ankahi.. “Voice of heart”

Ik ankahi si, ansunni si
baat chhuppi hai Dil mein…
Zinda hun kisliye,
Dard badha rahi hai ik aag si
Dooriaan yeh faasle kisliye
Zindagi ho rahi hai kiyun weeraan si
Kiyun yeh gham ab, ashkon mein beh nahin jaate
Har shaam ho rahi hai kiyun ghamgeen si
Andhera phel raha hai har sim’t kisliye
Roshan kirnein kiyun ho rahi hain maddham si
Ro raha mann, kho raha hai har lamha kisliye
Muskurahat kiyun ho rahi hai honthon se juda si..

By Mehek.

Introduction

What is poetry? A short piece of imaginative writing, of a personal nature and laid out in lines is the usual answer. Will that do?

Poetry definitions are difficult, as is aesthetics generally. What is distinctive and important tends to evade the qualified language in which we attempt to cover all considerations. Perhaps we could say that poetry was a responsible attempt to understand the world in human terms through literary composition.

The terms beg many questions, of course, but poetry today is commonly an amalgam of three distinct viewpoints. Traditionalist argue that a poem is an expression of a vision that is rendered in a form intelligible and pleasurable to others and so likely to arouse kindred emotions. For Modernists, a poem is an autonomous object that may or may not represent the real world but is created in language made distinctive by its complex web of references. Postmodernists look on on poems as collages of current idioms that are intriguing but self-contained — they employ, challenge and/or mock preconceptions, but refer to nothing beyond themselves.

Any poem that can be completely understood or paraphrased is not a poem, therefore, but simply versified or emotive prose (though not the worse for that).

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