Best Cogito Poems

What if the great Rene Descartes,
Renaissance man of many parts.
for all his fame and coruscation
is nothing but a fine creation
of my own imagination?

Philosophically disabused.
I think therefore I am

confused....

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I think i am here for now until it's all done and my earthly tasks are completed. 
Will they speak the same words spoken of life with tear marks glistening and crystallized on the cheeks of the visitors. 
Will the guests guess what was in...

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I wonder...

if that known
were but a dream
and that unknown
were real,
do I exist?

or...

if that known
does not exist
and that unknown
ceases existence
upon becoming known,
can I exist?...

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Every last one of my thoughts
Is begged, borrowed or stolen 
Somewhere in memory
They are freeze-dried or frozen 

I want to chip at the edifice
Want to recognize what's real
Is it some second-hand artifact
Or a thing I can call real?

Every last one of my friends
Is there because...

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If a light  thinker,  I am superficial...
If ponderous,  I am the elephant
in the room, unwanted and unloved.
If I think at all,  I am minority,
wandering from problem to conclusion—
again..again 
bringing forth curious glances
from everyone who likes one's own conclusions
undisturbed, set in place,
like...

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The account of Descartes was redoubtable:
“I exist, since this thought is undoubtable.”
   Mister Hume peered inside,
   Said, “I see naught besides
Just my thoughts, so your logic is floutable.”...

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I scribble because I exist
I exist because I write
I survive in my yearnings...

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I'm not notable reader of the rich Latin language,
That treasures within its realm mountainous barns of knowledge…
Thoughts and philosophies, like symphony, around-the-clock,
To this ocean, like sea animals, for full refuge, flock...

Of all, like sediments, one who has settled in my mind,
And floats to the surface,...

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“Destiny” implies
a controlling external force - 
the random positioning of planets in solar orbit,
or the mysterious machinations of a spurious spirit in the sky - 
both impressively improbable and laughably unlikely.
Occam’s razor slashes!
And free will is the last rational refuge standing...

September 14, 2020...

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I have my fears
I have my brakes
but without much thinking
I buy myself many things.
I accumulate many .debts...
Out of fear I tell myself some things
to rationalize and apologize...
I buy, I consume...
Soon I exist...!
 Cogito ergo sum ! !...

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I fight, I live, I die, therefore I am!

My thoughts, my thoughts,
You give me strength.
The winds of war had scattered 
my soul, until I read these lines
in a sad column, just specks of truth.

My misfortune blown away
with the cogito, in our Ukraine
orphaned children have stories...

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I Think Therefore I Am
     do I think
     or am I just a parrot
     barking back ideas
     someone spoke in my ear...

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I often sit and ponder many things 
A host of multifarious subjects: 
A few perhaps are shallow but they bring
Me food for thought, the balance are complex.
At times I think about the universe
 The sphere of life and death experience.
Those thoughts alone I find myself...

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COGITO ERGO SUM

I think, therefore I am
Cogito Ergo Sum
As in Latin it’s said
But I’m not a linguist
My headache feels like lead

I think, therefore I am
And my brain tells me so
Am I defined by thought
My neurons are firing
But may still come to naught

I think, therefore I...

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Science hears what,
  Philosophy why

The deafest of twins
  —singing in the same choir

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)...

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