Flight of Fancy in Contemporary Love Poetry

Every human being regardless of his or her place and time has the unique gift or imagination, and thus the potential to experience and enjoy a flight of fantasy. The same is true of contemporary love poets engaged in the writing of contemporary love poetry in every era, including the present. Critics and readers of contemporary love poetry also have the gift of creative imagination.

What is a flight of fantasy?

Fiction writers of every time and era demonstrate flights of fantasy in their writing, evident then and later. Being categorized as fiction, makes it acceptable or does it? With contemporary love poets and their contemporary love poetry, flights of fantasy may or may not be perceived in terms of having the gift of creative imagination, or writing 'poetic fiction'. Interestingly, there is no label for that aspect of fiction in contemporary love poetry, at least not yet.

Becoming, or being a fiction writer in any era, is generally regarded as an acceptable occupation, while being a contemporary love poet using fiction in his or her contemporary love poetry may be regarded as suspect, at least by some. The label of flight of fantasy may be used to depict the imagination of a fiction writer, if or when his or her work appears to be radical in nature. It is more frequently applied to contemporary love poets who demonstrate a degree of creativity of imagination in their contemporary love poetry.

The use of creative imagination in contemporary love poetry does not necessarily suggest that the contemporary love poet is out of touch with reality. The contemporary love poetry that he or she pens may be regarded as a pipe dream, a day dream, or mere speculative thought on his or her part. Who is there that does not have pipe dreams, day dreams or speculative thought, at one time or another? Their narratives may be regarded as as humor or 'fish' stories, so to speak, with gross exaggeration or distortion of facts.

The difference between the ordinary, everyday person who recounts 'fish' stories and the contemporary love poet whose creative imagination is at work in his or her contemporary love poetry, is the way it is written or recorded. The contemporary writes in poetic form, as opposed to the ordinary, every day person who may or may not record his or her imaginative 'fish' stories in prosaic fiction, or in any other way either. Many 'fish' stories are evident in oral tradition passed along from generation to generation.

Meditation, contemplation and reverie often lead to a soaring of the imagination where in the mind's eye, there is the play of fancy. Sometimes, it may appears to be more like a stretch of the imagination that is regarded as an impractical, unrealistic notion or idea that is impossible with respect to possibility, much less reality. Such is the world of fiction regardless of its form as contemporary love poetry, or other literary genres of expression.

Why do writers in general, resort to an occasional flight of fantasy, at times?

Perhaps what is happening is visionary in some respect as the contemporary love poet, like other writers, has a vision for the future. Maybe it enhances or creates some mysterious aspect to his or her contemporary love poetry that is intended to intrigue readers. There also the possibility that it just happens like many other different kinds of phenomena.

With respect to romantic contemporary love poetry, there may be a could have, would have and should have aspect to it. Love and its expressions of different levels of passion have a wide degree of expression, at times fictitious in nature.

Flight of fantasy may also be metaphorical in contemporary love poetry, as it proves to be a viable or even the best way for a contemporary love poet to express his or her thoughts and feelings.

The truth or untruth revealed in a poetic flight of fantasy by the contemporary love poet, often kindles the fire of imagination in its critics or readers, then, or at a later time. The fire of imagination may appear to be uncontrollable to some, particularly to those who do not understand it. At any time, a flight of fancy may simply warm the hearth, hearts and minds of those who love contemporary love poetry and the writers thereof.