Thomas Davis writes on the utility of poetry, using the recently published Indra’s Net as a launching point.
an essay by Thomas Davis written after reading the poetry anthology, Indra’s Net
When I was a teenager, determined to become a poet and writer, Look Magazine, one of the United States’ most popular publications at the time, wrote an editorial that denigrated the utility of poetry. A lot of decades have passed since I read the editorial, but its assertion that poetry had no real use in a world filled with the marvels of science and technology still stirs me to a passion. As I thought back then, what an exercise in the hubris of trying to stir up controversy.
Look Magazine, of course, has been defunct for some time, and while I was in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin at the Breadloaf Bookstore doing a book signing, Indra’s Net, published by Bennison Books (who also published my epic poem, The Weirding Storm, A Dragon Epic) came…
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O at the Edges 
Thanks for the pointer. Four Winds looks like a good site to follow.
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i.e., windows 🙂
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We see through both! 🙂
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On that note, here’s a little haiku to gratify your poetic sensibility:
rough seas framed in art
white sand on cool skin touches
our side of the glass
🙂
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A bonus With Indra’s Net is that it showed me other WordPress poets I had been missing out on.
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There are so many poets out there, but it’s difficult to make connections or to find them. So Indra’s Net is really helpful.
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Thank you for the article, Bob. It was an interesting read…if anyone were to ask, why read poetry? I think I’d point them to that page.
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All praise to Thomas! It is a good reply to that question.
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Amen, indeed! He handled it very well.
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Intersting Poetry
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Yes, thank you.
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My Pleasure!!
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Some difficult similes to digest but glad of the opportunity to find some new poets on WordPress. Found John Looker, who writes formal verse with confidence. i do like the roll of pentameter.
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Am always grateful for these opportunities – it’s too easy to hole up in my shack and ignore the world.
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It’s not easy facing the world.
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Especially when you’ve spent years trying to evade it!
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But you can’t write a poem without witnessing it.
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Ah, the rub!
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You get lather if you don’t rub.
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