POETRY
ERE HERE WHERE?
Amusing Musings
Story #905: “POETRY”
By Leon Enriquez
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Poetry exists for everyone. Know then that a perennial spirit inhabits the deeper realms of the commonplace human experience. There will always be a certain poem that appeals to you regardless of whether you like or dislike poetry! Poetry is about the human being struggling with human nature and reconciling our warring states with the uplifting balm of word symbols and word motifs.
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As you read poetry, feel and embrace and subconsciously notice the various poetic elements that capture and highlight the emotional self — in exuberant play and sensuous frolic — as we celebrate and exult the human situation in life’s emergent moments.
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Yes, notice the fragrant touch of the emotional impulse and ever deeper joy that escalate despite the pains and sufferings that shade and counterbalance our unique life experiences.
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We read poetry — and write poetry — though good and bad, happy and sad, or even glad and mad. Poetry is a potent chemistry of a sublime allure that is oftentimes irresistible and inevitable. This is especially so for the poet!
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Whatever word string symbols that appeal to your psyche is thus a matter of personal preference and personal awareness. And thus, we enjoy our obvious indulgence with a certain measure of deep human feeling and subconscious memory. Poetry is enjoyed well before you understand and interpret meaning in the impulse of poignant word strings.
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Poetry is truly an addictive and an illuminative art form. In essence, poetry appeals to a human being because it captures succinctly the human conundrum and paradox in-between heaven and earth. We press on in spite of the toxic atmosphere that tends to choke us into abject dismay here and there!
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This is my personal expression of my poetic foray — with verse and lines, rhythm and rhyme, and poetic devices — that enhance the pleasurable way a poem makes you feel and think. Poetry is the language of the soul — where deep emotions cluster thought and feeling in a poignant outburst of fond rapture — and thus, words sublimate in sacred ecstasy as the vivid imagination conjures the art of verse craft.
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Poetry reveals the promptings of the soul. Here, words transcend mere meaning to a higher understanding in a surprise encounter. Poetry exists beyond simple language where sublime mysteries converge and hint in symbols. It is the choice of word patterns — or poetic licence — that create and expound exquisite beauty and truth within commonplace language meaning and impulse.
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Verse motifs attest to and allude to — beauty and truth with an intense vibration both surreal and real at the same time. Poetry can be said to be of the spirit-soul conversation entwined in conventional everyday language. Poetry elevates the ordinary moments with extraordinary revelations — and thus creates sublime meaning far beyond simple explanation.
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To be a poet is a certain calling: To approach and to see, to hear and to feel that extraordinary intensity hidden or even disguised in the ordinary and the mundane moments given to each person. The poet bears witness to the miracle unfolding despite the harsh reality of human encounters with unease, pain and suffering.
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Poetry can unleash a mystical experience that feels deeply profound despite the simple word choice. The poem can often exude a life of its own far beyond the intentions of the poet. This is the magic of poetry — a spirit that imbibes and inspires the written word.
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Poetry is truly a celebration of the ordinary with extraordinary glimpses of being human in a world of conflict and contradiction and change. Despite our predicament, poetry helps us navigate through the illusory world and confront beauty and truth despite our scars and blemishes and inadequacies. Poetry is an endearing art form that is often at odds with all things viable and commercial.
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Poetry expands the human consciousness with lovely trysts into the realm of stillness and silence through succinct word motifs. Here we meet our soul essence with grace and light, finesse and elegance, and embrace our humanity with acceptance and peace. And love is the way all poetry starts.
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(First Write:
Tuesday 05/ Friday 08 October 2021)
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