Diwan Ali Al-Jarim (Part I)

Poetry is perhaps the most difficult of all arts to learn, and the furthest from being attained through study and training. Rather, it is a ray that God places in the heart of whomever He wills, a gift that He grants to whomever He wills, and a moral sense that He increases in creating a group of His servants who feel through it what many people do not feel, and so they translate it into an enchanting statement. And a clear statement.The great poet, Ali Al-Jarm, believes that poetry is a paved path between the world of bodies and the world of spirits. It transmits to mortal matter the scents of the immortal soul, and sends to the darknesses of life a sacred light, dispelling the clouds of darkness, and revealing the path to confused hope. Poetry is not meter alone, nor is rhyme alone, nor The words that fill the void of iambics, even if they are sweet and gentle, but poetry is what lies behind each verse of spiritual light that has found an outlet among its words, and of heavenly magic without which the verse has moved the edge of the curtain.Like all arts, poetry is either an art, or it is not, or it is poetry, or it is not. It does not have, like other products of the minds, good, average, or bad. It is either good, or it is not poetry. Yes, the quality varies, but if it descends to the point of mediocrity, poetry loses its advantages, is robbed of its components, and becomes speech, just as a guilty leader is stripped of his ranks and titles and becomes a soldier.