Human beings are born when words are born.

Roberto Piperno (Italy, Rome)

Human beings are born when words are born. The evident difference between human beings and other living beings is the word, which circulates inside each one of us and between all of us. It is not just a matter of communication, but also a way to get deeper in understanding the unknown knowledge inside and outside ourselves. So words are the supreme power of human people and help them to develop their brains and souls in all directions.

The visualisation of  the sounds of our mouth in written alphabet made a definitive change and each letter acquired a still unknown, but already existing, unexplored value. Writing was not just a step to facilitate the permanence and the communication of knowledge, but an unexplored way to visualise a deeper permanent life. Writing developed and increased also the already existing poetry.

Poetry is words combined  in such a way to move and sound inside ourselves over the time, over the space. Poetry is a combination of dream and reason  and it touches unknown and known parts of us. Metaphors are essential part of poetic communication and the reader may catch the hidden meanings of what it is said. That’s why the poet is creating something which did not exist before: a deeper understanding and interpretation of life, nature, past and present. It is not easy to create true poetry because it moves outside and inside reality and it makes us understand and feel something which was deeply hidden.

In poetry words reach the highest tension because they express universal human feelings in relation to other human beings, to nature, to social reality. When words are combined mysteriously in a meaningful way, they remain over the centuries, over the spoken language. We still read poems which were written thousands of years ago in vanished languages; but even in translation they reach us and make us discover and understand feelings, ideas, knowledge which would be disappeared otherwise. Poetry is discovering a permanent present: therefore poetry expresses the reality and the deep feeling of anyone in any time. When writing becomes poetry, it is written for ever. Even very ancient poetry belongs to present time: the poetic parts either of the Bible or of the Mahabharata and the poems by Homer.

In present civilisation most people know how to read and to write and an increasing number of them  tries to write poetry, but of course only a few are able to combine knowledge, imagination and creative ability in order to write poems which will become universal in space and time. Now Internet helps us to find quickly other people’s poems from all over the world and to develop knowledge in much shorter time. But we must not have illusions: many more people try to be poets, but very few will succeed, because poetry is not easy at all and nobody can teach somebody else to write poetry. Many people try to write poems, but most of them  are satisfying their need of poetry repeating, with little changes, something that has been already written. Of course nothing wrong with writing poems, because it helps many people to develop  a better understanding of poetry, even if it does not necessarily give life to new poets: true creativity is rare.

Personally I have been in love with poetry since I was a teenager, when I read a short poem, “I Limoni” by Eugenio Montale, one of the most important Italian last century poets. Then I understood that poets could make me see and feel what I could not see and feel otherwise. And that’s why I am trying to write poetry and to be a poet: to discover what I can see and hear combining words, making metaphors and allegories, giving them a rhythmic movement, which sounds deeper in my mind, in my soul.

There are periods when the vision is blind and it is impossible to write. And suddenly energy arises for unknown reasons from unknown parts of my soul and then I write. But I never write just for myself, because it is also essential for me to share my discoveries with other people: to communicate and establish a positive and intense contact with them. Krithya has a deep understanding of this essential need of communicating by poetry and I write also for Krithya.