Many believe poetry has a distinctive role to
fulfil compared with other cultural objects and experiences. It connects
people’s cognitive and affective responses. It reconciles our mind and body,
experiences, and memories. The contribution poetry can make to our well-being,
as well as the importance of focusing on both the affective and cognitive
dimensions of our engagement with poetry to enhance both appreciations of the
work and personal development. By offering us an opportunity to recapitulate
life as a whole connecting with time and space, poetry serves its purpose of
cultivating our thinking process. So, reading poetry helps us a lot. It helps
us to mature with time and experience beyond the domain of our personal life. I
think this is crucial. Realizing our personal life in relation to eternal life
is essential to attain a more mature view of true perspective.
Reading poetry is a way of meditation also.
Although primarily we believe, it is a hobby and with time it becomes a habit.
Yet poetry reading is a way of meditation to enrich ourselves to achieve the
true perspective of life. And it is also only through poetry reading that we can
get in touch with the various literary traditions and heritages. This
experience helps us a lot to develop a world view in our realization of the
world and life. This realization of the world view brings us closer to each
other. At present we need to march forward at a great pace toward this
direction. It’ll minimize the risk of confrontation among various races and
nationalities. Thus, it may work positively to reduce conflicts through
developing the essence of a unified humanity.
We can also say, reading poetry helps us a lot to
work toward unifying humanity around the world. It will directly work to resist
the world views of competition among political and corporate rivalries. These
rivalries have divided the world into various sections of conflicting interests.
The purpose of reading poetry can positively help us to evolve through
co-operation instead of competition. So, one can easily say, reading poetry can
unify the world towards humanity instead of dividing human civilization into
confronting sections. This is the most important social role of reading poetry
in our life.
So, it is not true that we should read poetry only
for a personal pleaser. We should go on reading poetry to derive the pleaser of
unifying with all. Poetry can sanctify our souls as well as our minds and
purifies our hearts. Without which we can never communicate with our
surroundings to achieve a unified state of existence. Poetry teaches us that we
can never live disconnected from our time and universal soul. It helps us to gain
those important insights to chose the right path to follow in our own life.
Again, this road will lead us to fulfill our life among all others with true
humility.
I do believe we at Our Poetry Archive are
fulfilling this role of spreading awareness throughout the world. Reading,
reading, and reading poetry can make us truly human. So, our goal is to provide
the quality materials to serve this purpose. Since April 2015 we are working on
this plan to cater with the best materials of available poetical creations to
the readers around the world. Since then, we have published 74 monthly volumes
of poetry collections and six annual anthologies of world poetry. Also, we have
arranged the publication of the 7th volume of the annual anthology scheduled to
be published this July 2021. Anyone can still participate in this upcoming OPA
annual anthology of poetry 2021. This year the theme is ‘Midnight Moments’. We
invite three poems written only on this particular theme to submit along with
the recent profile picture of the author and a short Bio of around 300 words
written only in 3rd person narrative. The submission address only for the poems
written on the theme, “Midnight Moments” is opa.anthology@gmail.com and the
last date of submission has been extended to 30th May 2021.
We would like to remind our readers and poets that
the address for the monthly submissions of poetry is:
ourpoetryarchive@gmail.com We hope this issue will also get your attention with
much enthusiasm. This month we are presenting poet Monica Maartens of South
Africa as the poet of the month. Poet Anca Mihaela Bruma of Italy has taken an
interview of the poet exclusively for our readers.
NilavroNill Shoovro
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