One might wonder why anyone in this day and age of electronics
would feel a need to write poetry. There is a simple answer. No
better way exists to express insightful feelings than by putting it
in poetry form. Who remembers endless prose? Few do. Capturing
insight in the form of a poem has a powerful impact unlike reams of
prosaic writing. Any one who doubts this point should read T.S.
Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock or Gerontion. Old men
reading these Eliot poems understand fully the enigmas of growing
old in a younger world. Poetry gives lasting power to conveying the
spirit of the day. All poets write about things that relate to
their culture and times. My collection of poems is about times from
WWII to present times. By comparison Bret Harte wrote poems about
the Civil War days because that was the major event of his times.
Harte could not have written about our times in a meaningful way.
But if anyone really desires to feel the spirit of the Civil War
days then they should read Harte's poetry. You will feel like you
are living the Civil War days by reading Harte's poetry. His
capturing of those times is unforgettable when in the form of
poetry. The book offered is appropriately titled: Poetry Lives
Forever. The first poem serves as an introduction to the book and
is also titled identically. In the introductory poem I give insight
into why I believe poetry has a lasting way of conveying spirit of
current times and will have infinite value long after time runs out
and mankind perishes. One hundred years from now, if this
collection is read, I know that those who read and recite the poems
will get a sense of the true feeling for the spirit of the culture
of our day. There is one last important point to mention. The poems
are presented in random order for good reason. The random
unpredictable order forces each poem to be quite different than the
previous one. It is hoped that the reader will develop an
anticipation of a pleasant surprise coming in the content of the
next poem. Grouping poems by similarity of content would surely
bore anyone with intelligence. No one should ever be bored by
things being too organized.
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