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Enlightenment Poems - Poems about Enlightenment

Premium Member Mandrake and Other Temptations
I sat where the ferns stood guard— solemn sentries on wood pedestals— my back pressed against her bookcase, cradled in the soft hush of the window seat as snow rehearsed its silence just beyond the glass. Like a priestess reading spells I turned the musty pages of her herbal catalog— wild ginger, mandrake, devil’s claw, some deadly and some to heal— and I whispered their names...

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Categories: enlightenment, bible, childhood, imagery, international,
Form: Free verse
Aspiration towards elusive apotheosis of enlightenment
Aspiration towards elusive apotheosis of enlightenment... analogous to where the fountainhead of knowledge gushes forth unstoppable as a result after Atlas shrugged his head and shoulders loosing bits of esoteric material (and hairs - i.e. fluff as the spouse would say caught up in the shower drain) handy dandy blue's clues deemed more valuable then fine spun gold retrieved with tweezers filaments randomly stitched into indestructible raiment and remaining threads woven into...

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Categories: enlightenment, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Flashbulb Moment
Flashbulb moment in the black Everyone frozen in a truth attack You learn who justifies means from ends You learn your enemies and your friends. You look for an anchor in a bible psalm But there's chaos in your brain from blast of this bomb A moment that divides the right from the wrong A moment not imagined in ancient song. (chorus) Flashbulb night,...

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Categories: enlightenment, angst, betrayal, evil, humanity,
Form: Lyric
Purple Dreams In Other Realms
Once upon a magical evening an enchanted fairy I happened to see, dressed in a fantastical dress with two dappled wings of lace, she shone like the midnight sun; I must confess, she looked rather whimsical, sitting there by a green wooden door, waiting for your lore! Her eyes sparkled with spiritual wisdom, lips trembled a whisper of secrets, She...

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Categories: enlightenment, angel, dream, fairy, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Here we go again
Here we go again Back to chaos’ den Emotions stretched abound Spirits are being drowned Yet another test Stressed no rest Pressing my vest Nest of pests Nowhere to hide Noone to bride Embrace the tide Time to ride Living is ripping Praying for blessing Singing while stinging Bathing in beating We’ve been here before Scars from past gore Roaring while being sore Crying for no more Get used to the downpour We must make...

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Categories: enlightenment, angst, anxiety, hope,
Form: Rhyme



Thyself
Anxiety and shame riddled my youth and I just wanted to belong The desire to excel and conform was beyond measure The painful difficulties of youth are rarely validated Being told to follow your hero but blaze your trail Follow the shadow but color inside the lines Neverendingly seeking the rightly wise I finally woke up one day and...

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Categories: enlightenment, angst,
Form: Free verse
Mahabodhi Temple Protest
buddha the light of asia the beacon of peace revered around the world confined by some radicals in his own enlighten abode shackled in superstitious principals he broke away from preaching against blind faith encouraging open mind to question all and everything not even sparing him to accept something only after examining on self realization and scientific fact so hear this plea if it appeal to humanity with no intent...

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Categories: enlightenment, emotions, forgiveness, grief, humanity,
Form: Ballad
Message To The Blackman
If slavery was a choice, as some have agreed, then what are we? If watching your father and mother endure rape or murder was a choice, Then why do we sit on idle hands, while Trump eradicates our posterity’s opportunities, As if they were written in sand? If not being able to read was a choice, Then why do you...

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Categories: enlightenment, africa, black love, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member ENLIGHTENMENT My SpokenWord
ENLIGHTENMENT I am encased in the Darkness asleep But we are the light Nightmarish skin get their dreams I flourish Still better encased then I a light glow plight Soar we shine bright Both night and day light Enlightenment I walk in light I speak forth light I am light for the God in me... Bright beam Though a pin drop Sight stop Enlightenment...

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Categories: enlightenment, analogy, appreciation, devotion, environment,
Form: Spoken Word
Premium Member the blinding age of enlightenment
When neutron stars collide they unleash immense energy plasma jets, creating conditions extreme enough to produce heavy elements like gold, A single collision can generate gold equivalent to several Earth masses, outshining entire galaxies in the process; An armageddon of brilliance may well one day fill the heavens ...

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Categories: enlightenment, extended metaphor, humanity, perspective,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Climbing The Ladder Of Enlightenment
Climbing The Ladder Of Enlightenment All the realizations of yesterday is how we live today Of all the lesson presented through time can we achieve and make our way If but a small slip a lesson is missed another attempt shall come back our way Through God's gracious gifts his love shall bring bliss as we climb the...

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Categories: enlightenment, blessing, encouraging, endurance, first
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Enlightenment
The dawn of true liberation Is the timeless moment When the delusion of duality Has been completely extinguished. And then? Whatever the next moment brings. (1/27/25)...

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Categories: enlightenment, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Enlightenment in an instant
Held captive in space and taunted by time, impressions graze soul as senses entwine, where recognition dawns betwixt love’s chime, in that instant when head and heart align. Blink and we’ll miss it, that flicker in space, beheld if our ego, we but let go, whereupon the veil lifts admitting grace, revealing our being, pristine like snow. Soundless thunder rising from down under, lights...

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Categories: enlightenment, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member How I Look
I see how I look inside out, not how I look outside in. My Amtrak races between mountains and rivers, my traces, my inner spaces, my dawnings, my inner longings. I see how I look inside out, not how I look outside in. I leaf through fading pages of crumbling books bound with passion strings, broken by wounded fissures of regret. I see how I...

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Categories: enlightenment, deep, destiny, identity, introspection,
Form: Free verse
The buddha meets christmas
Iam Gautama buddha, ...

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Categories: enlightenment, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

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