Best Philosophical Poems

Every day's a question mark
And from the time that we embark 
Each hour keeps us in the dark
Of what may yet be waiting.

We stumble forward like the blind,
Aware that what we're like to find
May not be what we had in mind
(And maybe even hating).

For nothing's...

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The road ahead
Leads to the future
Earth shattering...

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I deny Socrates.
I don’t know that I don’t know.
But I believe it.

I deny Descartes.
I am, not because I think.
But I believe  it....

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Philosophers, down the ages,  
Have strenuously tried
To figure out language:
Their numerous narratives polarize 
Into two Grand narratives, a binary:
Language is referential / differential.
This binary has yielded numerous derivatives.

On the referential side, for instance, 
There’s the view that language is an instrument, 
As advanced notably...

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I am a misprint,
Ink blot on love,
I remain a maybe
Longing for fact,
No speck of lint,
A hand in glove.
Thunder; a baby
Will only react

When you etch
Parallel clouds,
Whistling on cue
To a dead town.
Dream a sketch
Of silent crowds
Becoming you,
This boiling crown

Chews thought
Into flagellation.
Holes in the walls
To spy through,
Seeking a...

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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 in scriptures and prayers,
The moderns doubted you in so many facts and proofs.

Absolute truth 
     your...

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For My Children
-	Daniel Henry Rodgers

As dawn's first blush ignites the eastern sky—a cool
Caress of dew upon the breeze—and the birds' serenade
Pierces the silence, their notes ascending high.

The mist, like a spectral ballet, pirouettes, twirling
In the light. And the flowers, in their resplendent array,
Bloom, banishing the...

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Be the clown,go on, turn the world upside down.
Be the one, who never thinks deeply or on humanity frowns.

Be above it all, hide your heart all you can.
You, who are so superior to the feelings of the family of man.

Be strong, grind your teeth.
Hide from...

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it isn't what it is
it is what it isn't

a window                                 
a prism ...

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Beyond the Realm of Wishes
In sun-scorched dunes 
beside a weathered sentinel 
a glint ensnared his weary gaze.
A tarnished lamp / 
grazed / its secrets unknown / 
a genie unbound.... 
a muted haze.

Three worldly desires danced like tempting fruit, ambition's flame, 
    ...

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The Salon of Forbidden Ideas
is a place where the free-thinkers go
to express their unsanctioned opinions
and explore what they aren't meant to know...

At twilight, they slip through the shadows
of the alley 'twixt Far-Left and Right,
wearing black masks and cloaks of red satin,
bearing lanterns of unfiltered light.

The...

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What’s the worst thing that can happen?
As you go through daily life.

What’s the worst thing that can happen?
With the troubles in your life.

What’s the worst thing that can happen?
As my father used to say!

What’s the worst thing that can happen?
We will all find out one...

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Embers in the Wind and Threads 
for Tomorrow.
In the rising fog of the New Year let burdens 
take flight.
As failures lift like morning dew under the sun's 
gentle touch.
Let them drift away carried by dreams dissolving 
into the horizon.

Unbind societal shackles like chains rusted by...

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Swirling words from an infinite field,
caught and thought in a moment of time.
Knowing not their future or their yield,
their full potential may be sublime.

Allow yourself a time to reflect,
give your thoughts the freedom to expand.
It won’t take long for them to connect,
piece them together the...

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In the winds, old histories tossed, 
To speak of it, freedom that’s lost,
From the hill tops Dostoevsky screams aloud, 
Lost their God indeed, the proud.

Much can’t say but, tis I tell,
Where is this, that conflicts burst?
Stomachs pinch and throats dost thirst,
Justice they say but, lawless...

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