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BCOF 3343 - Poetry & Politics

Day 3343: April 13, 2022 - Prompt: Political: For national poetry month, pick one of these quotes to inspire your blog entry.

“Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.”
June Jordan

         Yes, poetry is a platform where you are able to state your opinion about the affairs of the world, but it is more than that. And everyone's truth is going to be different, as their experiences within the world are different.
But does that make poetry a political act?
Since when did being honest become political?
Telling the truth has been around much longer than politics. It is just the right thing to do. Although, in today's clime I see less and less emphasis put on honesty than in someone's personal opinions about a subject. Somewhere along the way, many have forgotten that everyone's truth is different. They are no longer open to the idea that there can be more than one "truth" about the same instance.
Does an object look the same from all sides and angles? Most often not. The same is true for experience and truth. They are both as we personally perceive them. With all of that being said, many poets do not go near the political circus ring, preferring instead to keep their poetic works over matters of the heart, faith, or their personal experiences.
They might differ from the norm, but this does not make them political.

But that's just the reality as I see it...