Humankind Poems - Poems about Humankind

Humankind In an article, the question was what is the meaning of life? Many answers were about personal fulfillment and what made a person happy, but no one could answer that question. This I think is because we in the West are not religious, we do not believe in a God we are alone and...

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Humankind 8/9/2023 How oft’ have you been told, ...

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Our minds are a mirror's fragments now facing each other Reflecting rays of thoughts and passions from each ever-turning face Building a house named "Sympathy" built from those shaky beams Inspired by a passage from David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, Book 2, Section 5. "In general we may remark, that the minds of men are mirrors...

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So, how to end this senseless war You Russians have begun? No peace again until Ukraine Has smashed you, every one. We’ll give them lethal weaponry To fight our proxy war. We’ll empty out the corners of The Quartermaster’s store. But you don’t like it when we give them Weapons to fight back: Planes and tanks and howitzers, The heavy stuff they lack. You squeal and...

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Now you’re turning to the south To save your battered face, To claim some sort of victory By flattening the place. If soldiers cannot win your war You’ll bomb and you will shell: Blow everything to smithereens, Turn towns to living hell. Your army isn’t up to much: Fighting’s too much trouble. Instead, you bomb the place to bits, Reduce Ukraine to rubble. There is no place...

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War used to be some other place Out of sight and mind; But now we see on our tv The worst of humankind. An army has just marched across Another country’s border, Wreaking murder, unprovoked, And violent disorder. Are we so blind? We never learn. We’ve seen it all before: You say you come to keep the peace But all you bring is war. We had our...

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What we regard we might revere, the sense of it will not be clear without a setting in a phrase to show if it’s to deem or gaze, or natural esteem sincere. Is Earth our Mother or a mere resource for mortal profiteer? For as it’s seen, we’ll thus appraise what we regard. The stars look down with stare austere upon our customs cavalier, while moon...

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Give me a quite room with a pen and book Let me tie my shoes and reminisce about old school, Underneath these massive rocks of my mountainous youth Let me unleash the hidden truth. What will come after modified food? Let me meet the man behind the essence of this rule, In those mountains serving as mirrors To see those wonderful...

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Is there a stellar orb that’s last, beyond beyonds of cosmic vast? I can’t imagine such a thing, no matter where my thoughts take wing, for always there would be one more at least, if not an endless store. Yet let my flight of fancy soar, through door beyond the furthest door and plumb the muses’ reservoir where heavens’ portals are ajar by searching yon...

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The seven sisters’ supernal sight was by sailors stellarly prized in legendary dove-likened flight, catasterism immortalized. As mythical frieze empyreal they appear in stargazers’ view of the Pleiades ethereal fleeing in misty byways blue. They’ve lent the cosmos fabled luster ever since by the ancients found being the nearest open cluster astrally gravitation bound. The firmament they loftily graced brightly seen in nocturnal skies as by Orion the...

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A ‘superbubble’ called bizarre by some star watchers from afar albeit it known as N Four Four emission nebula with score or scores of stars midst gas aglow in Magellanic Cloud’s outflow with dusty lanes we dreamers stride inside the Cloud termed Large was spied. It seems a starry gap or hole is interrupting stellar stroll in upper central part of scene on Hubble’s vast depicted...

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The three coyotes Watched this all unfold Waiting for Sam to disappear They knew they had a half An hour Before the OSP would appear They pounced on Maria Snarling hungry scarfing her Drinking up her fresh blood Ripping her Up for dinner, Enjoying their unexpected venison feast. Jason the head coyote, told the others “Well, Sam might be a good guy, For a...

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Sam Adams Lived in Medford Oregon Where he ran a vacation home business And was part of the Ashland Chamber of Commerce Who were his adopted family One day he was out on the mountain highway Outside of town When tragedy occurred Out of the blue In the dark, on the way down the mountain… Sam side-swiped a young doe (deer). Sam wasn’t...

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Upon our stage we romp and rage in Goldilocks’s golden cage amongst colossal cosmic crowd with spark of liveliness endowed of pomp and circumstantial fate, whose worth we underestimate, in constant discontentment caught ‘and sicklied o’er in cast of thought so enterprises turn awry’, with not an inkling as to why. Oh actors in this earthly scene, what do your frantic antics mean? ‘The heartaches and the...

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