Poetry is an
art of listening. A habit that can be inculcated only by a mind that is
receptive and open. The hymn, the
metrical composition and the rhythm is given by the pulse of the feelings
through which we choose to see or hear the situation. Poets know how to listen.
Poets listen to themselves. They listen to
objects around them, to situations, events, happenings, feelings and at times
get an intuitive insight complicates the intense weave between the Truth and
the Perceived “reality” of this world. This
Art of Listening gets translated through the Self in the poet and is expressed
as a Poem.
Poetry
becomes an art at the point where listeners generate their own individual
response to the verse. The experience of the poet, illustrated in the rhyme of
words and language may be entirely different from the visions inculcated in the
reader.
Writing
poetry cleans the soul. The personality
benefits from “the readiness to listen”, “the ability to synergise the
experience with the Self” and finally “the strength to bind it in an expression”. This is almost like BREATHING, where in a
poet/writer is imbibing, exchanging/benefiting and exhaling. The oxygen is
absorbed by the soul of the poet. As a person who benefited from this aspect of
writing and learning I can vouch for the amount of Healing I feel after writing
or even after reading poetry.
Like in
life, in poetry too, it is not always important to be correct or to understand
poetry or a verse correctly, because there is a complete Spectrum of Colours
and Feelings that needs to be understood to enrich the experience of life. For
us Be-lagams, life is to be seen as a poet, in all its colours- by the day,
rather than as in Truth or False ( Black or White) by the night.
(Be-lagam
definition of Poetry)
