The Risks of Poetry

[bi_janus]

The link below is to a piece in this Sunday's NYT about a group of women who undertake risks that most don't have to undertake to write poetry, in this case traditional Afghan poetry. I suppose, like all people, they express themselves, sometimes at great risk, because something in them insists on expression.

http://www.nytimes.c...-poetry.html?hp

[DesDownunder]

"...but more marvellous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery." - Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince.

[Camy]

It is hard to believe we inhabit the same planet.