WELCOMe
TO
OUR POETRY ARCHIVE
“By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives
us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and
what we mean to each other”
– Rita Dove
OUR POETRY ARCHIVE wishes all a happy New Year. Let
us hope for a better and prosperous world for each and everyone this time,
defying all the odds and evils.
Yes we also agree with poet Rita Dove, we can even
extend this idea farther - believing that poetry can also make us better human
beings. To become human we need to grow as humans developing our humanity. And
poetry has that inherent power to build up that humanity in our conscience, so
that we can grow up as a proper human being. So in this world of war and terror,
violence and conspiracy, we, in our limited capacity of this on line monthly
poetry journal decided last month to publish a special edition on POETRY FOR
PEACE addressing the current world wide wave of terrorism and war. We thought that
in these turbulent times, poets have a huge responsibility to raise their voices
against this blood bath around the world. And we were glad to get the
overwhelming response from the poets from all continents. We would like to
extend our gratitude to all the contributors, supporters and co-workers who
made the special edition a huge success. It has already been viewed by more
than 2000 readers worldwide within the first five days of its launching.
Yet just as the history of mankind always has a
darker side, we also experienced the other side of the story. Recently we had
to face an espionage style activity of sabotaging the publication of the Special
Edition. A rumor has been spread on the internet with a false allegation of
plagiarism against Our Poetry Archive. This deplorable activity to defame Our
Poetry Archive has been squarely countered by our poets and contributors around
the world. In spite of this damaging rumor, poets from all over the world are
showing their strong support and solidarity with this monthly poetry journal by
contributing generously with their poetical creation for publication. We are
extremely thankful to them and we would also like to extend our humble gratitude
to our readers as the viewership of Our Poetry Archive is increasing by leaps
and bounds. Our strength is our conscience. Our strength is our honesty and
integrity to form a world forum of poetic excellence for those poets who never
deny their social and human responsibilities and always try to use their talent
to defend humanity. Our strength is those poets who publish their creative
works in this forum and are proud to do it. Our strength is our readers, who
are with us from the very beginning of our journey and who are joining in
everyday. We are well aware of the perpetrators who have already shown their
true colors and may try to strike again but we believe in the collective
strength of human conscience and the moral characteristics of good people for a
good cause.
So here we are with the 10th issue of the 1st volume
of “Our Poetry Archive” January 2016. Like all our previous monthly
editions this number also presents poems of thirty-six poets around the world.
We feel proud to announce that our viewership is growing fast. And this puts
more responsibility on our shoulders. So we would like to have your regular
feedbacks to evaluate our endeavor in a constant manner. We remain ever
grateful to our poet contributors for their constant support to make this
journal resourceful.
And as usual we ask you all to keep on sending your
poetical creations only to our mail address: <ourpoetryarchive@gmail.com>
with your confirmed permission to publish your poems along with your profile
picture; on and before the 25th of every month.
Thank you all.
Editor
Our Poetry Archive
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