BAILEY'S AFRICAN TRADITION POETRY Volume 78

"Poetry," meaning "the art of the poet" was originated among Primitive Africans, the first humans on earth. Their earliest communications, initially orchestrated mainly by Right Brain progress usage, concerned displays of imagination and verbal creativity because of having no Earth world parents or models to follow. This meant their Spiritual Poetry, Humanity's earliest language, was based upon imitating beautiful rhythms of Nature, as birds' "cau, cau, cau"; water mammals' "Clicks"; land animals' Whistles. Such-put in the most beautiful language--used in the most beautiful way-elevates one into a beautiful mindset that probably spurred desires/needs to communicate with humans. Meanwhile, they had perfected outer world usage of their Common Sense Truths derived from their pre-birth instilled Cosmic Knowledge. By communication initially being orchestrated mainly by Right Brains-a source of Connaturality (instinctive knowing of others' feelings, since all humans' Non-Selves came from the same God Seed)-enabled them to agree on a Prose Language. Those denotative/connotative words were put into beautiful rhythms + beautiful sounds simulating actions of life. Examples were drawn from Nature's processes. That pleasant Poetic thinking/Poetic speech evolved into Practical sub-classes needed for people's communications in Spiritual/Metaphysical, Spiritual/Secular, Metaphysical/Secular, Secular/Secular realms. Bingaman says all have in common a worded, vivid Surreal residence. Thus, for each sub-class, Poetry's intent is to use emotive words to awaken ones reality-beyond-meaning. By so doing, ones imagination designs Icon Images which impact ones "Heart." That impact disengages ones existing mindset from ones newly 'awakened' awareness. This existing 'awareness' is by word sounds + their rhythms. That mentally designs Icon Images containing a Disposition Message. Each embraces a related whole mood, thought, feeling. Any accounts for ones mushroomed 'aliveness, ' spurred by a captured reality, distortion, or fantasy moment of life. "Spiritual" Poetry includes mosaics of Cosmic (God) Laws' Essences/Essentials emanated out of the Divine Logos-i.e. Laws of Nature. Metaphysical Poetry is humans' Right Brains dealing with Cosmic (God) Virtual (Primordial) Icon Images. They also convey Spiritual Icon Images with a Disposition Message for being carried out by humans' Genius/Wisdom/Intellect hierarchy. The intent is to deliver in the Earth world the Divine Plan. Metaphysical Poetry is superior to Secular Poetry because one can describe Icon Image Messages, using words others feel as right but are unable to express. That connects Receivers with delightful past memories and/or allows them to give wonderful interpretations for what is being experienced. Secular Poetry refers to non-spiritual, human-made mundane, profane, Earth World things, e.g. the public; ordinary daily living. All Poetry sub-classes have Surreal aspects. I define "Surreal" as the wide-ranging span between "touching the real and entering beyond the unreal." Surreal's sub-classes include: Exaggerated Reality; Delusional Reality; Almost Unreal; Unreal; Beyond Unreal. Such can contribute to one being introduced into knowing about what one does not know to know that might lead one into mental forms of exploring pertinent Unknowns--or, into decisions of what layers need to be added, rearranged, recombined, removed--in order to untangle the glob of significance. Any of these have potentials to lead one toward Understanding relationships for a solution. Then, each repeated study of potentially "Workable" decisions/solutions peels away a top layer covering the confusion. Next, as each inner layer over the core message is uncovered, the more insights of a wider, higher, deeper nature become-each expanding on richer scopes of meanings. Any of those might steer one into pertinent Unknowns to explore, more varied Options, or definitive Choices, Decisions, and/or Solutions.