Duke R Silva is an industrious thoughtful author, whose works are of twofold rank; the one in poetry, and the other in Philosophical literature. On the one he seeks to touch all Almas (souls) through their relating and fashioning to common life and experiences, aimed at uplifting the spirit and nourishing the reading mind. It could be said of his poetry to be a true image of his soul, conveying stories, messaging ideas and sentiments, while ironically criticizing the human life where it failed its higher acme potentials. His such work ranges from poetic styles in Abstract, Ballad, Dramatic, Free Verse, Elegy, Lyric, Epigram and Narrative, with exhibited predominance in a palate for free verses and prose. He arranges his writing materials formation emulating Life’s experiences and hardships, Romance and matters of the heart, human bond and shared values, culture and customs, social justice and equity, socio-political critique, blended with metaphysics, existentialism and moralism philosophical principles and systems of though. He follows poetic history while inspired by Ancient Bards and prose logicians.
On the other, as a faithful student of the Free Science, his chief endeavors comprised of Philosophical inquiries pertaining to human experience, being the thirst for broad knowledge and universal cultivation that which magnetized his curiosities, all greatly inclined toward creative arts and free abound inquiries into the matter of human animation as aided by the Polaris faculty in moral philosophy. However far his explorative thoughts strayed, yet they landed him back unto the province of humanistic philosophical systems of thought and, therein, samewise, other principles concerned with the human life as a whole, and the social cause for justice and equity. Born on February 28, 1962, on the tropic shores of the peaceable and loving Rep. of Cabo Verde, he settled in the USA in 1980 along with his loving siblings, to join and fulfill his parents’ dreams. His scholastic feats have been sought through the hard trails of life dating back to homeland’s good teachings. Least concerned with credentials and other symbolic proclamations or honors, such as could be sought and attained through regulated and agenda-oriented institutionalized entities of learning, rather he wished to remain free and amply afforded as to immerse into unrestricted researches and study, lost in contemplation and its abound quests for knowable matters.
