I listen to a lot of NPR on errands in the car. Thursday nights at 8 is Philosophy Talk. Because it’s National Poetry Month, the topic was poetry and philosophy, and I caught most of the show.
I have journaled most of my life, and my life hasn’t been rosy or well-lit at times. Digging through an old journal file I found my opinion (whose else would I find?) on poetry and philosophy from a letter written to my brother:
Someone asked me what poetry had to do with philosophy. Poetry=personal philosophy, doesn’t it? It is a sorting through…or it is for me. It is the darkness of our lives and minds that we choose to illuminate instead of ignore.
I wish I could say something of significance, something more.
©2006 Sandra Davidson
I think you captured most of it well actually . Though like most poets you allude to the darkness. Occasionally there’s also the light…
There is. I have been told even my playful poems are serious. My life knows more light now, and that is a blessing, a new perspective from which to write poetry.
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