined me for a month in the fall of 2006, and a broken wrist and shoulder sustained ...
“child” at Carnival Against Child Abuse
My poem “child”, an outtake from my book Iron Man Family Outing, is one of 35 posts featured in the November 2009 edition of the Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse, which is hosted this month by Marj aka Thriver at the Survivors Can Thrive...
dead flowers in the garden – then and now
In the spring of 1989, I had the good fortune to attend a one-day conference with Robert Bly in Austin, Texas. The event was filmed by journalist Bill Moyers for his 1990 documentary, A Gathering of Men. Robert Bly was not well-known among the gener...
fallen again
now I am fallen detached from my dreams knocked down and broken for reasons unknown. fallen again struck down from above a thunderbolt thrown from the father god’s hand. the tower falls when the lightning strikes strength turns to weakness in a...
