Poetry played a fundamental part in my treasured relationship with my late mother. However, it is only in recent months, as a result of posing a simple question on Linkedin, that I have come to realise the power of poetry in connecting people from all around the world. I write about this in Section Ten of Social Bridges.
SOCIAL BRIDGE ~ Jean Tubridy connecting with you from Ireland 
When I was running poetry workshops in prisons during the 1980s the social bridge created there was referred to as ‘Life Lines’. This turned into a project where neighbourhood houses and adult education centres in rural towns were paralleled with prison workshops to link the communities inside and outside the walls by their common interest in literature and the higher expression of self that poetry encourages. Thank you for reminding me of the power of this by your Linked In discussion, Jean.
S’hi, thank you for sharing this wonderful example of a social bridge and the way in which poetry was so central to it. I agree that poetry has a power that can transcend all sorts of ‘boundaries.’