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Finitude Poems - Poems about Finitude

Finitude Poems - Examples of all types of poems about finitude to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for finitude.
The Calmness of the Heart - Part II
...Don’t believe what everyone believes But what you understand Don’t be part of an entirety Which is not part of yourself Dare to dream and to disappoint Don’t do what is expected from you But wh......Read the rest...
Categories: finitude, hate, love, truth, wisdom,
Form: Free verse



The Finitude of Death and Life
...I am overjoyed over our mortality. Because if we were immortal, I wouldn't feel the need to hold your hand. I wouldn't feel the need to love you every day in fear that tomorrow I won't be able to. If......Read the rest...
Categories: finitude, love,
Form: Free verse
To Ilse
...She made beauty a birthright, my Ilse. Her rosy cheeks, rouge unneeded, shadowed her dark eyes. I was impressed by her, depraved by her, all at once humiliated for her. A hunger lingered insi......Read the rest...
Categories: finitude, longing, love, lust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Exit Ramp
... The exit ramp looms large just up ahead, though still an unknown distance ‘round the bend, a terminus of sorts. Perhaps a point from which to send us out of time constraints, into the n......Read the rest...
Categories: finitude, death, time,
Form: Other
The Amalgam of Pain
...I am concerned with the structures that sustain the universe, with the mighty river of time, the tablature and the compass of souls dispersed in their endless penances, the enigmatic smile......Read the rest...
Categories: finitude, allegory,
Form: Free verse



Boy
...What obstacle can there be between a boy and infinity? Behind the old brick house, among countless fig and persimmon trees, next to the concrete cistern and under a beautiful bright summer sky,......Read the rest...
Categories: finitude, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Deicide
...'cause some of us have had enough of this hell some search heaven for redemption and she too but more for being disgusted and when she up there arrived stabbed to death the deity and on the ......Read the rest...
Categories: finitude, death, god, woman,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumnal Visions
...arrival of the penultimate season... falling toward the end of the year cool breezes purge the sultry sloth amber/auburn/crimson leaves dance in the wind fall foliage signals t......Read the rest...
Categories: finitude, autumn, life, nature, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Infinite Bounds
...Infinity overspreads her ineffable bounds as finitude struggles below on the ground Disparate features burst forth exponential worshipers gasp ~ essence's multi-dimensional......Read the rest...
Categories: finitude, imagination, space,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Vast Variety of Race
...Civilizations used white to mitigate the lack of black. Black is not just skin color but also a human spirit. Imagine indigenous people having red skin plaque!! While things seem d......Read the rest...
Categories: finitude, analogy, confusion, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Other Faiths
...Some say you are lost If you are not found On their ground Some think you are blind If you do not find What they find I am an atheist who believes The universe is a tapestry Not a threa......Read the rest...
Categories: finitude, atheist, caregiving, community, how
Form: Free verse
Tolere
...Tolerância Na década que termina e na década que há de vir exercite-se sempre exercite a tolerância. Tolerância não é passividade. Ao contrário do amor ou da generosidade, que não têm li......Read the rest...
Categories: finitude, business,
Form: Free verse
When Money Becomes Your God
...A prayer is like seduction to your soul Your church is the glamour the world bestowals Your bible is the flashy neon lights and billboards Your truth is the multiplicity of greedy Your salvation ......Read the rest...
Categories: finitude, atheist, bible, class, god,
Form: Free verse
Feelings Apart
...Tired sea Frustrated moon Fed up wind Disenchanted sun The hour of grace is fading Beyond the eyes can see Darkness glow in taciturn Beneath the scars a beauty egress apace I've search to ......Read the rest...
Categories: finitude, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Entitled
...Entitled If You Listen All Will Be Silent The Apocryphal Dance begins at Midnight and becomes a Night Song But/If You Go There take Money Time Eats Your Words and you’ll Leave Something U......Read the rest...
Categories: finitude, language,
Form: Free verse

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