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Why we write poems
or more than anything else, like to read poetry? Poetry never helps us to
acquire wealth or serves any purpose to solve our everyday problems. Is it
relevant in our life in general? These are the questions which are constantly
looming large especially in this present time of pandemic. People are
suffocating everywhere, either in the hospitals for the last breath of the life
or in home under lockdown. We have nowhere to go. Walls are closing down from
all sides around. Media is making hue and cry for a vaccine. As if a vaccine
will be the gate pass to return back to normalcy. People are dancing with this
tune of vaccine dream. Waiting anxiously for a vaccine era of life where
validity of vaccine will ensure our liberty to roam around. Time is changing
rapidly. We are constantly trying to adjust ourselves with the abnormalities of
the present time and accepting all these abnormalities as the normal conditions
of the modern era.
Yes, under the
locked down days online cultural activities are increasing beyond any
proportion. Too many people are organizing online poetry recital events.
Participating in literary discussions in front of online viewers around the
world. These are the activities to keep us insulated from depressions, mental
anxieties and boredom. Especially when we are to remain confined inside four
walls of our home. So, one can say, our literary activities has been increased
during this pandemic time. It sounds good that people are trying to use this
abnormal period in a creative manner, instead of surrendering to everyday
anxieties. Anxieties are there, no doubt. Everybody is worried about near and
dear ones. We are all in a dilemma and confusion about how to cope with the
present pandemic. Yet everybody is trying his or her best to manage the
situation accepting the conditions around with reasoning.
And poetry and
literature in general can help us immensely to nurture this skill of reasoning.
Not in the same way of pure science or technology. But in the other way around
developing our rational visions. This rationality of our vision is essential to
keep sanity during the most insane periods of time. Yes, poetry and literature
have this power to empower us with the inner philosophy of life by opening up
our vision to realize our time and it’s essence. A poet can see the unseen. Can
realize the visuals beyond it’s time frames. Can create a virtual reality which
can lead us towards the hidden truths of life. So that we can make a
comparative study of our individual life and the universal as well as eternal
life. A poet can bring us more and more close to the eternal time with the help
of individual time frames of past present and future. And then as a reader and
lover of poetry we can realize that even a pandemic of this scale is less significant
than it seems at present.
This realization
helps us immensely to step forward, to clear our vision and to look forward
beyond this pandemic. Beyond the deaths of our fellow human beings. Beyond the
loss of our near and dear ones. Even beyond the fear of approaching towards the
end of our life all of a sudden. Poetry and literature provide us with this
power of realization of the universal life and the eternal time. We can realize
this universal life even within the fractured time frames of past present and
future of our own individual self. Yes, it is an immense power to sustain even
the avalanche of catastrophic events. It makes us stronger to strive for our
own survival. But not in seclusion rather in a coherent manner with the
inclusion of the whole humanity.
Fortunately, this
lockdown period has made it possible with the help of information technology to
include the whole humanity into our own confidence in our realization of this
universal life within our individual time frames. Let’s utilize this golden
opportunity to minimize the conflicts among various races, religions,
communities and nationalities. Let’s carry forward our poetical endeavors to
bring out the conflicting traditions and heritages closer to each other. So
that we can respect each other’s traditions and heritages minimizing the
conflicting egos and prejudices. It can pave an endurable road to march forward
towards a new civilized world of peace and prosperity without wars and war
machineries. Without human deaths into the hands of war industrialists. Without
the alienation of human soul among conflicting human interests and prejudices.
Without any fear of defeats into the hands of each other’s.
We at Our Poetry
Archive are constantly working towards these goals since our first publication.
During this time frame of five and half years we can say that we have tried our
best to bring various traditions and heritages closer to each other’s. And we have
also tried our best to ease out the conflicts and to bring ourselves out of our
selfish egos to embrace the whole world.
With this edition
of OPA, we are glad enough to introduce poet MARIAN EIKELHOF. She is also a
psychologist. Her work inspires her to write about the emotional aspects of
life. Not only she describes feelings of love, intimacy and desire, but also,
she reflects about states of profound sadness and feelings of emptiness. On the
whole she criticizes dehumanization and an ongoing process of alienation in
human relationships. Marian’s poetry book “a zero-hour contract with life” has
been translated from Dutch into English and Turkish. For children who are being
bullied, she wrote the book “Lekker Boeiend!” (“I am not impressed!”) and
together with her sister Els Eikelhof she has written the manual “Feel yourself
Okay” for teachers guiding children with a disability. Her poems have been
published by several prestigious magazines and Marian is a peace activist
defending humanity by attending poetry festivals in Europe and Latin America.
Let’s hope our readers will enjoy both her interview and her poems along with this
whole issue consisting of more than hundreds of poems of the poets all over the
world.
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