God's Air
...Imagine that someone wants to argue against the existence of air
All the while breathing in air
The Catholics have the Mitered Buffoon
They say Protestants have the “Paper Pope” too
Immanuel Kant...
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Categories:
jean paul sartre, allegory, celebrity, christian, god,
Form: Free verse
Outside Looking Inn
...Hiding again from the dazzling sun
Why am I here, I’ve no clue
There’s no necessity to walk around
No urgent business to do
Sounds like I’m killing the time, but I’m not
It is exactly the opposi...
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Categories:
jean paul sartre, england, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Twilight
..."There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn
and taken away from us at dusk." ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
It’s a twilight time
and a veil of serenity
descends ...
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Categories:
jean paul sartre, nature,
Form: Free verse
A Waste of Space
...I balance my illicitly obtained bottle of absinthe from a man who knows a man, for an exorbitant amount of Euros, on the worn wooden windowsill of my topmost room at the rundown pension overlooking t...
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Categories:
jean paul sartre, culture, introspection, literature, metaphor,
Form: Prose
From the Window
...Last night
it was a whispering wind
All the windows
I had left open
An impressive poetry
of the wind in
the mosquito net
So said Jean-Paul Sartre
With your geometry
I was doing red and blue
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Categories:
jean paul sartre, morning,
Form: Free verse
Tuan Tata: Song of Uda - Parts One and Two
... TUAN TATA : Song of Uda - I
by T. Wignesan
(Patrick Noone, a British anthropologist, discovered the Ple-Temiar tribe living isolated in the jungle highlands in the State of Perak on the west ...
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Categories:
jean paul sartre, death, murder, tiger, wife,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Ground To Pieces
...‘Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces’
John Ruskin, 1853
they had crushed the bevelled mirror of his life into a tho...
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Categories:
jean paul sartre, change,
Form: Free verse
Zen Dog Day
...ZEN DOG DAY
DOG:
A’m jest trucking on down the road
Hangin loose got no heavy load
[Stops in middle of road and proceeds to scratch every part known to man or dog]
Motorist behind blows horn...
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Categories:
jean paul sartre, animal, philosophy,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Villanelle: Who's Afraid of Virgin Wolf's Wisdom Tooth
...Villanelle: Who's afraid of the Virgin Wolf's wisdom tooth
(As unlikely as it may sound, this happens to be the TRUTH: the foremost French journalist, André FONTAINE of Le Monde; an illustrious...
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Categories:
jean paul sartre, anti bullying, betrayal, family,
Form: Villanelle
The Call of the Alpha Male
...Robin Hood, man in tights
Julius Caesar, might makes right
Alexander, called "the Great"
Sitting Bull, righteous hate
Robert the Bruce, Attila the Hun
Charlemagne, Napoleon
Hear the c...
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Categories:
jean paul sartre, funny, hero, humorous, men,
Form: Light Verse
To Have Do-Be-Do
..."To do is to be" - Descartes
"To be is to do" - Voltaire
"Do be do be do" - Frank Sinatra
"To do is to be" - Nietzche
"To be is to do" - Kant
"Do be do be do" - Sinatra
"To do is to be" - Jean-Pa...
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Categories:
jean paul sartre, devotion, fantasy, funny, people,
Form: I do not know?
Wheelie Bins Know What You'Re Thinking
...Wheelie bins know what you’re thinking
Deep down you know it’s true
They know just what you did last night
And they are judging you
And if you think you see them smirk
When you are walking pas...
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Categories:
jean paul sartre, funnybetrayal,
Form: I do not know?