- Volume 11 -

A collection of verse

by Dahni

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Dedication -

To: 

Readers and Writers

We are nothing

Without each other

Dahni

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Forward

 By Arman Sicova, editor for Deep Waters Publications

   At first glance upon the title here, one might think this would be the last chapter in a series of collections by the author?  Is this the final chapter of the last collection to be written by Dahni?  The word 'final' brings many images and phrases to mind.  When we think of something being final, it is usually in the connotation of being over with or finished.  This work plants this finality in mind, but more so to reflect upon life through the author's eyes and more importantly, it is bound together with a gothrum or a red thread of possibilities.    

     The word 'final' here is a contradiction only, if both readers and writers fail to heed some of the hidden truths written here.  This figure of speech is an enigma or from the Greek, aenigma from ainissesthai, to tell a strange tale then to speak darkly in riddles. Hence an enigma is a dark or obscure saying, a puzzling statement or action. That which is hidden must be searched for to be discovered.  They are 'hidden' when in all actuality, Dahni writes very clearly and simply.  He may cause us to reach for and look up new words in the dictionary (which is often intentional), or arrest our attention with unusual language, but his words and messages are still clear.

    Often what is meant, is totally opposite from what is written here. An asset of Dahni's that is rarely seen in our day is integrity.  I'm not sure if but a few use the word anymore or that even fewer know of its meaning.  Dahni is a man that endeavors to say and to do what he means.  Knowing this personally about him makes this work even more interesting to me.  Dahni uses language that appear to be saying things that have been concluded when in fact, they are speculative or possible only if we decide to make them so.  Under the category of the figure of speech known as an enigma, another figure is used throughout this work. It is called hypaenixis from hypo (under) and ainissomai (to speak darkly. Hence, a speaking beneath as having another meaning besides those that are actually said.

    This collection is both an inner reflection of the author's mind and issues of importance to many are firmly grasped here.  The poems are often 'deep', metaphysical or philosophical.  However you find them, they still communicate and their meanings are clear.

    The work herein is not an observation of life, but rather the author's interpretation of those observations. This work is unique in that once again, it is a departure from style commonly employed by Dahni. All of his works are different, unique and theme oriented. Final Chapter continues along this same vein.

    As to style, I would like to mention something here about poetry.  There seems to be much confusion about what is and what is not poetry.  Some believe that only words constructed in the context of the 'classic forms' may correctly be called poetry.  Others believe that poetry must rhyme or follow some type of meter, the counting of words in a line, consonants and other such depictions. 

    Our word poetry, poet and poem (s), come from the Greek word poiema which simply means, 'to do or to make.' 

    From ancient Greece and The Roman Empire, poets and orators, philosophers and logicians were highly skilled in the use of language.  As tools for persuasion or communication, language became highly developed, as were figures of speech.  Approximately 220 different figures of speech were known, used and categorized by the ancient Greeks.  Sometimes there are as many as 40 varieties under one figure. 

    From these ancient times, poetry was seen as 'a thing made,' containing heightened and/or 'flowery' language.  Even the phrase 'flowery language' is a figure of speech.  In the least common denominator, poetry is a thing made containing 'beauty of speech.'  Now I have opened the door for debate as to what is and what is not beautiful. 

    All the works of Dahni follow along upon this simple definition of poetry being, 'beauty of speech.'  He writes with a three-fold purpose: to entertain; to cause an emotional response that would lead one to action, and to elevate the consciousness. Always, in all his works, he seeks to build up or edify and not to tear down.

    Final Chapter is not his last work, but rather the conclusion of one thing to begin another. The conclusions of what are written here are left entirely up to the reader to make.  If dreams, imagination and other such matters as written here are to continue, it is entirely in our hands.  For anyone that has written here or reads here, we alone are left to decide the meaning and purpose of, the Final Chapter.   

Deeply,

 Arman

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