CELEBRATING SIXTY YEARS OF COMPOSING POETRY

It was sixty years ago when I wrote my first four lines of a poem in English. This was called The Fireplace. I was thirteen years of age and a second year student of The English School in my hometown Morphou, Cyprus.

The composition of poetry is an art where words construct sentences, verses using metaphors and symbols, which in turn are based on imagination, facts, and life experiences.

A poem does not have to rhyme and yet it can be a stanza, a canto to a loved one, an ode to a hero, a sarcastic remark to emphasise the importance of a point made, an elegy composed to explain feelings arranged as a work of art.

What prose can explain in three hundred pages, a poem (as a masterpiece) can express in one single page, with more meaning, using larger-than-life pictures describing timeless classic scenes, memorable events and bringing immortality to life itself.