Ignorance Is Bliss Poems

… where ignorance is bliss, / ‘Tis folly to be wise.*


Informed about the choices,
the mainstay o’ adulthood,
we often smother voices;
in good stead, they have stood.
Grapple with, analyse 
a destination grim:
a web of intrigue; lies
which we quote verbatim.
Some opportunities 
present itself...Read More

Lines of passion
Not in orderly fashion
I've been amongst the best
And still unmasked them
Ignorance is bliss
But still I show compassion...Read More

What if we knew
Where things would go
The depth of dysfunction 
To come as we grow

What if looking back 
Was, instead, up ahead
Once, witnessed, the pain
We’d become filled with dread

Could we handle the truth
Right there in one sitting
Would our destined commitments
Still...Read More

Fears Chains (Haiku)

First line 5 syllables
Second line 7 syllables
Third line 5 syllables
(7 syllables)

Caught within a snare
The paralyzing peepshow
Seduces you there
(Making itself intimate)
(undressing for your favor)
(Fairydust of lunacy)
Scrolls, parchments, bark, at the moon)
(Self fulfilling prophecy)
(Demons of rust in their swoon)

(Librarian with...Read More

The wispy trees roll by
row by row.
The gentle breeze of the air conditioning 
brushes against my cheeks
In the bright blue sky swallows sing freely

A meadow lies in peace.
Pure and holy.
Beautiful beyond belief
only nature can nurture such peace
away from our motions...Read More

Hope is woefully unknown. 
Dreams that last while I’m awake. 
My mind unstable and unsure. 
If I could see inside your head,
What would I find?
Is everything like you say?
Will everything be okay?
They say ignorance is bliss,
But I say it’s a...Read More

In singular, in blissful ignorance,
I happily existed in advance
of tasting blithely an ambiguous kiss.

My dear singularity, intact
complacent wholesomeness, what have they done:
a sweet saliva, a Chrysostom tongue,
the lips, a bit thin lips, to be exact,
a tricky smile, a quick eye...Read More

Knowledge is a skill you have to acquire
Understanding the way the world work
It something in life that every human require 
It's like breaking a cycle of curse 

Giving your opinion doesn't make you right
But there's something that's call stating fact
Instead...Read More

Ignorance is bliss.
No one will blend things
Into the bittersweet truth.
When everyone worships
Different things…
They bring in warships.
...Read More

Staying Focused
By: Tom Wright
8/23/2018

“Believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see,”
It’s said “We are only as blind as we want to be.”
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
Past experiences can’t be erased by...Read More

I always seem to lose whenever there's emotions attached 
been there and done that and I don't feel like going back 
From now on my heart is cold and ignorance is bliss
Now I'm living in a world where love doesn't...Read More

I have heard that
“Ignorance is bliss!”--then
why so many unhappy people?
Heard that “love is blind!”--
but have seen few service dogs
at weddings: And which came first?
I think the adage and not
the people...for surely
no conscious writer
would imagine such--
and no fine poet
would retrieve one
from...Read More

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When I hear the saying “Ignorance is bliss” 
It only makes me think that it is only temporary
Suddenly the ignorant realize their mistake and say what did I miss?
In reality it is only knowledge that gives a true feeling that...Read More

THIS THOUGHT THIS TIME
This is the time. To put forth in writing the words that plague my mind. An inevitable forthcoming of thoughts internally suppressed, I have thoughts that beg to be told from a spirit of dire unrest. I...Read More

Juneteenth… Justifiably they say ignorance is bliss. 
               No, it’s nothing to be proud of.
Ultimately unaware and unfamiliar, living in Canada 
    ...Read More

These are the days uncertainty is in our midst
although folks often claim ignorance is bliss
often these folks tend to wear rose colored glasses
ignoring the signs and the breaking news flashes

While other's shake their heads and ask why
as they digest the...Read More

25/04/2018
Sign Of The Times



Surely
Ignorance is bliss,
Going about
Not knowing
Of impending
Finality.
Times end.
Happy knowing
Each day
Together
Is special.
Messianic times.
Earnestly search your
Soul.


...Read More

Brexit Sonnet No. 39
‘Write Love For you?’
 

What can I write for my blighted Brexit dream,
My pen doth quiver but my mouse doth shrieketh more.
Can I write love for your once so golden gleam? 
Can I write love for my...Read More

I'll drink to that, three sheets in the wind, the Booze cruise                        Drinking like a fish, kicking...Read More

Human nature ain't it funny 
So caught up in the state of being 
We lose sight actually lost not seeing 
The mirror of life when clear isnt pretty 
Ignorance is bliss truth always bitter shitty 
The Lies We Tell and...Read More

In school it was all about Greek and Latin at a stretch it proposed
                          ...Read More

Some say that there are those without voices, 
So for them we must speak out. 
But what they do not realise is that our choices, 
Are the reason for the absence of their shout. 

For they do indeed scream and...Read More

I can't complain with all this grub I'm getting
from dawn's first crack until the sun's last setting.
I'm glad  to be the happy son of fate,
except for the fact I'm putting on some weight.
The people here all seem  ...Read More

To be aware is to know 
that I will be cared, feared, & sneered; 
But Ignorance is not knowing 
neither who, what, or where!
My awareness can move like a shifting gear!
My thoughts slowly get hazy, 
& suddenly become clear.
My Awareness...Read More