By Tauseefuddin Khan
Thanks to the internet which has brought and connected different people belonging to different nationalities together. Sharing is the easiest job on the net now-days. Internet has helped many people belonging to different professions to showcase their talent on the net and among such people also exists poets. The traditional approach to share your poetry was ‘family/friends sittings’ or a function specialty meant for poetry symposium or getting it published through a publisher who scrutinizes each bit of poetry line so much that most of the authors dream to get published remains a mere dream only. Poets were waiting from since long time for a medium to express their free thoughts on matters related to popular subjects and their quest for expression has been met by the techno and user friendly internet. Sharing poetry through internet has helped many poets to establish themselves and some were lucky enough to make a mark of their poetry.
The common approach to share your poetry online is to just make a website and then start writing and submitting your poems there – people who are interested to poetry may land to your page accidently through the search engine master Google. Another way is to join forums – a poetry forum where you can share your poems – receive comments on it and you read other poets poems and can post comment on it. This helps many poets to hone their poetic skills. Such forums are poet friendly – means even you submit still you have the rights over your intellectual property. Another advantage is – with the help of a website or by being a member of a forum you can extend your limited geographical reach to unbound territories of the world cabled through net.
Internet has helped poets in keeping their inspiration alive for writing poetical stuff – those who had stopped writing earlier because of lack of readers started writing again seeing the benefits of the internet. With full audio and video support – the internet has re-revolutionized information sharing and everyone is deriving full advantage of it. There are more to it – further a poet can make an eBook of his collection of written poems and can start selling it for a particular price – can take up self marketing measures and steps to ensure his sales graphs reaches a high scale. Further – there is a possibility of making money by other online information sharing approaches.
So, what are you waiting for? If you know how to rhyme your sayings then it’s a highly right time to start sharing it through the internet medium, many are doing it and you can also if you are a poet. There is indeed an element of happiness if not an element of monetary compensation for your writing for internet. And as you know, that happiness has no price tag and is vital for peace of mind.