March 21 brings together different occasions, such as Nowruz Day for many peoples, International Poetry Day, and Mother's Day in many Arab societies.

Nowruz is almost the only cultural holiday celebrated by different peoples, especially in Asia.

It includes nationalities including Tajiks, Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Baluchis, Pashtuns, Kyrgyzs, and even Macedonia and the Balkans in Eastern Europe.

About 300 million people around the world celebrate Nowruz (the day of the vernal equinox) as the beginning of the new year, and the celebration has a long history of more than 3 thousand years in Central Asia, as well as in the Black Sea Basin, the Middle East, the Caucasus, the Caspian and other regions.

Iranian, Kurdish, Afghan, Pakistani and Central Asian peoples celebrate Nowruz. Iranians consider Nowruz to coincide with the renewal of nature at the beginning of spring as a message that has many positive meanings.

Such as optimism, love, hope and peace. Nowruz is also celebrated on the coast of East Africa, and it is called in Swahili “Naruzi”.

As for poetry, it is the dialogue of dreamers, and the international community celebrates World Poetry Day on the same day, on an occasion that many see as an opportunity to restore the tone of poetry and reveal the poem, in societies that no longer care about the Qur’an, after they were occupied by smartphones, photos and videos instead of books and books.

In this report, Al Jazeera Net opens a window to extrapolate the souls of some Moroccan poets, in search of what remained of the revelation and the breath of my poetry in their lives.

Poetry and the present

In fact, poetry no longer had that brilliance, according to Dr. Abdel Wahed Al-Tohamy Alami, in his meeting with Al-Jazeera Net, and he said that the position that poetry had in our society before the sixty and seventy years, when it had a wide audience of readers and recipients, but rather a kind of decline and decadence occurred In the poetic writings that we read today, and in the absence of explicit constructive criticism, the space was opened for compliments, relationships and the exchange of personal interests, so the word poet has become applied to everyone who does not deserve this title.

As for the poet Fatiha Al-Nouh, she opened the folds of her poetry collections to the island, where she sees poetry celebrating itself, its bonds with similar and different breezes. To be keen on the poetry of the world, and to stand one day on the ugliness of humanity without a moment of poetry, to die poetry is more worthy for us than to live with impunity.

"It is unfortunate", a self-narration by the poet Fatiha Al-Nouhu (Al-Jazeera)

To that poetic glow, the poet Qassem Al-Ansari, owner of the Divan “My Cases of Cities” and Divan “Surgeries”, says that poetry played on the strings of the inner flame of man, in harmony with the mechanisms of beautiful human taste, an aesthetic ability to implant the soul in words, and intricate embroideries to facilitate reaching the ecstasy of inspiration and creation. .

For all these unconditional faculties no necessity.

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The Ansari poet stresses the necessity of creating a frank and bold relationship with the self and the recipient. For all this, it is normal and correct to allocate even one day to gather the scattered poets around one song entitled International Poetry Day, and it would be better if it was a world month for poetry.

Abdel Wahed Al-Tohamy Alami, author of the book “Patterns of Receiving Narrative,” adds that World Poetry Day represents an occasion to feel the importance of this beautiful and ancient literary race that refines souls, softens hearts, upgrades tastes, and raises people to the level of humanity that loves beauty, and suppresses hatred and ugliness.

UNESCO defines poetry as a form of expression and a manifestation of linguistic and cultural identity. It addresses the human values ​​shared by all peoples. Poetry transforms simple words of poems into a great catalyst for dialogue and peace.

Poetry is a language that composes people and elevates beauty. Poetry elevates society to lofty ideals, and establishes the value of love among human beings.

Too many poets and too little hair

Unfortunately, poetic shallowness has become prevalent despite the abundance of poetic production and the printing of collections, according to what the critic Abdul Wahed Al-Tohamy Al-Alami believes, as there are many poets and little poetry.

Adding that the dumping of poetry in direct has become commonplace.

The poetry that is being written today, in his eyes, is a body without a soul, in which there is a lot of ambiguity that does not say anything, and in it there is a lot of distortion of the aesthetics of expression.

Al-Hutay'ah once said:

And the hair is hard and long, he delivered it if he rises in it who does not know it

I slipped him to the bottom, his feet wanted to cross him and stumble upon him

Also, the poet Fatiha Al-Nouhu, the author of the book “To you, the thirsty, is all this watering” tends to the fact that not everything that is printed is a poetry bundle, and that poetry in its springs is thrown and not written down, perhaps because memory does not accommodate the imagined, perhaps because there is a process of diarrhea in Printing and publishing without a critical approach to what is scattered on patient paper on a lot of nonsense, but when serious, the single is honored or common.

And the poet Al-Nouh adds, "We do not ask the poet to do the action, but rather to react. Here lies the symbolism of what he sings. Lyricism is not a defective condition of the social contract. To listen to the music of pain informs us that we are weeping in the midst of joy."

As for the poet Jalila Al-Khali’, she sees the poetic scene as crowded to the point of confusion, but not all poetic versions have the same creative weight, and not all poetic figures are of the same length.

And "this crowding is due to the absence of serious criticism, as long as we rely on the principle of sympathy with a poet and ignore others, but, I don't think, that the poets' power has faded, for every century has its poetic names."

The poet Jalila Al-Khelaia considers that the poetic scene is crowded to the point of confusion (Al-Jazeera)

Where are the poets?

The poet is the son of his environment, according to the poet Jalila Al-Khali’, who has a doctorate on the subject of the ancient Arabic text, and the author of the book “Letters Not His” and the book “Shadow Curved on the Seat of the Sun”, where she sees that the poet is the tongue of his people “he always proceeds from the self-infused ego to gather with it.” All pronouns are a mirror of himself and his surroundings, expressing his suffering and the suffering of his society. There is no good in a poet who is separated from his environment and lives far from the concerns of his society.

Also, "the poet is a metaphor for a being who is excessive in his estimations, and is honest in his dealings with events and the environment, and his strength in my estimation is reduced by that scandalous fragility," according to the poet Jalila.

The poet, according to Qassem Al-Ansari, being particularly sensitive, “feels things more strongly and has the words to say. Poetry is essentially a means of expressing feelings and sensations, moving to other worlds and criticizing social and political shortcomings. But it can also have a simple aesthetic and playful function, Rather, the poet may be considered by others as a strange being. He himself often also wonders about his nature and his function in society.

And because many poets are separated in their writing in one way or another, according to Al-Ansari, from the concerns and issues of their societies, “they are separated in content and content, which often focus on the individual concerns and personal experiences of the poet, so the reader hardly understands the desired idea and is not able to unravel the complexities of the carefully woven picture, As if the aim of it was that the reader would not understand anything, which made people renounce poetry and poets.

As for Abdel Wahed Al-Tohamy Al-Alami, poetry has become concerned with itself, and "is no longer concerned with the poetic message that is directed to serving human issues locally, Arab and humanitarian," adding that some researchers believe that the phenomenon of declining demand for poetry has now become a global phenomenon, but it differs. Its level is between East and West, and tends to favor the West for the most part.” Perhaps that is on the pretext of modernity or beyond.

Resurrecting the soul in poetry

Poetry always remains the Diwan of the Arabs, according to the poet Jalila Al-Khali’, despite the prevailing saying that the current Arab creative time is the time of the novel. It is only evidence that poetry is the Diwan of the Arabs and the preserver of its history.

In order to instill a new spirit in poetry, according to Alami, and to urge our youth to embrace it despite the tyranny of the digital revolution, it is necessary first for young poets to master the so-called machine sciences (in terms of grammar, morphology, rhetoric, presentations...etc), then secondly they must be familiar with the secrets of the Arabic language, and they must Thirdly, that poets write in a language that has a great influence on literary life in general, and in this way - as I see it - that they raise this beautiful literary genre, and take it to horizons that restore its glamor, charm and audience.