Long Maxims Poems
Long Maxims Poems. Below are the most popular long Maxims by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Maxims poems by poem length and keyword.
Following Earth's Light
Borrowing from David Holmgren, Permaculture Principles and Pathways Beyond [Win-Elite v Lose-NonElite] Sustainability, 2002, p. 1
Health ethics are Beloved Community normative principles
used to guide action toward good and light and right outcomes
and away from degeneratively...
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maxims, creation, destiny, earth day, environment, health, humanity,
Form:
Political Verse
K373 and K374 of the Thirukkural Translated With Commentary
K373 and K374 of the THIRUKKURAL: Translated with Commentary
The poet's name, THIRUVALLUVAR [Thiru = Sacred and Valluvar = the name of the priesthood caste of the « Pariah » (whom Mahatma Gandhi prefered to call...
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maxims, appreciation, bible, christian, fate, philosophy, tamil,
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Couplet
Niitthaar Perumai, the Fundamental Role of the Ascetic, Canto 3 of the Thirukkural By Thiruvalluvar
Niithaar Perumai, the Fundamental Role of Ascetics, Canto 26 of the Thirukkural, the Tamil Classical Treatise on Ethics, Translation and Commentary by T. Wignesan
[Given the scarcity of information (mostly conflicting even then) on the...
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maxims, education, humanity, life, philosophy, retirement, tamil,
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Epigram
K169 and K170 of Canto Xvii of the Thiruk-Kural With Translations and Commentary
K169 and K170 of CANTO XVII of the THIRUK-KURAL with Translations and Commentary
[If one could put together all that has been said, written and published on the Thiruk-Kural and on its progenitor Thiru-Valluvar, it could...
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maxims, bible, evil, hate, jealousy, people, tamil,
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Epigram
Book Three of the Thiruk-Kural On Un-Authorised and Authorised Love: Canto 109, K109 To 133
Book Three of the THIRUK-KURAL on Un-Authorised (concealed) and Authorised (religion-ordained) LOVE: Cantos 109 THAGAIANANGKURAITHTHAL to 133
(Note: Love between mainly the wedded pair from the standpoint of the fair liana-like “lady” of the pliant bamboo-shoulders,...
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maxims, beauty, loneliness, men, sensual, tamil, women,
Form:
Epigram
Thirukkural: Translation of Canto Xxxviii With Commentary
THIRUKKURAL: Translation of Canto XXXVIII with notes and commentary
Canto XXXVIII of the Thirukkural on the topic of FATE which I give here in translation (by stages) forms, in itself, a separate "book" in its own...
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maxims, fate, humanity, life, nature, riddle, wisdom,
Form:
Couplet
Medieval Poetry Translations VI by Michael R Burch
These are English translations/modernizations of Medieval poems written in Old English and Middle English.
Exeter Book Gnomic Verses or Maxims
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
The dragon dwells under the dolmen,
wizened-wise, hoarding his treasure;
the fishes bring forth...
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Categories:
maxims, fish, husband, love, ocean, sea, wife, winter,
Form:
Free verse
Undo Unmake
But breakfast’s subject beckons:
the booster affair effect in Tumblr-
land? The digital map surveillance
co-sponsor the soccer mom sauce
minivan project, relay & speech
to cell battery fiasco. Batteries
have lives too, reads the cloud script.
FML maxims...
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Categories:
maxims, allegory,
Form:
Rhyme
Maxims
There are some who say that marriage is old-school and out of style…
Yet single-parent families still devastate the child.
Some claim that the old writers are problematic, their works should burn…
But human nature doesn’t change and...
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maxims, culture, philosophy, political, repetition, society, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Alexander Pushkin translations by Michael R Burch
Habit is Heaven's tame redress:
it tugs down the skirts of Happiness.
—Alexander Pushkin, translation by Michael R. Burch
Till, conquered by gusts of cold air,
as Winter approaches, I find,
on a branch that is otherwise bare,
trembling, a leaf...
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maxims, dream, heaven, life, love, trust, winter, words,
Form:
Free verse
King Alfred the Great modern English translations by Michael R Burch
KING ALFRED THE GREAT MODERN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
King Alfred the Great (circa 849-899) was the first English king to be a notable scholar, poet and translator. Alfred has been credited with translating Latin works of Boethius...
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Categories:
maxims, earth, rose, song, stars, sun, time, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
If Only I Could
Maxims for eyes, a cast of racing clouds, and a sky
What else could be wrapped in lexical display?
Climate crises, inflation, and dire behest worry me
Pale-blue slicing of an idle cul-de-sac and apathy
Seldom do I feel...
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maxims, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, character,
Form:
Rhyme
Whispers of Unwritten Absence
Written: September 18, 2023
Unwritten Absence Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Ink Empress
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In the absence of ink—in a nexus of poetic dreams,
Anathematized by disconsolate...
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maxims, analogy, appreciation, dream, extended metaphor, miracle, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
The Careful Dissemination of Funds
I hear their idle chatter and wish that sound was optional.
A box checked in a menu, a simple click and forget.
The rapid dilation of my pupils brings me back.
Back to hypnotic aisles of temptation and...
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maxims, computer-internet, funny, life, people, philosophy, political, social,
Form:
Prose Poetry
More Maxims
Man cannot be woman,
woman cannot be man,
if man thinks he is woman,
he is already damned.
We all have opinions,
estimations and thoughts,
but if God says otherwise,
our feelings matter naught.
Trying to live by feeling
is a failing of youth,
the...
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Categories:
maxims, how i feel, life, people, philosophy, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Bittersweet Reverie
My soul's eyes look upon the past,
and see hers meet mine for the first time;
I watch as our love's die is cast,
as the bells signaling our fates chime.
I watch as the fires within us ignite,
as...
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Categories:
maxims, depression, loss, lost love, love, nostalgia, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
Crack House of the 13 Gables
I wrote a great book, part memoir, part novel
Shopped it around, I ain’t too proud to grovel
Got kicked upstairs to a big publishing head
He invited me in, and here's what was said:
This screed you call...
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maxims, angst, humor, humorous, self, uplifting,
Form:
Rhyme
Sophia's Abc Masquerade Ball
Sophia's ABC Masquerade Ball
A masquerade ball of wisdom’s wisdom in a wink and a smile
Blessings in disguise –uncovered - not hidden in plain sight
Costume ball for aha moments comfortable in their own skin
Dancing discernments so...
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Categories:
maxims, dance, wisdom,
Form:
ABC
Through dreams in purple and infinity, where ceaseless yearning throbs
Through dreams in purple and infinity, where ceaseless yearning throbs,
A voracious dance of constellations, through my veins relentlessly flows,
It's an ode of bodies, igniting with touches, in boundless love aglow,
And each whispering of fingers murmurs...
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Categories:
maxims, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Philosophy G700d - I Kant Prove God
Immanuel Kant, changed the spelling of his name from Emmanuel to "Immanuel" to accord with its Hebrew meaning: "God is with us." So, this quintessential Enlightenment thinker - and Thomas Jefferson a little after...
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maxims, america, appreciation, bible, god, jesus, perspective, philosophy,
Form:
Didactic
Why Weep For a Winner -
They approached me in an inconspicuous way
as quaint & confusing disillusionments do,
saying, " Hello, you're the best - "
I replied reluctantly,
" Thats why I weep every night - " ,
crying like a...
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Categories:
maxims, character,
Form:
Didactic
Pruned
Are we going to be pruned now like limbs left exposed naked to the elements?*
He is just a simple man
born and raised in middle America,
loves God, country, family and apple pie,
but raising his voice in...
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Categories:
maxims, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Categories:
maxims, bible, deep, emotions, faith, gospel, life, spiritual,
Form:
Sonnet
Apollo's Maxims
Apollo,
God of prophecy, music and eloquence
Had advised Man two things he had to do
In order the truth of things to discover
And as a result to see the world anew:
"Know Thyself" and " Nothing in...
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Categories:
maxims, god, men, truth,
Form:
Quatrain
Bleak Fields
In a cold bleak field, a soldier lay dying.
There were others around him, Who also were crying, -
The medics had already tried to gain ground,
But the incessant chatter of maxims and mausers,
That chewed up the...
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Categories:
maxims, world war i,
Form:
Verse