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Whenever and wherever we write poems on
whatever topics, our subconscious mind remains occupied with the situations or
the conditions of our surroundings. It may be political, social, economic,
cultural or even spiritual etc., but in our subconscious mind all these
continue to rule over our inner self. Not that every time we are aware of this,
but the subconscious layer of our mind can never make itself free from these
realities of our surrounding situations or conditions. Any poet who is well
equipped with his or her literary tools and can make a near perfect balance
between their literary craftsmanship and surroundings, can create a literary
ambience of highest calibre. Only then one can create a literary piece of work
which can be called poetry. So, it is indeed a difficult and very complex
method through which one has to proceed if one really wants to write true
poetry.
Yes, it is also true that almost none of
us starts writing poems keeping all these in mind and in our thought process.
We write poems as we wish. This wish primarily comes out of our mind to pen
down our emotions and thoughts. We like to express our views and put forth our
messages through our words and symbols, sketches of co-related pictures. We
wish to create a virtual reality of words in relation to our emotions and
sentiments, which are again primarily very personal. Yet, we hope others will
eventually relate to these personal expressions and applaud them to make them
universal. As we want to communicate our emotions and views with other peoples,
we make poetry as the medium to make this wish fruitful.
Most of the written poetry is the outcome
of these very personal emotions and expressions. But only those which can make
a perfect balance between the personal emotions and the surrounding realities
to represent the time both in eternity and temporal can be considered as true
poetry. Personally, not only as an editor but also as a literary worker I think
it is better to realise this complexity of poetry as early as possible in our
literary career. Yes, I also agree that very few of us have taken literature as
a professional career. Yet, whether we take it professionally or not, whenever
we consider literature as a part of our creative expressions, we should
consider it as a career, even if it is not associated with our professional
activities.
One may argue that these personal emotions
and sentiments which are the basic ingredients of writing poetry are the direct
or indirect outcome of our integrations with our own surroundings. Whether we
remain active or passive with our present times, our words do follow this
integration of our individual personalities with the general social behaviour
of our own times. So, whether we remain aware or not, our personal emotions and
sentiments are also the product of our times, which is closely related to our
surrounding situations and conditions. Yes, one can never deny these facts and
eventualities. Yet to attain that equilibrium of balance which we have already
discussed in details, through which one can represent his or her time perfectly
in relation to the eternal time scale requires extensive hard works and
dedication. Only then true poetry can emerge with all its complete dimensions.
Otherwise poetry remains captive in the poets’ own personalities.
Yes, poetry shouldn’t remain captive in
the realm of a poet’s own individual personality. It must be released into the
impersonal domain of universal consciousness. If your poem has that power to
make its place into the universal consciousness, only then it would be
considered as true poetry. Otherwise it would remain as your own emotions and
expressions unfortunately separated from its time and space. I can assure you
dear readers that almost all of us fail to realise this truth about poetry in
general. That is the reason why the vast majority of the poetical works,
especially of this present time, is actually a waste of time and effort.
Moreover, it has become the trend of this present time that we never focus on
the real issues, rather our main attention hovers around the superfluous ones.
That is very unfortunate. Publishing poetry collections draws much more
attention than the critical reviews of the poems. We like to attain the book
publishing events more than to organise a poetry seminar and participate in it.
Most of the literary events around the world do concentrate on publishing books
and the felicitation of the poets. We try to avoid controversies; we like to
remain in good terms with our fellow poets and friends. So, we never try to
evaluate the actual worth of literary aspect of the writings. We like to remain
popular among each other. These trends are actually playing havoc on the
resultant effects which bring down our literature to mediocrity.
Unfortunately, we at Our Poetry Archive
are not immune to this hard reality also. We publish poems only. We have not
created any space for literary discussions and debates. I think this is really
an important domain we should have focused on much earlier. Yes, we know our
own limitations also. Yet, within our limited capacity we publish interviews of
poets every month. We hope these interviews can open up doors however small
they are, to step ahead a little farther. This month we are glad enough to
introduce poet MAHIRE NAGİQİZİ of Azerbaijan as the Poet of The Month. Readers
will find one engaging interview of the poet with our editorial panel. With
this we are also presenting more than a hundred poems of 47 poets around the
world. We hope readers will engage themselves in discussions and debates on the
literary merits of the published poems.
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