POETRY : THE WAY TO KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDING THE SOUL
Cvija
Peranović Kojić
Poetry is a type of art
that uses all means of linguistic expression. It is a type of literature
written in prose or verses, and it creates a strong emotional charge when the
words vibrate meaningfully and significantly and enter timelessness. It does not
follow existing rules and breaks shackles, and often also old knowledge changes
to new ones.
Deep feelings are woven
into the poetry, which testify to the poet's impression and experience of the
world with spirit, mind and body. It leaves the stamp of a time period of life
and understanding of it. Poetry is a sign in time and lasts in timelessness.
Lived poetic experiences, understanding of the essence of life, and even more,
are woven into the verses. Through poetic expression, one gets out of the
limitations into the infinite possibilities of combining love and suffering,
life and death, everything compatible and incompatible. Poetry is a divine
creation of creativity, moment and eternity, created by mental-emotional charge
in its own truth and in special moments of inspiration and bliss. Rhythmically
created, colored by the magic of cognition, and expressed by the beauty of
words, it speaks the true language of our self, combines and discloses the
past, the present, and foreshadows the future. By knowing the secrets, it names
the invisible sides of life, thoughts and feelings.
Through the inspiring
creation of poetry, the poet exposes and communicates his spiritual state,
emotions and thoughts in a special and unique way and publishes it to a wide
public, who, finding himself and his life in these same verses, revises and he
becomes aware of his own condition. That's why we can say that poetry heals or
heals the human soul, both for the poet-creator and for those who read it, love
and live the poetic creation of life.
Poetry, although
separated from psychology and philosophy, is closely related and we can say
that they connect and separate again with different aspects of life, searching
for personal answers to the questions: Who am I? What am I? Where do I belong?
Why do I feel the way I do - misunderstood, different? At the same time, it is
a longing to discover the higher purpose of life and to understand the
previously incomprehensible. Devoting himself to psychology and philosophy, the
writer discovers that he has already found the answers and described them in
his verses before he even became aware of their meaning, so the question arises
as to who controls our thoughts in moments of inspiration and creation of
poetry if the answers themselves lie within us. Psychology and philosophy are
signs for the poet that illuminate and facilitate his path, and creative
thoughts, written in the lines of poetry, are symbols of connection and unity
with the Creator himself. A poet is poetry, and poetry creates, builds and
shapes its author, makes him aware, unconsciously plunges into his deepest
being and emerges through the pictorial expression of poetic thought,
presenting and predicting the journey of our soul that is yet to come. Knowing
where we came to this planet Earth of ours, why we are where we are, we observe
our purpose and where we are going after this present life?
To be an aware and
enlightened poet, to know or be able to describe or express one's own knowledge
in the right way, vividly, poetically, is the magic of life, known only to the
chosen ones.