May 2020
O, My dear Poet,
Poems out with poems in,
For poets across globe,
Poem-web is a great inn.
O, My dear Poet,
Writing poems no sin,
Helps compose thinking,
Poem-web's a great inn.
O, O, My dear Poet,
They're rare poetry's bin,
With contests too many,
Readership not very thin.
Sad can exhale blues,
One can rekindle grin,
Finding co-sufferer helps,
Poem-web's great inn.
With moods down in heaps,
Brain as noisy as a tin,
Read out great poets' work,
Ideas to get out comes in.
Once a great poet's thoughts
Come up gently and troop in,
Angels-devils're spelled out
Sanity'll have permanent sit-in,
Poems out with poems in,
For poets across globe,
Poem-web is a great inn.
O, My dear Poet,
Writing poems no sin,
Helps compose thinking,
Poem-web's a great inn.
O, O, My dear Poet,
They're rare poetry's bin,
With contests too many,
Readership not very thin.
Sad can exhale blues,
One can rekindle grin,
Finding co-sufferer helps,
Poem-web's great inn.
With moods down in heaps,
Brain as noisy as a tin,
Read out great poets' work,
Ideas to get out comes in.
Once a great poet's thoughts
Come up gently and troop in,
Angels-devils're spelled out
Sanity'll have permanent sit-in,
PREAMBLE TO POEM
English literature is no doubt adorned by many GREATS who continue to shine bright even today. They still mold the psychology not only of English-speaking nations but other nations through translation of their works in prose or poetry. Be it developed nations or otherwise, their sway is beyond any challenge.
But there would be many more who died unheralded and unsung with some quite young. They did not have means to get their works published or to have their works spread out far and wide. Lacking networking, they naturally remained confined to their city or even few clubs or close family circles.
Fortunately, with onset of electronic revolution, one can publish poems on the web. One can get his works noticed, read and appreciated far away from their hometown. Take example of myself who lived in a state of India where people still pronounce "very" as "bhery".
Yet I could get my poems pasted on poems-web like Allpoetry and get much-required booster dose of sincere appreciation hitherto not at all hoped or imagined by me in my native place.
However, it has its own problem which can be called intellectual in nature not any technological glitze.
I had been quiet a “shy poet" writing poems in copies left unused by my daughter and then keeping them in cupboard. Barring closed family members or family friends, I never shared them with anybody else.
It was quite late when I began placing few couplets on my Facebook Account. Emboldened somewhat by responses, I joined in 30.4.2017 world-wide forum of a poetry website called allpoetry.com albeit little bit afraid and nervous of world'stage.
But I am quite happy to note today that inbox of my account in the said website reveals my overall scorecard at 30720 and ranking goes up to 110 in a readers’ population of 500000. On closer analysis I find about very small portion came from contest and bulk from commenting on others' poems which is mandatory to any entry in a contest.
This clearly meant to me the general public in fact helped me achieving a somewhat scorchy pace of scoring in 15 months.
I can not demand a better sample survey than this. Further, as the comments on my poems came from big-wig and fully established poets, my confidence as a poet went from strength to strength.
With a happy and strong mind therefore I wish to go ahead and publish my first book, Layman's Lyrics. Fortunately, Allpoetry will help me write Back-Page of the said book. Writing Forward or Back Page would be easier.
So far I had not decided to be your paid member, because I did not wish to avail bonus points that paid membership offers. I wanted to know raw or virginal value of my poems.
English literature is no doubt adorned by many GREATS who continue to shine bright even today. They still mold the psychology not only of English-speaking nations but other nations through translation of their works in prose or poetry. Be it developed nations or otherwise, their sway is beyond any challenge.
But there would be many more who died unheralded and unsung with some quite young. They did not have means to get their works published or to have their works spread out far and wide. Lacking networking, they naturally remained confined to their city or even few clubs or close family circles.
Fortunately, with onset of electronic revolution, one can publish poems on the web. One can get his works noticed, read and appreciated far away from their hometown. Take example of myself who lived in a state of India where people still pronounce "very" as "bhery".
Yet I could get my poems pasted on poems-web like Allpoetry and get much-required booster dose of sincere appreciation hitherto not at all hoped or imagined by me in my native place.
However, it has its own problem which can be called intellectual in nature not any technological glitze.
I had been quiet a “shy poet" writing poems in copies left unused by my daughter and then keeping them in cupboard. Barring closed family members or family friends, I never shared them with anybody else.
It was quite late when I began placing few couplets on my Facebook Account. Emboldened somewhat by responses, I joined in 30.4.2017 world-wide forum of a poetry website called allpoetry.com albeit little bit afraid and nervous of world'stage.
But I am quite happy to note today that inbox of my account in the said website reveals my overall scorecard at 30720 and ranking goes up to 110 in a readers’ population of 500000. On closer analysis I find about very small portion came from contest and bulk from commenting on others' poems which is mandatory to any entry in a contest.
This clearly meant to me the general public in fact helped me achieving a somewhat scorchy pace of scoring in 15 months.
I can not demand a better sample survey than this. Further, as the comments on my poems came from big-wig and fully established poets, my confidence as a poet went from strength to strength.
With a happy and strong mind therefore I wish to go ahead and publish my first book, Layman's Lyrics. Fortunately, Allpoetry will help me write Back-Page of the said book. Writing Forward or Back Page would be easier.
So far I had not decided to be your paid member, because I did not wish to avail bonus points that paid membership offers. I wanted to know raw or virginal value of my poems.
