Best Treatise Poems

hellow fellow travelers,
i come to you from a far place in a small boat that i carved out of a tree from my fathers 
land that he planted before i was born-
so i am here
and with me is a bag of pearls
hard won from the...

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Canto I: The Words of Laozi  

The Divinely Illustrious Sage  
Prays for every soul to heed:
That neither woe nor weal
Heaven has foreordained,
But wrought by men alone,
The fruits of virtue and vice
Pursue the begetter like 
A shadow following the form!

Canto II: The Celestial Justiciars...

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If love is a chemical reaction in the 
brain
If attraction is simply chemistry
If the right substances binding and 
exploding,
Combining and conquering,
Coursing through my effervescent 
adolescent veins,
Conquering my conscious and 
unconscious actions,
Consuming and possessing me, 
caressing me,
Turning my blood against my better 
judgment,
Compelling me toward a...

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Jesus didn’t come to earth
With a great treatise
Instead He took a little child
And humbly sat him on his knees

‘Unless you become
Like such as these-
My kingdom you won’t see!

Those born of my spirit
Are to be like the breeze
Uncomplicated
They simply- just believe

Oh ye of little faith-
Consider the...

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i thank all for the warm welcome i have recieved here at poetry soup.
orphaniis of course an alter ego, through which i express my views .
writing poetry exposes us and makes us vulnerable to the pain of rejection ,and 
disapointment
i cannot be rejected becouse i...

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Life blooms from a flower
Like a book flipping open
Spilling sunflowers and roses
On memories in deep oceans.

Fires rage and blood red burns
Endless fields and inchoate urns
Unformed babes and solid tears
Time runs deep with timeless gears.

Death sprouts from a seed
Like a fountain sputtering
Spraying ink and deep grey...

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    Newspapers can be logs for the fire
        or non-functional rolling pins

    Obsolete as white-stockinged town criers
        along with typewriters ~ has-beens
...

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I SEARCH OF A DESTINY
BEYOND THE REACH
OF WHAT I KNOW
BRIGHT AS THE NEW DAY
THAT HOVERS OVER ME
LIKE AN AIRY CLOUD
THIS BITTERNESS
THAT LINGERS HERE
TAINTING MY HEART
CLOUDING MY EYES
THE FEAR THAT MAKES ME TREMBLE
AND SHAKE, THIS MESS I AM
CANNOT KEEP, CANNOT DRAG ME DOWN
IN SPITE OF THIS
I...

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Are My Words So Foreign Or Obtuse 
That You May Not, Within Them, See Truth? 
That We Live Together Within, 
While Without We Share, What May One Day, 
Become A Common View; 
A Mutual Love Born Beyond The Forming 
Of All Words. 
A View We...

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