The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.
The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language.
I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories