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The Religion Of The Poet
What is the religion of the poet? It is
the realization of the unity of his being with all existence. Where the
eternity touches the infinite through the poet's mind and vision, collaborating
with the words and phrases of the present. So a poet must live with his
surroundings in such a manner that he can relate himself with his time and
space. He can feel both the joy and pain of his fellow beings. He can apprehend
the problems of the individuals in the context of the social constructions and
political constraints. Only then a poet can air the voice of his time and
legacy.
Writing a poem should not be a hobby.
Should not be a way to spend the leisure time playing with words and feelings.
Writing a poem is actually a way of life. It is essentially a cultivation of
knowledge and wisdom to fulfil the ultimate universal truth in the poet's
individual personality, but not in seclusion rather in the inclusion with the
society as a whole. So a poet can never live alone or remain indifferent to his
time. A poet must work on to build up a human network of compassion. So the
religion of poet is essentially the religion of compassion.
At present we are living in a dangerous
time. If you open up your eyes and put your ears to the ground, you can feel
the pain of the time. Yes, people are suffering everywhere. Yes, too many
people are also enjoying their life according to their personal dreams or
individual or even collective whims. If we widen up our senses we can understand
the disparities between these two extremes. The number of peoples those who are
not living well is much greater than the ones who are really having a merry
time. Even if we do consider the quality of life, the disparity between these
two extremes is astronomically high. But why? Why should the largest number of
peoples have to suffer enormously? This is the ultimate question humanity
should have to answer.
If we tune ourselves with the news every
day, we know how it looks like. What are the ground realities around the world?
The current affairs that cause the sufferings of common people, and the very
few who gain substantially from these scenarios. Now if we analyze ourselves
properly, we have to confess that we are not compassionate enough to respond humanely
to these situations at all. We tend to believe that politics is not our cup of
tea. We the common people generally believe that society as a whole and the
political powers, in particular, are the right institutions to respond to the
sufferings of the common people. We as the individual can do nothing about it.
As we have no power with us. So how can we respond with the situations which
are beyond our reach?
Considering all these we remain
indifferent to the political situations in general. Gradually as we get
accustomed with this type of mental acceptance of our feeble powers, we become
less and less worried about our fellow beings and their everyday situations,
sufferings and the actual ground realities of our surroundings around the
world. Sadly enough all these end up in alienating us from humanism. We become
less and less human each day and more and more individuals day by day. Our
creative minds thus also become devoid of human compassion. Which become
literary more and more academic.
This should not be the poet's religion at
all. As we have already discussed that a poet should always be in unity of his
being with all existence. It is so essential in poet's life that without this
union of individual being and the entire existence one can never be creative
enough to produce anything substantial which can air the voice of his time
meaningfully authentically and humanly.
So
it is also our responsibility as an individual poet to keep the poet's religion
alive all the way of our literary activities among our creative fraternity.
Without which literature, in general, will suffer most. We at Our Poetry
Archive always try our level best to boost up poet's religion throughout all
our endeavors. We welcome poets around the world to respond more and more to
the ground realities with human compassion through their creative brilliance.
This will eventually make our world more human to live along.
With this hope, here we are again with this
present number of ‘Our Poetry Archive: August 2018 Volume Four Number Six.'
This is a general issue and we are glad to introduce eight new poets to our
regular readers in this number. We hope readers will also enjoy their talents
along with others' poems. This month our Poet of the Month is poet KRYSTYNA
GRYS of POLAND. Readers will find her interview with our editorial panel much
interesting. Our heartfelt thank goes to the poetess for her acceptance to our
invitation.
We would also like to request our readers
and poets alike, to introduce Our Poetry Archive to their friends and relatives
who love the music of poetry. Anyone who
wants to showcase his or her literary talents internationally is also most
welcome to OPA. Any talented poet can send at least 3 poems and one current
profile picture along with the explicit confirmation of the permission to
publish his or her copyrighted materials in OPA. Our mail address is
ourpoetryarchive@gmail.com
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