Never really read poetry before. I’m studying engineering and just transferred to a new school and looking for some inspiration for finding belonging here. Hoping for a book of poems I can come back to bit by bit.
From the bottom of the hierarchy upwards, the needs are: physiological (food and clothing), safety (where I’m at), love and belonging needs (friendship), esteem, and self-actualization.
by Pigo127
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I’d recommend Bukowski “What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire” is a good collection. Here’s a snippet:
How Is Your Heart?
during my worst times
on the park benches
in the jails
or living with
******
I always had this certain
contentment-
I wouldn’t call it
happiness-
it was more of an inner
balance
that settled for
whatever was occuring
and it helped in the
factories
and when relationships
went wrong
with the
girls.
it helped
through the
wars and the
hangovers
the backalley fights
the
hospitals.
to awaken in a cheap room
in a strange city and
pull up the shade-
this was the craziest kind of
contentment
and to walk across the floor
to an old dresser with a
cracked mirror-
see myself, ugly,
grinning at it all.
what matters most is
how well you
walk through the
fire.