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Best Existential Poems

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Premium Member 12-31-23: A Number's Existential Crisis
'Twas the twilight of the year, a twinkling tiara,
December 31st, digits dancing dunes in the Sahara.
One, two, three, one, two, three, it's a prance,
A numerical...

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Categories: existential, celebration, hilarious, holiday, humor,
Form: Lyric



Existential Reprise
Before I scarred the page
Raging what your letters cannot invent
Let me invite you to other books
I wrote before you owed me wage
For all maladjustment and...

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Categories: existential, philosophyme, old, me, old,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Existential Essence
In the vast algorithmic wilderness, we search for truth...

In the chaos of digital existence,
we navigate the maze of virtual connections,
seeking answers in the pixels that
form...

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Categories: existential, culture, environment, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Moonlight
Painting by Edvard Munch, 1895: "Moon Light"

your soft hand trembles in mine
no words are spoken
we observe our ascending full moon 
as we have every month...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: existential, death, love, love hurts,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Absolute Truth: How Can it Be?
Absolute truth, both mystery… and paradox. 
“You make me wonder if you exist or not?”

The Greeks glimpsed you in circles and squares,
The medievals revered you...

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Categories: existential, faith, history, mystery, philosophy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Silver Solitude on Storm's Edge
I emerged with a silver pen in hand,
…and a tempest raging within.
Words writhe, a serpent's coil,
…tightening their grip,
A soul adrift in a sea of 
…self-made...

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Categories: existential, mental health, mental illness,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member An Existentialist Asks---What Is Life
What is life?

Euphonies, cacophonies and chromosomal anomalies
intertangled destinies and illusive methodologies 

Occurring in obscure dimensionless time
Millenniums fertilized to create the sublime

Perceived by ideations so pure...

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Categories: existential, how i feel, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cosmic Dust
Since time immemorial across the Universe—
Traces of my vapor, my dust trails, my footprints, my being
Light up the skies of innumerable planets etching themselves
Indelibly in...

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Categories: existential, adventure, beautiful, creation, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kiss of Death
Yesterday, I soared with the wind
Today, death and I dance entwined in a slow waltz
Somber mood as bright lights shine above
Wagner in the background of...

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Categories: existential, art, dark, death, horror,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eyes of Prophecy
You know how they say,'what will be will be'...
but what is it that will be?
What does the future hold
for me?
I wish somehow
it would all be...

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Categories: existential, future, love,
Form: Free verse
The Bare Infinitive and the Meaning of Life
THE BARE INFINITIVE

Look: up above the stratosphere 
Outside the earth's blanket veneer
Beyond planets stars and galaxy 
Past even faintest nebulae

Far from the pull of gravity
Free...

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Categories: existential, life,
Form: Rhyme
Flowers
Let my soul be laid bare
in the open air,
and let lovely flowers grow there....

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Categories: existential, august, beauty, creation, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unmasking the Script
In borrowed plumes, a masquerade we stage,
Thoughts echo doctrines, passions preordained.
From broken families, where fractured spirits weep,
Mothers of sorrow, 
With eyes that never sleep.

We inherit...

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Categories: existential, journey, life, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Coagulation
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Finally, my blood began to coagulate,
but my spiritual blood still spills from my poetic pen
like a razor has sliced upon the wrist of the cosmos.
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A...

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Categories: existential, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Time and Space
Time and space in deadlock
Time unlike the progression of a clock
Time dependent on interpretation
A linear cessation
Space dependent on mass
Triangulation through impasse
Portals of acquisition
An inner self...

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Categories: existential, space, time,
Form: Rhyme

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