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I remember, once in our my painting class we were assigned to draw something – pains anything that might catch attention. I was in a pensive mood. I felt like writing a Branches snap and make
poem, but I was in a classroom and I was supposed to complete an assignment. So I drew. I actually painted the poem that was undulating in my heart. I made a picture – a A crackling noise
portrait of a woman with closed eyes and cracks all over her face. It was the portrait of a broken woman. The background was brown depicting earth with green plants of
Mirror shatters……..with the clatter
cactus denoting stinging pain. The impression conveyed by the background and the shattered face was that of hardship she had been through in life. The moment the
But no sound comes
teacher saw it she exclaimed “oh! It's sheer poetry.”
When heart breaks
I have written many poems about my aches and pains as well as the plight of women. That portrait of the suffering woman spoke loudest about such a situation. Similarly,
while shooting a picture of a dewdrop, one may just click it as a drop of water or one may catch the slanting light which would add a glimmer to the droplet. Also, one may I posted it with a collage of broken elements. People who generally skip poems took notice and expressed appreciation. Actually many group admins on Facebook asked
make it look like a teardrop sliding down the smooth leave. Anyone who watches it would get a tender feeling of melody being seen concretely. That would make it a poem me to post my poems adorned with a pertinent painting or photo. These, too, fall short of real pictorial poetry.
– a pictorial poem. Real pictorial poetry is like body and soul together- meaning an intense soulful image, either in painting or an artistic photograph combined with a passionately emotional
I have always been fascinated by the romanticism in poetry and painting. I think every poet is a potential painter as he /she visualizes the emotion he/she wishes to poem. A black rose with dew drops on its surface kept on the threshold of a dilapidated house tells many stories. Pictorial poetry has always been there- only unobserved.
express. Similarly, every painter in his / her core is a poet for he /she feels the pathos, beauty and even the struggle the painting reveals. Michelangelo, the 15th-century Now it has come to be recognized; which is a great news. Like 'ocean in a small pot' poetry speaks volumes but an image speaks unlimited tomes. An amalgamation of
painter, and sculptor wrote sensuous and erotic poems also. He saw poetry even in marble, which he carved with superb skill. poetry and painting or photo opens many new vistas for the lovers of art and aesthetic elements. Let's welcome the invention of a great form of art.
I was a kid when I fell in love with Mahadevi Verma's poems. There were many poets of that genre (Chayavaad) whom I liked but what attracted me to Mahadevi Verma's Bio –
poetry, was her depiction of the poetic scene along with the poem. He was a Hindi poet. Her description of her lonely life, compared to the fading evening light was painted Sudha Dixit was born and brought up in UP. Graduated from AMU, did masters (English literature) from Lucknow University and studied Law at BHU. Presently settled in
as background with twilight colours. Her 'pot of miseries' is compared to a 'cloud full of water' and the same image is painted on the magazine's page. One has to see that to Bangalore. Career-wise had 15 years stint in real estate. Now . she is doing what she always wanted to do - painting landscapes and portraits & writing poetry/articles
believe it. The picture and the poem, together, would go down one's heart. On my part, frankly, I drank it, I inhaled it and I absorbed it. Her poems hold the magic, enhanced on net and various magazines, including print media
by the accompanying images.
She is not religious in the conventional sense but spiritual to the core. Cosmopolitan by style, global by attitude and gregarious by nature. She loves all forms of fine arts –
Sometimes back there was a poetry contest, called 'form poetry'. Here you have to write a short poem in the shape of its subject. I wrote about a cloud and wrote it inside music, dance, painting, craft, reading, and writing. Believes in simple living while enjoying partying with friends and living life to the full with zest, knowing that one lives
the figure of a cloud along with the line of its contour. That, too, is a kind of pictorial poetry. Another type of shape poetry had been created by Emily Romano. This, too, was only once.
called pictorial poetry. In this words are printed in slanting lines indicative of the thoughts in those lines. It must have three lines – each line with five or fewer words. It
required rhyme somewhere – either at the end or inside. A typical example is: -
See and rippling

How how like
The the waves
Roof sunlight along

Slopes follow hollows
I mentioned these examples of these 'form' or 'shape poetry' because they are also called my pictorial poetry. But real pictorial poetry, in my opinion, is different from these
technicalities. It's more visual and even sensuous. One of my poems is titled “The Wounded Silence”
Leaves crushed under the feet

Groans in crunching voice

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