This week let’s write a philosophical poem. The trick is not to make it too abstract. Post your concrete example in the comments below.
About Bartholomew Barker
Bartholomew Barker is one of the organizers of Living Poetry, a collection of poets and poetry lovers in the Triangle region of North Carolina. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written in and about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021. Born and raised in Ohio, studied in Chicago, he worked in Connecticut for nearly twenty years before moving to Hillsborough where he makes money as a computer programmer to fund his poetry habit.
I decided to post mine on my blog. Here it is: https://prolificpulse.blog/2019/03/18/the-golden-mean-i-think-i-got-an-a/
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Great work! Quite Meaningful.
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Thank You!
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Concrete philosophy…. Life is a paradox, and that just makes my head hurt!
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Just like abstract athletics: no pain, no gain, right?
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I’m out of my depth with the abstract athletics! No pain – ever!
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Very much like Lisa’s poem. I can only get impressions from philosophy, not so much understand it, but I do like reading it. I’ve especially liked the impression I get from Husserl’s “the phenomenological reduction.” I’ve always liked reading about that. Still, I just get impressions:
In Spring at the Sea Walk
“Go back to the things themselves”
–Edmund Husserl
I’m on the sensible horizon
of a wonderful physical canvas,
a technicolored painting of ocean
that changes but remains the same.
The boats that pass belong here, even after
they pass. The blackbird on the “Np Swimming —
Rip Currents” sign, which, at high tide, sticks out
of the waves on its two poles, belongs there
even after it’s flown away.
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Great first line. I love a sensible horizon.
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indeed, Sensible horizon!
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