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POETRY AS CHARISMATIC MANTRAS To speak of poetry is to experience anew the intense feelings when we first read a poem that moved us, shook us, and left us breathless. With poetry as charismatic mantras, nature changes colors, becoming mystical and impalpable. Poetry reveals love and beauty, with its metaphoric language at once mysterious and universal; revels in light, in timeless auroras past, present, and future; between the last ray of sun and the night spark, when nature freezes silence, and the words immolate themselves in their original splendor. Poetry is demanding and claims the allegiance of the totality of life and being. Poetry asks that all rivers join the ocean and wonders why the inspiration dries at the end of love. Poetry is the first cry of life, the voice of conscience, and the source of the inexhaustible passion. Specular and decentered, poetry transforms symbols and incantations into metaphors, drunkenness, and minimal destitution. Poetry is real and abstract, flooded with signs, absences, links, and gaps. The poet falls in love with words full of life, complete and unfinished, with multiple dimensions, halfway between the absolute and the relative. Poetry insists on its existence and can be spiritually powerful when extraordinary. It claims its imperishable existence outside of social conventions, beyond academic formalities. Poetry floats at the water's edge and temporarily drowns in its waves within each existential cell, a droplet of love or tear shed. Poetry assumes open questions without being able to give a direct answer or a satisfactory interpretation. It is an endless wave, recomposed itself in the occult and the enigmatic motto: If all rivers are sweet Where does the sea get its salt?[1] Poetry and its gaping meaning sometimes reach out to reveal a pact written in sympathetic ink, veiled intimacy of scrupulous innocence, or wobbly wisdom, as a multiple reality under the terms of its deco