Poetry Poems

You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it--it's the
only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks
your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually
drunk.
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Dis poetry is like a riddim dat drops
De tongue fires a riddim dat shoots like shots
Dis poetry is designed fe rantin
Dance hall style, big mouth chanting,
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Some -
thus not all. Not even the majority of all but the minority.
Not counting schools, where one has to,
and the poets themselves,
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Poetic Masterpiece: A Childbirth Of Profundity.
Like delivery of Divine Revelations 
which favours calmness of wilderness;  
It's brought forth in Creative-Glory-Of-Solitude:
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The unknown singing bird sang
Several songs for some years;
The songs of the singing bird
Soon created news and history!
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~ GREETINGS OF HOLY HOLI ~
MS. NIVEDITA
UK
18 February 2010
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Poets, come out of your closets,
Open your windows, open your doors,
You have been holed-up too long
in your closed worlds.
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I have always aspired to a more spacious form
that would be free from the claims of poetry or prose
and would let us understand each other without exposing
the author or reader to sublime agonies.
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Poetry is sexy
Its lyrics aim to please
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The first poem was a wonder
The second was a surprise.
The third poem made me a poet,
The fourth gave me a name and fame.
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A lilac for the anonymity,
Of Mrs. Hinkle's simple poetry.
It shines within the margins of its space,
A single note of captivating grace.
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« What is Poetry? »
Heavens no! Don’t ask me;
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There was a man I knew
and just knowing him
made me think of poetry.
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The poetry of earth is never dead:
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;
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Everything I see
Is poetry to me
From the last standing tree
In a lonely forest
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Introduction: We don't really think deep enough about 'What A Poetry Actually Is', the obvious question which we all know but don't think how to really elaborate on. We mostly see the story, depth and the purpose it delivers. Well, here's one a little bit different this time...
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Where speech fails, poetry takes over.
As if like a fetus in the womb, a poem
Is born in the brain's chamber, where
It sleeps and sometimes moves about
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Poetry is
An emotional Rhapsody
Igniting the contemplative mind
Pouring out words in exuberance
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Religions are poems. They concert
our daylight and dreaming mind, our
emotions, instinct, breath and native gesture
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NOTE: I'm sorry to say today I find PH like before [as in case of 'I Want To Be Raped'] again banned this poem as I find it is not in my poetry list...so I've made some typographical change and reposted it and some comments already posted by Hon'ble Readers I'm posting here ~ niv
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.poetry is poetry without names attached a born free spirit poetry is poetry.
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(1) rethinking contexts on roots of poetry after contemporary poetry in 21st century's culture and the arts zone
(2) poetry of critical consideration upon aesthetic understanding in universality of human suffering process and the end of suffering in an abstract alphabet.
(3) a notebook of truth-aesthetics and truth-neuroaesthetic understanding in universal truths of the being and the post-being in anthropocenic breaths.
(4) apocalytic and postapocalytic poems, stories, fables, movies, novels, folk lores and humanity in wisdom of resilience are researched and explored.
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poetry waits for me
poetry ever faithful waits for me
poetry never forsakes me
poetry never abandons me
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What is poetry? Poetry is dhvani, vani, akshara. Poetry is emotions and feelings. Poetry is the albhabet of literature. Poetry is songs. Poetry is dances. Poetry is terracotta temples and their replicas in art.

Poetry is the language of the heart. Poetry is a song of the heart. Poetry is the language of love. Poetry is dreams.
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humanity inside poetry outside post-humanity futurism inside poetry outside postfuturism postmodernity inside poetry outside. modernity classicism inside poetry outside tradirionalism.
poetry inside spiral desire machine outside rollercoaster's being in time.
poms are smiling at poets.
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poems inside 50th street, Yangon outside blocks of darkness and light.
token of poetic lincence for multiverse voyage plus issued by poetry of conscience gone through darkbage of anthropocenic map.
white nights inside poetry outside unbearable likeness of being in poems of nowness.
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The Making of a Poet
by Michael R. Burch

While I don't consider "Poetry" to be my best poem—I wrote the first version in my teens—it's a poem that holds special meaning for me. I call it my ars poetica. Here's how it came about...
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Is Bob Dylan a poet or a songwriter? Is he a guitarist or a songwriter or a singer or both? Who is Bob Dylan? A singer or a songwriter or a guitarist or a music composer? Who is, who is he?

A poet or a songwriter? Who, who is this Dylan? Can his songsbe called poems? Is poetry songwriting? Is poetry song and music, a combination of it? Is he a music-maker, a word-maker?
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It is surprising that the western literature was for centuries ignorant about the poetics of Aristotle, as L.J.Potts observes in his introduction to the translation of poetics. It is therefore not surprising that the West was not interested for long stretches of time after the days of Greece and Rome, on this discipline of literature called POETICS-

I was keen for years in gathering knowledge about the endeavours of different peoples of antiquity who developed old civilisations, in regard to the development of a science on POETRY and literature. Though I came across the fragmentary efforts of the Chinese people on the question of the causes of poetry, even before the Tang period, (for example Lu Chi's ‘Wen Fu' in the 3rd century A.D.) . There was no systematic evolution of a scientific work on the subject. May be my information is inadequate. However when I scanned across the Middle East on the corresponding periods and earlier, there was no evidence of any similar effort either in the Babylonian or Sumerian civilisations or the Egyptian. Perhaps much of the evidence of those periods has been lost irrevocably, leaving a vacuum up to the early period of Arab literature. The vacuum is amazingly, not confined to literature only but extends over the whole range of human thought, which means that the great civilisations of the middle east right up to the days of the fall of the Persian Empire and the Greek civilisation of the areas, have either sustained a serious loss of knowledge or did not produced such knowledge at all. However, it is quite reasonable to guess that in these areas in the periods corresponding to those of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle and Aristorchus and so on which is between the 5th and 2nd centuries
B.C., there should have flourished great knowledge in different fields and this body of knowledge could not have been any the less than what was witnessed in Greece and Rome in those periods. All historical accounts of those areas and around remaining today, indicate at this. And when I take into the range of my vision the entire land between Greece and china, my mind tells me that during those periods of antiquity when great civilisations flourished simultaneously, there must have been large intercourse of peoples and thoughts across their frontiers and human knowledge might have been evolved by mutual exchange of thoughts and influences. In the event of this probability, it may nt be correct to say that a certain branch of knowledge was developed in this country and was not in the other, and so on. I am inclined to presume that knowledge in those periods would have acquired the form of a long-chain of thought-influences across all these countries, as is witnessed also in our own times. If some of these countries show gaps today it is right that we should only infer that they lost that knowledge due to serious historical cataclysms but not that they did not develop those faculties at all.
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POETICS: EAST AND WEST
Origins and evolution of poetics the World Over

Although poetry appeared in many countries of the world from times immemorial, it was only in India that an enquiry started on the questions as to what is poetry, how it could be treated, and why it should be written. In the wake of this enquiry, a large body of scientific knowledge regarding the mechanics of poetry and its purpose developed and began expanding through the centuries. We have a plethora of evidence about this in the Vedic literature, Ramyana and Mahabharata. I don't wish to go into all that here. I shall only give one instance from Mahabharata (chapter 207 of Rajya lambha parva)Narada is described as "Paribhushaitaa vaachaam varnatah sarvatorthatah". It means Narada is also a poet. In those days, evidently, according to the scientists of poetry, a poet is one who adorned the word letter-wise and meaning-wise (i.e. word-beauty and sense-beauty) . These words remind us of the great Bhamaha of the later period and his theory of Alankara. Those books of poetics are not available to us today. However from the Natyasastra of Bharata onwards, all the literature on poetics in not only available but also remains intact with a tradition of being read by scholars and taught to the students of literature (in Sanskrit) .
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