What is poetry to me?
Poetry seems to be a word already so high-handed, posh, inaccessible. Yet, it is a literary form popular, that you can find in many forms in every culture. Poetry is recited from generations to generations, written and published (or not), and even sang. We have poetry everyday of our lives without knowing it. A proverb is for me a form of poetry.
Poetry is a picture of your moment in life, like a photography. We may have been taught poetry in a very wrong way, very academically without feeling the essence of the authors we studied. And then, we just stopped reading poetry as soon as we left school. Just like we stopped drawing, playing, singing for fun, any craft that we may have practised regularly has been transformed into a scholarly chore.
Mind you, i love academics, i learn skills, techniques, a great amount of knowledge. But sometimes it felt like killing the idea in the process of flourishment.
Let's take one minute in our life to read poetry. A haiku, a sonnet, a muwashah. To bring a bit of a beauty in our daily routine.
