Poetry: The Inseparable Companion of The Humanity
Poetry: The Inseparable
Companion of The Humanity
By Ataol Behramoglu
When I was a child of five-six years old, playing with the words was enjoying me.
In that time the voices of them, the harmony between the words interesting me more than their meanings.
And also it was that period of childhood that the music entered to my life.
I liked to sing.
But they were not the children songs that I was singing.
They were the songs of the adults which subjects were on love and nostalgia.
Probably during that time I should feel the relation between the voices of words and of their meanings.
The other companions of those years were the beauties and magic of the nature and my loneliness.
I was also not unaware of the feeling of love.
Another profound sentiment that I remember from those years is my pain and anger against the injustice.
Today, at this moment, even after more than a half century, I keep my faithfulness to that child.
This is, at the same time, my faithfulness to the poetry too.
All modes should pass leaving their places to the others.
The poetry itself also should be changed by the time that passes over.
But I believe that the real poetry , as the childhood, is unique and eternal.
As far as the humanity not totally broken down loosing its essential values, it will continuously feel a nostalgia for a lost past and a vague yet, uncertain, but
earnestly desirable future.
And the feeling of justice will also continue to keep its existence..
While these feelings will survive, the poetry also will exist as an inseparable companion of the humankind during its eternal and dramatic adventure.
March 19th, 2011
