History Of Poetry Poetry as an art form predates written text. The earliest poetry is believed to have been recited or sung, employed as a way of remembering oral history, genealogy, and law. Poetry is often closely related to musical traditions, and the earliest poetry exists in the form of hymns (such as the work...
Metre (Poetry) In poetry, metre (British) or meter (American; see spelling differences) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse metre, or a certain set of metres alternating in a particular order. The study and the actual use of metres and...
Poetry From A Humble Perspective Poetry is the voice, wording, and expression of the truth and essence of humankind, their love, excitement, trouble, grief, and joys, the expression of their sensing and evaluation of existence and the beyond, through the tongue of feelings and emotions in an open or hidden...
Veneration Of Mary In The Catholic Church The veneration of Mary in the Catholic Church encompasses various Marian devotions which include prayer, pious acts, visual arts, poetry, and music devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Popes have encouraged it, while also taking steps to reform some manifestations of it. The Holy See has insisted on the importance...
Be Thankful These inspirational poems for thankfulness teach us about no matter what life brings for you, always stay positive and be thankful towards life. Gratitude, thankfulness, or gratefulness, from the Latin word gratus ‘pleasing, thankful’, is a feeling of appreciation felt by and/or similar positive response shown by the recipient...
What Is Poetry? Poetry is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning. Poetry has a very long history, dating back to prehistorical times with the creation of...
Young Man Young man, Give some thought to the terrible maladies, now a century old, that afflict this society on every side. There is no remedy known for such fainting hearts and feverish minds: crowds in the street shouting for no reason; people, become like fish in the aquarium, Blundering...
Proof Of Divine Unity This poem is a testimonial for the proof of Divine Unity. With whatever is in it, the universe is a supreme proof; with its tongues of the unseen and manifest worlds, it declares God’s Unity and glorifies Him. Announcing the Unity of the All-Merciful, it continuously...
Two Tables Were Imparted To My Heart ‘Two Tables Were Imparted To My Heart’ compares the existence of good and evil in this world. (NOTE: About 25 years ago on Yusa Tepesi in Beykoz, Istanbul, when I had decided to renounce the world, several important friends came to call me...
A Ray From The Manifestation Of The Divine Name The All-Wise The poem, A Ray From The Manifestation Of The Divine Name The All-Wise, is a reflection on God’s creation, knowledge, and greatness. In His Name, glory be to Him. Dear Brothers, I am now in my hut a tall...
Homesickness This spiritual poem, “Homesickness“, is written by M. Fethullah Gulen. For man this world is like a foreign land, a fearful ocean, where he flounders a whole lifetime among waves of anxiety. At every step and every station, he expects a dawn of hope to break; Morning begins with...
Never Worn Out An eternal ‘textile’ woven with silk threads, pure as rain, cool as the shade of clouds; its colour and design address all the worlds, unstained white like the river of milk in Paradise… Not a transient hope, but peace everlasting, from which begin all roads leading souls...
The Pure Path “The Pure Path” is written by M. Fethullah Gulen. One night I had a vision of the future so bright; there was a peaceful silence and was pouring light upon light. Things were being done with the precision of clockwork; centuries-old confusions disappeared one after the other....
The Door Half-Opened Through Death This poem is about old age and death. What imaginations those coming to this world nourish! Imaginations as sweet as the joy felt at religious festivals! And yet the first step taken into the world is also the first step those who have come to...
The Rose Of My Heart ‘The Rose of My Heart‘ is about the love of prophet Muhammad written by M. Fethullah Gulen. As I mentioned you again, nothing else remained in my memory; I imagined you traveling on the hills of my heart. A mirage, I know, but it sufficed...
Tears Tears are poetry whose words are written in drops, expressing joy and grief, hope and despair. When consumed with pangs of separation, melting like candle, man breathes in tears and speaks in tears. A time comes when man rejoices child-like with tears of joy, as he sees dawn begin...
In the Bright Climate of Belief This spiritual poem, “In The Bright Climate of Belief”, is written by M. Fethullah Gulen. Absence of belief is like absence of light, a dark night never relieved; it snares the unbeliever in a wild solitude, wretched in spirit, facing a stride away the...
The Horizon Of the Spirit “The Horizon of The Spirit” is about the death and the afterlife written by M. fethullah Gulen. When it is dark, souls busy themselves with afterlife, on the horizon nights appear to meet with Beloved. Negative and positive poles join at the same point from...
Fall This spiritual poem, “Fall”, is written by M. Fethullah Gulen. A faded adventure experienced with weary eyes. Sound of leaves, beating in the ear with the force of strong, cold winds: A music of fall… The roses of poetical spring weep everywhere; Colors are plaintive. Nightingales in quiet lands...