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Our Silver Jubilee Binder- II



                                                                                                                                                                                       We feel proud to see the second edition of our silver jubilee
                                                                                                                                                                                       publication, Gems -II in your hands. We are thankful to all dear
                                                                                                                                                                                       poets, readers, models and artists who have been participating in
                                                                                                                                                                                       our projects on different themes but one concept of pictorial
                                                                                                                     “All of us                                                        poetry/prose/fiction. They have made our works beautiful and
                                                                                                                                                                                       enjoyed the grace of their pictorial poetry compositions. This
                                                                                                                                                                                       concept of pictorial poetry has totally changed the shape and
                                                                                                                     do not have                                                       definition of poetry. Earlier the poetry books were kept in racks of
                                                                                                                                                                                       Libraries but pictorial poetry anthologies have come out to be on
                                                                                                                                                                                       the  coffee  tables.  Now  they  have  reached  to  hotels  rooms,
                                                                                                                                                                                       restaurants, public libraries, meeting places and so many other
                                                                                                                     equal talent.                                                     venues. This concept has widened its scope with which we can
                                                                                                                                                                                       organize pictorial poetry exhibition. Last year we happened to
                                                                                                                                                                                       launch  a  pictorial  poetry  exhibition  first  in  the  world  at
                                                                                                                                                                                       Kathmandu, Nepal from 20th to 27th April 2019. It was highly
                                                                                                                     But,                                                              successful and achieved "Golden Book of World Records".
                                                                                                                                                                                       Our  Gems  project  is  being  published  and  launched  by  our
                                                                                                                                                                                       international group, World Pictorial Poetry & Art Forum © and
                                                                                                                                                                                       its 33 branches in the world. We have put our sincere efforts to
                                                                                                                     all of us                                                         make a smart compilation of art and poetry where in 86 poems
                                                                                                                                                                                       from 47 fellow poets along with their pictures and biodata and 96
                                                                                                                                                                                       Illustrative  Pictures  are  involved.  These  pictures  have  been
                                                                                                                                                                                       downloaded from Pixabay.com, pexel.com and are of our eve
                                                                                                                     have an equal                                                     models.  We  are  thankful  to  picture  download  sites  and  our
                                                                                                                                                                                       models with which we could make a beautiful pictorial poetry
                                                                                                                                                                                       binder.
                                                                                                                                                                                       Once again, we repeat our words on a universal truth that reads,
                                                                                                                     opportunity                                                       words, lines and poems do". In our opinion this combination of
                                                                                                                                                                                       "Pictures, Sometimes though being silent speak much more than
                                                                                                                                                                                       pictorial poetry works as if they were soul and a body. While going
                                                                                                                                                                                       through the history of pictoria poesy or pictorial poetry it has
                                                                                                                                                                                       been found that the "poet is an artist first." Also it has been
                                                                                                                     to develop                                                        meaning  "as  is  painting  so  is  poetry".  Some  centuries  ago,
                                                                                                                                                                                       described  that  ''Ut  pictura  poesis"  is  a  Latin  phrase,  literally
                                                                                                                                                                                       Simonides of Keos (c. 556- 468 BC) had stated, ''Poem a pictura
                                                                                                                                                                                       loquens & pictura poema silens," which translates into English as
                                                                                                                     our talents."                                                     "Poetry is a speaking picture & painting is a silent poetry." It will
                                                                                                                                                                                       not a wrong statement if we say, ''Poet is an artist of words, of
                                                                                                                                                                                       feelings  and  of  thoughts  who  paints  in  one's  heart;  Without
                                                                                                                                                                                       making it cry, without letting it bleed. Here we are of the opinion
                                                                                                                                                                                       that Poem is a feel framed in thoughtful words.
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                                                                                                                              ...A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
                                                                                                                           (Former President of India)



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                                                                                                                                                                                       Dr. K.C. Sethi                     +91 9427851923
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