On Cosmic Poetry

I use the term "cosmic poetry" idiosyncratically. On the other hand, although my description may seem suitable for other labels, such as "transcendental poetry" among other possible options, I refrain from using the latter term due to its technical meaning in German Romanticism.

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Cosmic Poetry is not to write a few verses describing the nature or the universe, the ocean or a wheat field, a deer or the moonlight— it is to mingle within the cosmos and to speak about it as though you are, yourself, one of the trees in a jungle with countless details, or a wave in an ocean that no one knows how and where to locate; one deer among the multitudes of its species, or a moose that veils herself in the depth of a forest at twilight.

This type of poetry eagerly seeks to dwell in things; to be united with them, and to love them deeply as the most precious in existence. Therefore, poetry, in this sense, can never be separated from spiritual experiences. It is an act of worship and fulfillment that goes hand in hand with creation and creativeness, and a pursuit after the unknown and towards comprehension and getting intimate acquaintance with ‘the beyond.’ It is an act of love, and out-of-oneself movement to surmount the borders between external things and us. Cosmic poetry is, then, to interiorize the elements of the cosmos, or to let these elements interiorize us; hence it can be called Magical, weaving everything together and creating new possibilities for inner experiences and for surfing through the surroundings with new eyes.

There is a big difference between describing a natural phenomenon, say a tree, as a beautiful view or something agreeable to the eye, and the emergence of that tremendous and persistent feeling of the necessary delving inside of it, as though to disclose its inmost truth, to tell its story. Thus, the tree, the deer, the sea, the moon, and the galaxy come to have a past and a future, a narrative, not a mere inanimate present. And the poet, in this case, can move freely between spaces, not only horizontally, but vertically and in new directions as well, dwelling in the material as in the divine, seeking to reveal what is veiled and to freely expand the realm of the knowable.

By Fadi Abu-Deeb

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