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Poetry is not the turning loose of emotions. This had been
pointed out by one of the greatest English poet of all time T. S. Eliot. Yes we
do agree with him. We believe most of the poets and readers of the present time
would also think so. Yet, it is also true that without any emotion, words and
lines can never be transformed into poetry. So, emotional interpretation of
your feelings is also vitally important for writing poems. But one has to
control the release of emotions while interpreting his or her feelings in case
of writing poetry. Poetry actually demands this from its creator to control the
personal emotions in such a manner that the words and lines can represent impersonal
interpretation of the feelings with a world view in the canvas of eternity.
Only then the readers can relate themselves with your
poetry. Otherwise poetry remains the personal notes of its creator. Now with
this belief or point of view if we proceed we’ll find that most of the written
poems are actually a turning loose of emotions of their creators. Actually this
is the basic instinct of human beings to portray their feelings in writing
poems. Even the readers are more or less accustomed with this type of writing
especially in the social media over Internet. We know, with this invent of
Internet and with the revolutionized communication system with the commence of
social medias, the tsunami of poems that fill our screens everyday are of this
type. It is because anyone can publish his or her writings any where over the
net. You don’t have to submit your poems to the renowned literary magazines and
wait for months for the publications, which would depend on the editors. You
can publish your own e-Books or even the printed versions through e-commerce. So
in this present time anyone can claim to be a poet. It is only up to your wish
and the economic strength. And it is happening everywhere.
Internet has made it possible.
Actually this is the time of confusion. Who is the real
poet or actually what the poetry is. Nowadays people do think poetry is the
only medium that can be easily ventured upon. So, almost everyone is writing
poetry overnight. If you ask them how long are you writing poems? If you get a
honest answer, you’ll find most of them are writing poems not more than for six
or seven years. Yes, this invent of information technology has made it possible
for all this so called self proclaimed poets and poetesses. Even if one would
observe the proceedings of the social media giant face book; one can easily
find this truth. Keep a keen eye of interest over the walls of your own friends
you’ll find most of the walls are jammed with everyday poems. Now, one can
argue that it is better to try out with poetry than to spend the time doing
nothing creative. Yes we hope everyone would agree with this argument. We have
nothing against it. Although this is not bad for society as a whole, yet this
trend is not good for literature either.
Then what to do? This is the ultimate question for the
literary fraternity of the world. Should we consider this trend will actually
bring mediocrity in literature? Or can we believe that with the passing of time
this trend will be phased out eventually. These are the questions of this time.
We don’t have any clear-cut answers either. We can only try to work out some
ways or methods to put some checks and balances into these proceedings. Again
another question will crop up. How can we do that? And even if we can find out
some way out, it would still be remained as a question of morality that who are
we to put our judgments at this level? No, not only we or someone else or any
other institutions can become moral police of literature. In spite of these we
can only encourage others to uplift their literary taste for the benefit of the
literature as a whole. Yes that can be done, and even over the internet. Our
Poetry Archive is only trying to do this since its inauguration in web
publishing.
Our readers are well aware of this fact and we are
constantly trying our best to introduce more and more new poets of highest
literary caliber around the world. We believe with this continuous process of
uninterrupted endeavor to bring out poems of highest literary merit can
eventually uplift the overall taste of the readers and upcoming poets as well.
Without becoming the moral police of literature, we think this is a way out
from this confusing time of which we have discussed earlier. And to our relief
we have got the encouragement blessings and supports of many renowned poets and
poetesses from different parts of the world to make Our Poetry Archive one of
the rearguards of the literary frontier of this present time.
Just like all our regular issues this July we are also
presenting more than hundreds poems of forty one poets and poetesses of the
world. This month we are also glad to present poetess Claudia Piccinno of Italy
as the ‘Poet of The Month’. Readers will find an interview of the poet taken by
our editorial team supervised by poetess Deborah Langford and poetess Stacia
Reynolds. We are really grateful to the
poet for the interview and hope our readers will also enjoy both his poems and
interview.
We have good news for our readers; this general edition
will be followed soon by the much awaited edition of “OPA Anthology of
Contemporary Women’s Poetry”. This anthology will feature near about three
hundred poetry from all over the world. Please wait a while for it’s’
publication. We’ll inform about the publishing date in our face book page and
group as well.
Those who would like to participate in our upcoming
editions, please send at least three poems and a profile picture, along with
the explicit confirmation of your permission for publication of your copy
righted materials in OPA well before the 21st of every month. You can also add
one short Biography written in the 3rd person narrative along with
the submission. With this note I would like to invite you all to this
collection of poems of the World Poets. I would also like to convey our
gratitude to all the poets who have participated in this number with their
literary brilliance, on behalf of the entire editorial desk of OPA.
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