Best Philosophizing Poems

Our yesterday; reality
Our today; possibility
Our tomorrow; dream

Plant tomorrow's dream
Into yesterday's fertile soil
And harvest today!






© Demetrios Trifiatis
  24 September 2022...

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People like to analyze what they do,
Hoping to discover just who they are. 
It's one way to see our species anew 
Like little groups, we...

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Retiring, they ask me
What do you do now
For a living that is

I'm a Philosopher, I say
Social Security encouraged me
They say, is there money in it

I...

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Straitened are the times
And tight is my pocket.
A glass of brandy
Consumed with contemplation
Is a hard bargain
As speculators have poured in
Shouting “buy,” “buy,” “buy.”
 
Since the...

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A dumb officemate landed a promotion but not me,
it's alright, it was not based on good looks anyway.

I am grossly underpaid but come to think...

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Dearest Poets:

At times, I must admit, not pleased with 
the results of my work.
I just want to shred them feeling like 
a poetic jerk.

What's the point of all...

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Athena
the dutiful daughter standing behind her father
in lightning thick with aegis assurance
read to protect her family
and counselling them times of need

Athena, the grey eyed goddess
who...

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FREEDOM SONG

Do you know the path to freedom,
do you know the road to peace,
do you know the value of truth and wisdom -
let’s bind our...

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Epigrams by Michael R. Burch

If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity 
are the whole of it.
—Michael R. Burch

To write an epigram, cram.
If...

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Raindrops in the heartland of soul
sweet pain, draining slow,
light emerging from chains of darkness,
which seem to suddenly glow.

Sleeping, eyes wide open,
dreaming, chasing the reality,
philosophizing a...

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HAIKU
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

the light of day
the darkness of night
twenty-four hours

a moment in time
one blink... total darkness
a bat does not care

o summer sunshine
fourteen hours... joy... heaven
then you got...

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Listen in,
We tend wallow in the hatred we swallow,
it cuts us deep to the core and leaves us empty and hollow,
so we look for someone...

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I set out on a quest today,
Compelled to write a poetic story,
I thought perhaps I’d write about,
The mind in its’ infinite glory,
While philosophizing life
I wondered,...

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A curse upon the gods to break

How to become an enlightened player 101

something to study and pick apart
A royal Joke of political actors
surrounding one fool
teaching...

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Druid
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