Thursday 11 August 2011

I AM A POEM





A poem educates and exposes us to ourselves and the world around us. In our personal encounter with challenges, is the experience of the larger society. When we cry the world cries; like crickets would join themselves in the sonorous songs of the moonlight. An essential part of reading and writing poetry is not only does it attempt to construe or define the “I” but fortifies it as an integral part of the world. We fetch these thoughts from the same source irrespective of location, space, race, age or intellectual denomination.
The process of engaging a poem attaches us to the greater and precious aspect of ourselves, to all that is whole, good and beautiful. Thus we realized ourselves as unique and vital; part of all that exist. We see that we are not alone and can’t be divided but only to remain strengthened in our stretching mind, esteem and thoughts.
The will is a stronger energy that multiply itself against it host. And that’s why when a poem is able to knock a cliff, it brings down the whole building like a falling pack of cards.  Without hesitating, write the lines and say the words, there your poem is born.
The “I” is the bowl of our creativity and freedom. It is the pronoun that stands for your capacity-the personality of your individuality. The “I’ is your poem. It is your story: the terrifying secret that’s been unleashed out of you to give way for hope to come. It is the reason why you want to live and stay alive amidst the incessant surgery you’ve had. It is the only companion you have when closest kin molest your tender under-age feminity.
When civilized diseases cripple your limbs and you cannot even find tears to help you cry, your poem can save you. Turn a fresh leaf, and paint your story, your will definitely find you to the greater world that writes with you in poetry.
 ©Uche Uwadinachi 


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