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Best Cogito Poems

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Cogito Ergo Sum Confusion
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...

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Categories: cogito, imagination, philosophy, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member I Think Therefore I Am
I THINK THEREFORE I AM


"An ounce of hypocrisy is worth 
a pound of ambition" --Michael Korda

Liberty...
This everyone's want--
stretching an autonomy to unbuckle self-discovery

I got mites...

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Categories: cogito, character, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Diamonds of Inspiration
Those eyes of yours
Holding a bunch of blue sky 
Have been inspiring me lifelong
To seek rhyme and song
In turbulence  
A Buddha like balance

Then you,...

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Categories: cogito, beauty, blue, image, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
A Search For Idealism
Going within the shrine of my heart's hidden mind,
In things without, the truth I often do not find; 
I dream of greatness. This I expect...

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Categories: cogito, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Am
Being who I am
			It appears that I am ...


A thinker cogito ergo sum
        A Feeler therefore I am...

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Categories: cogito, caregiving,
Form: List



In the Library- For Contest
In the library - for contest

Books are the ever- burning lamps
Of knowledge and wisdom....
It 's  a well-established truth and I
also nod in full agreement...
But...

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© Anu Nayak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cogito, art, beauty, blessing, books,
Form: Free verse
De-Skirt's
Cogito 
Ergo
Sham

I think
Therefore
I Clown



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(Msr. Rene, for humor's sake, I hope you're not turning on your grave    :o)...

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Categories: cogito, satire, war
Form: Limerick
Knowledge and Science
Milton’s Paradise Lost is a book I sometimes dip into. For modern 
readers it does not lend itself to a quick browse. It’s pretty clear...

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Categories: cogito, bible, poems, science,
Form: Free verse
Equanimity
When equanimity falls to the wayside
And the eyes empirically survey the hillside,
It’s Einstein’s time that I can’t bide,
Mawkish mental masturbation adroitly I chide,
Thy self,
Then my...

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© Toni Orban  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cogito, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Ode To the Failure of Modern Philosophy To Defeat Skepticism
Poor ol’ Pyrrho, he’s the hero
Of my somber poetry:
Couldn’t figure how to pick your
Core beliefs with certainty.

Bold Descartes, he got the party
Started with his Cogito.
Up...

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© Ed Morris  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cogito, funny, humor, humorous, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Villanelle: the Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 64
Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 64

Cogito ergo sum: I LIE therefore I AM
Even if I lie Nothing’s more certain than Death
Not Birth Not...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cogito, death, judgement, nature, violence,
Form: Villanelle
Why Doesn'T He Speak
—Our days of no beginning and no end—

When a giant thinker who wandered in the wilderness of meditation 
for a long time came to find...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cogito, god, men, philosophy,
Form: Narrative
Who Am I
Rene Descartes popularized
The phrase: Cogito ergo sum-
I think therefore I am. How wise!
If I’m thinking, then it’s presumed
That I exist because of “I”
The one doing...

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Categories: cogito, philosophy
Form: Verse
Premium Member Lo and Behold
Predictions work in twists of what makes life workable
High and often misconstrued by the dogma of science
Lies and damned lies and statistics for the insecure
Foes...

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Categories: cogito, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
I Think Therefore
Rene Descartes said “Cogito ergo sum”
“I think therefor I am”.
Consciousness of being is true regardless our reality, be it
corporeal, digital or mechanical.
We may live in...

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© Jg Collins  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cogito, art,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Shattered Sighs