I do believe the purest definition of poetry is simply the magnificent way this earth we dwell on presents itself on every single day it exists! So of course we must make sure it continues to exist in what’s left of this era so rife with greed and destruction.
But of course when in all of history has there NOT been greed and destruction?
Today’s problem however is that we now have rapid and efficient ways to totally wipe out our entire planet, and in so doing, we have the capacity to destroy poetry…..destroying beauty destroys poetry……like Trump
covering over the White House’s rose garden with ugly concrete…everything Trump touches dies….. but I digress.
There is no poetry in Trump, or in anything to do with him.
His idea of beauty is fake gaudy gold dripping from everything….no poetry there…only hubris and deep deep despair of the human spirit.
So Trump is the opposite of poetry …..of course poetry has celebrated and allowed to thrive during even the vilest of politics and human destruction….epic poems often deal with evil, pure and powerful evil…so poetry – HAIL POETRY!!!!!- really doesn’t judge, it simply vibrates with the truth of everything…..poetry is vibration of the human spirit, good, bad and indifferent.
Poetry defines beauty in even the darkest meanest things and people.
So Trump is another Aeneid, another Faust….but in this poetically sad modern day version, Trump is both non heroic protagonist and the Devil himself….…..Trump, the totally soulless demons that drive him, and all he touches is tragic waste, speaking of childhood abuse and a poverty level of genuine affection.
And in the same universe, blessed be, to our sincere benefit, are these Sierra Nevada Mountains and the pure unavoidable grace they bestow on us all….even Donald Trump.