Avoiding Confrontations By Writing Poetry Book

Victoria Hasenauer has experienced many conflicts, so she wrote poetry as a remedy. In Avoiding Confrontations By Writing Poetry, Victoria looks to nature;

Blasted ears of autumn leaves diminished in the amplitude

propel each other in their utmost arguments for

symbols that block the on-switch

but she's off on a tangent through simple hidey-holes

whisking inborn tunes strumming

an ambulance of atrocious complaining red tulips.

Poetry therapy can be traced back to primitive times. Poems were written for healing negative conditions. Freud wrote, "Not I, but the poet discovered the unconscious." Victoria fashions her verse as a catharsis. She acquaints us with her struggles in the poem "So Close To Your Merrymaking';

I awakened to you climbing on,

something about

the scent of you, like an old man that doesn't shower,

like burning skin or rotting cheese.

Victoria articulates moods and empowerment;

It only requests a starting point deep hole above I can dive past; transforming, rising and falling intensely me.