Restorative Poetry Rights & Responsibilities

The right to use home language and expression that feels natural and useful
The right to write a poem that is long or short
o spoken, written or silent,
o misspelled or spell checked
o any topic is not too big or small
o rhyme or don’t rhyme-doesn’t matter
o written on a napkin, check statement, notebook, in a phone, laptop or elsewhere
The right to be true to yourself
The right to make up words and be creative
The right to free write or use a particular form
The right to borrow words from a poem or quote of inspiration
The responsibility to care for other’s anonymity
The responsibility to allow others to be themselves
The responsibility to listen as much or more than you share
The responsibility to share your gifts and seek to understand other’s gifts
The responsibility to reread and revise your poem, take out and replace overused phrases
The responsibility to give credit to borrow ideas or phrases form other writers, cultures, places, etc...
The responsibility to keep dreaming, hoping, encouraging, growing, expanding
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