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Musings of Poets on
Poetry
 Fide Erken
Fide Erken is a Turkish poet. She was born in Bursa in 1967. She is a graduate of the English department of the Uludag
University and she's is an English teacher in Bursa. Fide Erken says that poetry is in people's nature and that she
was first tempted by this emotional current in primary school. She recieved two awards in poetry competitions when she was in high school. Some of her poems were first published in "Öner" art magazine and in a local newspaper journal in Turkey, in some internet sites and magazines.
They Called Me
To The Country of Poetry
Late,
One evening
They called me
To the Country of Poetry.
They said,
"Come quickly!"
If not,
"No tickets will remain."
The streets of the Country of Poetry
Have flowers on the pavements.
They smell
So distinctively.
Travellers pass along the streets.
They disappear,
Leaving something scribbled on a scrap of paper...
Some odd writings.
Some people read them
Others throw them away.
But they are inexhaustible
Those odd scribblings.
Travellers come
To the Country of Poetry.
And sometimes are unable to procure
A return ticket.
They drift along
The narrow streets
And pick up flowers
With unusual formations.
Tonight,
There's a free
Ticket available.
A one-way ticket.
I salute the ones who stay
In the Country of Poetry,
For it's the county of
The lonely, poor and peculiar.
Unfortunately,
It's not possible for you
To enter...
Unless you really are a poet.
Ananya.S.Guha
The Poem Is History
As old as man himself
Tattooed,snarling,clawing raw meat
Write the poem in submerging darkness
In the all pervasive decay
By all means, write the poem
Write the poem
Remember the poem is reprisal
Remember the poem is coarse, vulgar
Angry at times, foretelling terrible dreams
The poem after all, is a ringing celebration.
Wayne
Poetry, for me, these days, is a discipline. A way to understand and express
that which needs to be reckoned with. And that which falls outside my
grasp. It is a sounding forth of thought and image. It is dependent on a
wakened silence and subservient to it.
Christina Pacosz
"Poetry is a way to remain sane in an increasingly difficult world."
Linda Benninghoff
I read poetry because I feel it is a door into something spiritual--or my inner self--which I don't have access to in any other way
Luke Buckham
I read poetry to keep my mind and soul from going to sleep. Reading poetry gives me a heightened (truer) sense of reality, and the world begins to turn grey if I don't read it frequently. I write poetry because I have an irresistable compulsion to create something and have very few other talents. I put out my own cheaply-produced poetry mag, THE INAPPROPRIATE, several times a year, because I want to have an intimate connection with my environment, my community, and making a free poetry magazine available and visible in the area is important to me.
Margie (mtc) Cronin
'I write poetry because i enjoy it or at least it doesn't distress me though it is perhaps against my better
judgement!'.
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