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Monday Poetry Prompt: Philosophical

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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.

 

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About Bartholomew Barker

Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, a collection of poets in the Triangle region of North Carolina where he has hosted a monthly feedback workshop for more than decade. 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 lives and writes poetry.

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9 thoughts on “Monday Poetry Prompt: Philosophical”

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  2. JeanMarie's avatar

    Concrete philosophy…. Life is a paradox, and that just makes my head hurt!

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    Posted by JeanMarie | March 18, 2019, 6:12 PM
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  3. Steve Croft's avatar

    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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    Posted by Steve Croft | March 19, 2019, 12:49 PM
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