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Premium Member May It Be An Evening Star of Peace - In Collaboration With Our Ps Community Poets
Like the Evening Star guided ancient mariners through calm or troubled seas
Let it guide and help spread this message of Peace to the far ends...

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Categories: philosophic, beautiful, peace, star,
Form: Verse



I Wish It Could Be
This emptiness within surrounds the insides
Penetrating my sorrows, I see the light
A light so faded and sad…as if it knows my lamentation
This light dies to...

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Categories: philosophic, appreciation, blue, desire, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Far Better Farah
I am consumed by the beauty of your words
Stolen by the smiles of your lingering languages
And imprisoned by reality, as I walked through your world...

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Categories: philosophic, fantasy, inspirational, passion, world,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Slides and Stairways
Somewhere in the pretty petty imaginary illusion of delusion
There lies a truth an edifice of search between obtuse confusion

Windows like brick walls and concrete blocks...

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Categories: philosophic, home, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Poetry Is Poetry
I thought poetry is
-name of Mesopotamia which was the first civilization to emerge in human history
-ancient cave peoples surviving life struggle 

I thought poetry is
-an...

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Categories: philosophic, feelings, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Glimpses of You
Glimpses of you…
An image so mesmerizing, I bask in shame to rely on these bedazzled eyes
So full of wisdom and heart, your globes keep me...

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Categories: philosophic, beauty, conflict, courage, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Showtime
"Turn on the television",
Says an angel munching popcorn,
At the end of each century
"What are the humans up to?"

15th Century:
Columbus exploring lands on unending voyages
Enchanting symphonies...

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Categories: philosophic, world,
Form: Free verse
Traveller
highway grinding
myway finding
        mental meanderings
philosophic ideals
     mirrorly miles
      ...

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Categories: philosophic, introspection, peace, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Creativity
Robert’s crafted a fine form
of poetry we will sup
drink from philosophic cup
his creativity’s now reborn.


Form "Lind30"...

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Categories: philosophic, poems, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To Have Loved Mary
Today is Sunday and I'm going to the ocean
or maybe not. Definitely not doing the laundry
or maybe I will. Moss and even a small tree
grow...

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Categories: philosophic, city, love, ocean, philosophy,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Anatomy of a Kural: Maxim 245 of the Thirukkural By Thiruvalluvar
The Anatomy of a Kural: Maxim Number 245 (taken at random) of the Thirukkural, the Tamil Classic on Ethics by Thiruvalluvar 

allal arulaalvaarkku illai valivalangum

mallalmaa...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: philosophic, education, metaphor, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Niitthaar Perumai, the Fundamental Role of the Ascetic, Canto 3 of the Thirukkural By Thiruvalluvar
Niithaar Perumai, the Fundamental Role of Ascetics, Canto 26 of the Thirukkural, the Tamil Classical Treatise on Ethics, Translation and Commentary by T. Wignesan 


[Given...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: philosophic, education, humanity, life, philosophy,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Love of Wisdom: Philosophy
Why isn't philosophy written most wisely
also poetic verse,
both-and analogical ecology?

While classic philosophic historians
continue this great debate
about which is most important,
truth or beauty?
this same political philosophy...

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Categories: philosophic, beauty, earth, environment, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Doctor's Sense of Humour
Stevie was a city boy, 
He wore an old school tie, 
His life was full of sex and booze 
And other things you buy. 

He...

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Categories: philosophic, life, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Even More Somewhat Twisted Thoughts of the Day
ON THE ROCKS
 
Talk about bad luck, I hit rock bottom and broke a leg
One advantage to hitting rock bottom is at least I know...

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Categories: philosophic, funny, me, day, horse,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs