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Are philosophy, poetry and literature separated areas?

I think not. Much poetry glosses over life and its joys, fate, destiny, our place in the universe, illusion, pain without reason and the cruel element of life.

Is poetry about the meaning of life too limited, too restricted for the transmission of banal philosophical equations?

I do like a poem from Lord Byron.

But words are things,

and a small drop of

ink, falling, like dew,

upon a thought, produces

that which makes thousands,

perhaps millions, think.

Does anyone have a favorite philosophy poem?

Does a song count?

Here's my favourite :-

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant

Who was very rarely stable.

Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar

Who could think you under the table.

David Hume could out-consume

Schopenhauer and Hegel,

And Wittgenstein was a beery swine

Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.

There's nothing Nietzche couldn't teach ya

'Bout the raising of the wrist.

Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,

On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.

Plato, they say, could stick it away--

Half a crate of whiskey every day.

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle.

Hobbes was fond of his dram,

And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart.

'I drink, therefore I am.'

Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed,

A lovely little thinker,

But a bugger when he's pissed.

I really like that. Thank you for writing that.