by Lawrence Cooper | Aug 18, 2020 | Comox Valley Poet Laureate, Comox Valley Poetry, Conscious Living, Conscious Living Poetry, mindful poetry, Newsletter, Poetry Presentations
This poem is the winner of NIC poetry contest. It certainly fits with my series on Mental Wellness. I See You All. Orangutans bend forward, use leaves as cover and wait for the crushing rain to stop and the ladybug mother, I just discovered, laid her eggs in between...
by Lawrence Cooper | Aug 18, 2020 | Blog, Borderline Personality Disorder, Comox Valley Poet Laureate, Comox Valley Poetry, Conscious Living, Conscious Living Poetry, Mental Wellness, mindful poetry, Mindfulness, Newsletter, Poetry
This is the first on a series on mental wellness. Let’s begin with the most serious problem facing Canadians today. As of the first of June, there have been 15,393 opioid deaths in Canada since the beginning of 2016. Canada has set aside 300 million dollars as an...
by Lawrence Cooper | Aug 15, 2020 | Comox Valley Poet Laureate, Comox Valley Poetry, Conscious Living, Conscious Living Poetry, mindful poetry, Mindfulness, Newsletter, Poetry, Poetry Presentations
I believe that this body is mortal, but I also have an essence that is pure sentient energy. Since energy can never be lost, I believe that at the moment my heart and mind stop my body, heart, and soul energies will be transformed into pure...
by Lawrence Cooper | Aug 14, 2020 | Blog, Comox Valley Poet Laureate, Comox Valley Poetry, Conscious Living Poetry, mindful poetry, Mindfulness, Newsletter
In my circle of friends and colleagues here in Canada, the colleges I have attended, the professional organizations to which I have belonged, I can honestly say that we, as individuals within the group, are not a part of systemic racism. We see individuals of every...
by Lawrence Cooper | Aug 4, 2020 | mindful poetry, Newsletter, Poetry, Poetry Workshop
Dear all, Hope your summer is going well! The following is a description of an online workshop that Paul Nelson is teaching online this fall. It’s almost full, but he said that if he had enough registrants he would run a second class on Sundays starting Oct....
by Lawrence Cooper | Aug 4, 2020 | Blog, Comox Valley Poet Laureate, Comox Valley Poetry, Conscious Living, Conscious Living Poetry, Mental Wellness, mindful poetry, Mindfulness, Newsletter, The Higher Self
Still no takers to my generous offer. Too bad. I was ready to go. I am offering a google meeting for Poetry with Purpose on Monday Nights at 8 PM. We are looking at establishing mental wellness whatever that could mean to you. Basically it is sharing emotional poetry...
The ultimate purpose is to reach as many people as possible with the hopes of saving lives with resonance and connection to powerful poetry and personal transformation experience.