Poetry from the Famous and Unknown

There's a list of some poems to the left

We are glad to see you here. This site is dedicated to poetry and to the people who make poetry possible, but not just poetry in the spoken word as there are christmas carols and nursery rhymes too. there are little oddments as well:

A mind Teaser | This is in English

Only Great Minds Can Read This

This is weird, but interesting!
fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

I cdnuol't blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at
Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are,
the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the
rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it
whotuit a pboerlm.. Tihs is bcusese the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey
lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh?
yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
If you can raed tihs tlel a fienrd

I have put the words spelled correctly on the Brain Teaser page

A Memory Poem of One's Gone

This is without a doubt one of the coolest PC-Illusion, I have seen so far.
Follow the instructions:
1) Relax and concentrate on the 4 small dots in the middle of the picture for about 30 - 40 seconds.
2) Then, take a look at a wall near you ( any smooth, single colored surface)
3) You will see a circle of light developing ( start blinking )
4) What do you see? Moreover, who do you see? (please leave a comment above in the facebook comment box to let us know?)

Poetry has a long history

Dating back to the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, (somewhere between 2750 and 2500 BCE). the earliest poems evolved from folk songs, such as the Chinese Shijing, or from the need to retell oral epics, the Homeric epics, the Odyssey and the Iliad. Ancient attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric, drama, song, and comedy. Later attempts concentrated on features such as repetition, verse form and rhyme, and emphasized the aesthetics which distinguish poetry from more objectively informative, prosaic forms of writing, such as manifestos, biographies, essays, and novels. From the mid-20th century, poetry has sometimes been more generally labeled as a fundamental creative act using language.

Poetry primarily is governed by idiosyncratic forms and conventions to suggest differential interpretation to words, or to evoke emotive responses. Devices such as assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and rhythm are sometimes used to achieve musical or incantatory effects. The use of ambiguity, symbolism, irony, and other stylistic elements of poetic diction often leaves a poem open to multiple interpretations. Similarly, metaphor, simile, and metonymy create a resonance between otherwise disparate images—a layering of meanings, forming connections previously not perceived. Kindred forms of resonance may exist, between individual verses, in their patterns of rhyme or rhythm.

Some poetry types are specific to particular cultures and genres, responding to the characteristics of the language in which the poet writes. Readers accustomed to identifying poetry with

• Dante,
• Goethe,
• Mickiewicz
• Rumi

may think of it as being written in lines based upon rhyme and regular meter, there are traditions, such as Biblical poetry, that use other methodologies to create rhythm and euphony. Much of modern British and American poetry is to some extent a critique of poetic tradition, playing with and testing (among other things) the principle of euphony itself, to the extent that sometimes it deliberately does not rhyme or keep to set rhythms at all. In today's globalized world poets often borrow styles, techniques and forms from diverse cultures and languages.