world of poetry is infinite
kvakutty

a good one
I loved the question

why should this be written
the overall thought procees started working 

I remember  in earlier days when people appreciated poets
and if you said you are a poe t
that was the more than enough
 now I i tell someone I write poetry
they will reply " thats okay. but what do you do for earning"

good one sir

Raj Sir!
Thsi is really nice! why do we write????? lovely thought process going thr my head hehe:))
Cheers
ME

When Jallaludin Rumi met his master, Shams Tabriz, he was standing in front of a fountain reading a book.  Rumi was immediately struck by his presence.  Tabriz took Rumi's book and threw it into the fountain and said, "What good is all your book learning?"  Still, in time, Rumi went on to write poem after poem and we still read them today.  Nevertheless, Tabriz was right, and you are right, too.

Love,

Harry

i enjoyed readin ur thoughts Raj Sir... as much as enjoyed readin the comments here.. n yes.. write..wat comes from within.. tatzzz d sole purpose,,, i guess.... u said it rightly here in d comment section.. :-)

rgds
Bhavna

Dear Sampath
Yes, Sampath - a poem is a happening in the depths of our being.

If you have the time, do read the dialogue in this comments page with Raghuram and the others and also read Dr Madhavi's and womanslove's poems at their respective sites. I've provided the link to their response poems at the end of my poem  on writing a poem....

I'l lbe away from 1Jul-end Jul. Take care and see you soon. 

daer raj
the soul expressess for itself....
not for the other...
a kindred soul is attracted to it for itself and not for the other ..
 so the articulated poem in on becomes ....the unarticulated poem of  the other who reads the peom...there is a resonance..
so the poem gets read.....

Raj..here is the link to in response to this blog.

http://poemsoflife.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/06/what-and-why-i-write.htm

Raghuram
It is good of you to visit this blog, which is quite significant to me. Do read, if you have the time, the dialogue we've had here between myself and Dr Madhvi, reflector and DMRSekhar.

By the way,  it's an impt qn because I view poetry here as including all the arts  - that creative spirit if you like in music, art and poetry....Why does this happen? Why do we create?
 
In one of his letters, John Keats said, and this had an important  impact on me, that poetry, if it does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it might as well not come at all. 

So, to answer your qn - first we must 'univesralize' that qn: so that it is no longer a qn of just poets but of all creators. So the answer PERHAPS is, one  does not create  because one can, one creates because one must. Indeed no one creates but creation happens; we are mere tools. 




P.S. 
Raghuram
I'll be away for a month though I'll make irregular visits to sulekha, and I'll certainly  catch up with some of your recent  blogs during those visits.. 

Let me put in a word sideways here: You poets write poems because you can! That is so prosaic, isn't it?

Raghuram Ekambaram