SOURCE: OUTLOOKINDIA

'Resurrection in today’s post-truth world is how and what we remember. The poem is a reminder. It immortalizes the act of witnessing it as we did in various ways'.

Poems live many lives. One is on paper, in its physical form. In verse and metre and rhyme and iamb. The second is in the mind, in its abstract form. In emotion and creation and memory and feeling. The third is in history, in the form of record. As songs, as grief, as protest, as remembrance.

World Poetry Day is being celebrated on 21 March since 1999 after UNESCO declared it a day of importance with the purported aim to support “linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard”.