One day, a long time ago Kevin turned to Gecko to share his dream of what his vision could be, "Go forth," he said, "Find volunteers who love classical poetry, and make this dream come true."
Soon, there was a group who all believed in the dream and stone by stone, poet by poet, they laid the foundations. They were like early man when he first emerged from the jungle and gazed up at the moon, thinking one day I shall stand up there and touch the stars.'
Today we have reached that point, we have an amazing collection of poets and poetry, not just those who wrote in English, but poets and poetry from every corner of the Earth. The team who have made this dream come true have been many, they have spent hours searching the internet, the schools, the libraries and every source available for any scrap of information available to add to the site. Many have been lost to the real world but always someone has come along to take their place in creating the best poetry reference site on the internet.
And like mankind, we can stand on the moon but those stars still lie far from reach. Though with this new, clearer vision, we can see more clearly the stars, and each day we see new ones being born and whole constellations previously undiscovered, lie in our sights. Just as each day, with the world opening up and more information becomes available on each cultures poetic greats and new poets pass into the realms of old poets. We can see our dream is still far from completion, but the spirit which has driven us all still drives today.
Soon, there was a group who all believed in the dream and stone by stone, poet by poet, they laid the foundations. They were like early man when he first emerged from the jungle and gazed up at the moon, thinking one day I shall stand up there and touch the stars.'
Today we have reached that point, we have an amazing collection of poets and poetry, not just those who wrote in English, but poets and poetry from every corner of the Earth. The team who have made this dream come true have been many, they have spent hours searching the internet, the schools, the libraries and every source available for any scrap of information available to add to the site. Many have been lost to the real world but always someone has come along to take their place in creating the best poetry reference site on the internet.
And like mankind, we can stand on the moon but those stars still lie far from reach. Though with this new, clearer vision, we can see more clearly the stars, and each day we see new ones being born and whole constellations previously undiscovered, lie in our sights. Just as each day, with the world opening up and more information becomes available on each cultures poetic greats and new poets pass into the realms of old poets. We can see our dream is still far from completion, but the spirit which has driven us all still drives today.
Written by Andrew Hide
- Last seen on Oct 4 12:34 PM. Member since September 5, 2003.
- I'm a citrine experience poet for 150 comments.
- My mood is , and quote is "The ultimate online poetry museum".
- When I'm not writing, I'm a Researcher and Lover of Classical Poetry.
- Visit my homepage at oldpoetry.com
- I support the site as a gold member
- I have 150 comments, 22 contests, 68 columns, 3 poems
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY A. N. OTHER Not much is known abou70 lines, 4 comments, March 18, 2008
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You did not hear the scratching quill,
but just the words which linger still35 lines, 36 comments, January 5, 2005. In Other
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Come with me a little while, and wander around the world,15 lines, 63 comments, November 24, 2004. In Hope
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- Column: What Makes A Good Comment at allpoetry
On OLDPOETRY [ http://oldpoetry.com/ ] members and guests are welcome to make comments about the Old Poets and their poems.
Briefly the criteria are Relevance, Decency and Courtesy. - Column: POSTING TRANSLATIONS ON THE OLDPOETRY SITE at allpoetry
Other than the rule about the time elapsing between a poet’s death and their work appearing on the Oldpoetry site, I wouldn’t like to be too prescriptive about how we post translations but I do feel that we should try to make things as clear as possible f - Column: “THEY WENT WITH SONGS TO THE BATTLE” at allpoetry
For the Commemoration of the Anzac Forces who were injured or died in battle on 25th April 1915 during the Gallipoli Campaign - Lest We Forget
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BrokenSanity on April 10Oooh, nice page, poet! Just popping in to say HI! Oh, and I'm invading your guestbook.
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Vera Rich on April 6Back in 1952 or 1953 I won the "Dorothy and William Wordsworth" prize given by The Poetry Society (the UK one!). So I wish you every success with this competition.
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Judith Chandler : Thank you for the visuals on March 8with the inkwell, new since last time I was here, I think.
Wordsworth? I'm a bit intimidated by him at the moment, by the contest anyway.
I wondered lonely as a cloud,
fearful of Wordsworth's mighty shroud.
Could be a start.
Cheers
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Tqop : Hi, on February 18I like your contest.
I don't know what you think of my poem.
I tried very hard.
I hope you like it.
Evemauy.
