Defending Poetry

(This was my first post on my website in 2023, and I am revisiting and reviving its bones in 2026, and then as now I say poetry is good)

So everyone around me has been watching me write this poetry website. In the beginning, they all had a good chuckle because I started from ground zero knowledge-wise, and some things were a bit of a challenge. The second thing they did after they looked at my work was to ask me why I am spending so much time writing a website about poetry.

Revisiting this page three years onward, I am still saying that the worth of poetry is priceless. Poetry is good, poetry is necessary, poetry is what emboldens and brings goodness. The beat of poetry is what gives us rhythm and inspires, and that is why poetry is still the first tile on the site.

Now, writing in 2026, my website has expanded, and looks much better. I laugh at how awkward my early web pages were, nothing worked and the blocks awkwardly tumbled across the pages, ten messy static pages written badly.

I still love poetry, but I have expanded my website to include prose, music, art and math. Poetry and these topics have always gone together hand in hand, and always been part of my life.

My logo for the website is, “Create to the Rhythm of You”. I chose that logo because the joy of living is creating, and all of humankind hums together in rhythm.

Still, I like poetry, and I still get questions running along the lines of, “What good is poetry? Why are you wasting your time? Nobody makes money writing poetry.” It must be remarked that they are not readers, because readers would already know the answers to these questions. Poetry is good, as is prose, art, music and lovely math.

However, these questions are fair enough I suppose, the world runs on money, and there is the somewhat true stereotype of the starving writer.

Writers make nowhere near what programmers or engineers make. But what such questions don’t take into account is that creativity changes and evolves as society changes. The arts live and breathe and adapt to create value in all stages of history. Earliest humans had hymns to the gods—perhaps the arts shaped the way humanity evolved, in fact.

The arts, they are a refining fire, enough to bring down or build up a civilization, or on a small scale changes a person.