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Poetry is one of the powerful medium to communicate with the readers. It communicates with people and time, nature and soul. The forms may differ but the essence remains the same and powerful if the creator can express his or her talent with proper dignity and elegance. Therefore, poetry is one of the best medium for this purpose. The primary obligation of a poet is to communicate with his or her readers. To broaden the canvas of their vision as well as feelings for both the life as a conscious being and people and time in general. Poetry is born if and only if one can achieve this.
As we are working in the literary field
with poetry, it is our way of expression to disclose our emotions and
sympathies with others. Poetry without sympathy can never touch human souls
with emotion. Poetry without emotion can never move human souls with sympathy.
Yet only the emotional poetry may bore us soon. Therefore, to preserve the
emotions with sympathy in expressing poetic talents requires great skill. If
only we can master this skill only then we can be able to reach more hearts
with our poetical creative brilliances. In addition, even this skill requires
deep philosophical insights with spiritual realizations of eternity. Only then,
a poet can communicate with a greater audience.
Now what is genuine poetry? Poetry
is not playing with words at all. Poetry is the expression of life. Poetry
gives us the true meaning of our existence as human being. Not that, our life
depends on literature or poetry. Any one of us can survive and even thrive, in
our materialistic life; without even building up any relations with literature
or poetry as a whole. We all know that it is quite possible. However,
literature can never survive without establishing any direct relation or having
any affinity with life as a whole. Therefore, we understand that literature
depends on our life. Moreover, our life is full of sufferings pains and
despair. Our life is also full of hopes and of infinite possibilities. It is in
constant flux of good and evil, hope and despair, confusion and belief. So how
can we deny all these in our inner soul? How can we just play with words for
the sake of literature forgetting everything?
Therefore, Poetry demands human
compassion. Without which poetry becomes just jumble of dead words, void, a
lifeless entity. Who would like to read that poem which is just a formation of
words and sound without any true soul? In addition, to bring out that soul in
our poetry we need to establish a direct relation with our surroundings, with
our present time with human compassion. Do you think keeping yourself insulated
from the present world would bring that soul in your writing? I am afraid, that
is not possible at all.
So keeping ourselves insulated from
the human sufferings, from the tragedies of political events; even if we try to
be creative in literary field, all our creativity will be lifeless without any
true soul within. Nobody would recall our poetical brilliance for a second time
after going through that sort of caricature of poetry devoid of true soul.
Moreover, to bring out that true soul in our literary creativity we have to be
compassionate enough not only to feel for the sufferer but also to find out the
true causes of the Evils that prevail in the everyday domain of our world. This
is the responsibility of a true poet. Not that, our poetry will change the
world, yet it can be reflective of our time and situation in a true manner.
Where, reader can find a true soul, which can communicate with its time and
sufferings.
Poetry with this true soul is the
genuine poetry, which can communicate with its readers even before it is
understood. Here lies the true strength of poetry.
Alas, most of the poetical
activities of our present time fall short of this benchmark. As we have lost
our compassions, our sympathies. As we are too busy with our own, self
interests. As we have started believing only in materialistic development of
our personal life. We like to publish books in our names. We like the literary
fame and celebration of personal goals. We thrive for individual achievements.
So, most of our literature and poetry of the present time have lost their true
soul of humanity. Therefore, it remains no more communicative in the true
essence.
Should we then stop writing or
reading poetry? Certainly not. We should only keep all these true and essential
facts in our mind before embarking upon writing poetry. I think, it would
obviously help us to focus on our own skill and develop it in its true manner.
And if we can achieve this, I do believe our poetry would be able to
communicate with our audience more spontaneously and more profoundly. More over
it would help us to uphold the essence of genuine poetry as had been advocated
by T. S. Eliot.
So dear friend we at Our Poetry
Archive is constantly trying our level best to march forward towards this line
of activities with honesty and integrity. After the successful publication of
the OPA Anthology of Poetry 2019: ‘Spirit of Nature’, we are here with yet
another monthly number of Our Poetry Archive, September 2019: V-5 N-6. In
this number, the readers would find poems of 47 poets of different continents
around the world. We are much elated to publish the enlightened interview of poet
ISMAYILOVA MESME ALIYULLA KIZI of Azerbaijan. We do hope, like all the previous
editions of OPA, our readers would certainly like this number and appreciate
the literary merit of the poems published.
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