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MISCONCEPTIONS ON NATURAL FEELINGS Talking Mental Health with Poet Dionysis Dissò by Mirko Tarena
First things first, let’s talk about the place where your poetry stems from. What sparked your journey into writing? Was it something specific, or did you feel a physical or spiritual pull to start putting words on paper? My need to write began very early, during my childhood, although it peaked at a much older age. What’s important is that I have written several works in both poetry and novels, which, after being completed, I read one by one… only to get rid of them eventually.
Did the reason that made you start writing originate from a need to solve a problem that seemed unsolvable, or was it more about expressing yourself through words? For me poetry is a form of communication of the author with the author himself, which he simply wants to record through words. Regardless of whether people will eventually show their production, I understand this need to write as a mental or spiritual urgency that calls for a way out. The greatest freedom a person can experience in relation to his own inner dialogue is to accept changes and be free to reconsider what was once thought wrong as positive, and vice versa. For too many years, this communication with myself was confined to writing small, private texts. Later on, the time came for this conversation with myself to manifest as a book. In what way does this conversation with yourself serve as a mirror to your inner emotional landscape, especially when it comes to your mental health journey?
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Poetry became another deeper form of communication translated into art, compared to other disciplines such as painting or sculpture, each one having their own interpretations and levels of reading. Poetry goes a step further, essentially making its words reborn within the reader. Through a poem, what I’m trying to do is make the reader feel and picture the state of mind when I was writing it. For instance, in a text I can describe the 10-second moment of the sun hit-