Tuesday, December 1, 2015

EDITORIAL


WELCOMe
TO
OUR POETRY ARCHIVE
“I have . . . noticed in myself certain states which I may well call poetic, since some of them were finally realized in poems. They came about from no apparent cause, arising from some accident or other; they developed according to their own nature, and consequently I found myself for a time jolted out of my habitual state of mind”.

-PAUL VALERY


Poetry is the art by means of words. The word itself is of Greek origin and its etymological meaning is "making” so a poet is actually a person who creates. This oldest of the human arts was born in song and dance. Rhythm and rhyme go hand-in-hand when it comes to poetry. Though the language of poetry is the language of emotions, it is not devoid of rationality either.

We like to define poetry as we like, but trying to define poetry is probably a waste of time and energy. Yet thinkers and poets alike have tried to define it down the ages.  Poetry is a state of mind and feelings we try to visualize through our own words. The essence of it comes from our emotions as well as rationality. It may be a matter of the overflow of powerful feelings; emotions recollected in tranquility. To someone; poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. We may even go further to believe; in writing poetry the human mind imitates the divine mind in a god-like act of creation.

Poets use new metaphors, putting things in new perspectives in an attempt to make us see and feel things as if for the first time. They renew the old in their own styles to keep us attached with our traditions and heritage only to create a new dimension for the future, paving the present in a continuous manner.

So here we are with the 9th issue of the 1st volume of the monthly online poetry journal: “Our Poetry Archive: December 2015” Like all our previous 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 would like to ask you all to keep on sending your poetical creations to our mail address:<ourpoetryarchive@gmail.com> on and before the 25th of every month. Thank you all.

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