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Best Unenlightened Poems

Below are the all-time best Unenlightened poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of unenlightened poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member For Straight White Boys Only
Have you seen a Rockwell 1950's Lemonade Wars?
Two girls, both white of course,
dressed for YoungRepublican success
scowling at each other on a pristine deserted street
of the...

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Categories: unenlightened, culture, health, humanity, humor,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Fling Words
You fling words
with the same concern
as skimming stones
offhandedly 
and
unenlightened 
not once
recognizing 
the escalating consequences 
upon the delicate ecosystems 
of the human psyche...

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Categories: unenlightened, hurt, society, vanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Queen's Slippers - Part 1
Look at the eyes, windows of the soul.
Then the intent, link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc9En9WUzI8







"The Queen's Slippers - Part 1"




There is an owl it perches
on my heart
digs it’s...

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Categories: unenlightened, imagery, life, love, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Permacultural Trust
The organic building of a coordinated artist
begins with reconstructing competitively clumsy LeftBrain technicians.

Whether learning to play the piano
or learning to communicate in some new language
or...

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Categories: unenlightened, art, birth, bullying, earth
Form: Political Verse
Let Me Play the Piano
So unenlightened
A curious girl,
So much
I want to know
So much
I don't understand-
Everything's
A mystery of
Profound
Magnitude
How did I 
Come to be here?
So in awe...
Such suspense, 
An 'any minute'
Hell
Go...

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Categories: unenlightened, childhood, passion,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Enabled Empathy
It's weird
and sometimes wild
living with a non-LeftBrain verbal dominant
aspiring child,
now young adult

I find myself waiting for him
to nonverbally connect
and correct me
about my patriarchal domineering
economic and...

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Categories: unenlightened, culture, health, humor, identity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
The Price of Freedom
I feel the need to share with you the beauty that I see
In this land we call America - the gift my fathers left to...

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© Jan Pearce  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unenlightened, america, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Healthy Aside Benefits
Social distancing,
including global apartheid,
brings us to Zoom
into each Other, virtually,

More virtuously win/win
or uncivilly win/lose?

For remote educational,
advocacy,
organizing and planning
social communication
reading
and exercise
and meditation
prayer
and therapeutic circles,

Religious
and secular humanitarian
win/win...

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Categories: unenlightened, earth, health, light, mother,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Seasons of Enlightenment
The original Independence declarations
of the late 1700s
were born from a West European colonizing
and North American creolizing immigration wave
knowing and exploring a God of EnLightenment,
opposed to...

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Categories: unenlightened, culture, earth, god, health,
Form: Political Verse
Stroke-Out In a Rant
i do the dance of circumstance  
my brain react to a simple Mercenaries attack 
red, leaky, small vain, and poison pains 
what great planing
makes...

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Categories: unenlightened, confusion, education, war, me,
Form: I do not know?
Living
In the face of all words
The smile still
An unenlightened dog's cell!
 
From "Inland"...

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Categories: unenlightened, dark, dog, life, lonely,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Watering Gaian Grace
One of the least talked about,
yet most problematic issues
for regenerating  

Global
social-psychological
mental and physical
health and public safety
movements

Well fed and watered
to empower and enlighten interfaith
action and...

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Categories: unenlightened, caregiving, community, earth day,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Breaking Through Nationalism
Yuval Noah Harari
suggests that Nationalism's
Big Three Nemeses are fear of
nuclear holocaust,
degenerative climate trends,
and Business As Usual disruptions 
of eco-politically salvific technology.

When I first read this...

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Categories: unenlightened, caregiving, earth, health, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Restoring Earthhealth
"America's health care system
is neither healthy,
caring,
nor a system."
Walter Cronkite

An organic system,
an interdependent co-governing web
of relationships between communicating subsystems,

To be resilient,
to remain robust,
must be win/win cooperative...

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Categories: unenlightened, caregiving, community, conflict, earth,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member At My Best
She told someone that my verse was lacking
It failed to stir her idea of inspiration and feeling
Kept her waiting for the spontaneous ending
Left her with...

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Categories: unenlightened, blessing, christian, forgiveness, freedom,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things