Celebrating Word Poetry Day

In 1999, UNESCO designated March 21^st as Word Poetry Day. 

Although “All the words are not enough to get anything said” (Yiannis Ritsos), poetry uses words to create beauty.

     “Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”  (Edgar Allan Poe)

Poetry can be everything and everywhere.

     “To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry,

     though never in a Book it lie –

     True Poems flee – ”  (Emily Dickinson)

Poetry comes from the soul. It invites both the poet and the reader to look into their souls.

     “And a soul

     if it is to know itself

     must look

     into its own soul:

     the stranger and enemy, we’ve seen him in the mirror.”  (George Seferis)

 And then, it may lead to something higher. 

     “But you must know that only he 

     who fights the darkness within will the day after tomorrow have his

     own share in the sun.”  (Odysseus Elytis)