Long Philosophy Poems
Long Philosophy Poems. Below are the most popular long Philosophy by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Philosophy poems by poem length and keyword.
Yellow winged angel I.
He was patient very-very
with child's tenderness in eyes
yellow winged angel's unwary,
He was living quiet in skies.
Without disputes, without roughness,...
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abuse, angel, angst, philosophy, solitude, yellow,
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I do not know?
EpigramsEpigrams by Michael R. Burch
If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity
are the whole of it.
—Michael R. Burch
To write an epigram, cram.
If you lack wit, scram!
—Michael R. Burch
Conformists of a feather
flock together.
—Michael...
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bible, metaphor, philosophy, poetry, wisdom, words, writing,
Form:
Epigram
Juvenilia: Early Poems VJuvenilia: Early Poems V
Poetry
by Michael R. Burch
Poetry, I found you
where at last they chained and bound you;
with devices all around you
to torture and confound you,
I found you—shivering, bare.
They had shorn your raven hair
and taken both...
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philosophy, poems, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Haiku translations of the Oriental MastersGrasses wilt:
the braking locomotive
grinds to a halt
—Yamaguchi Seishi, translation by Michael R. Burch
Oh, fallen camellias,
if I were you,
I'd leap into the torrent!
—Takaha Shugyo, translation by Michael R. Burch
The first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow...
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Categories:
animal, beauty, imagery, nature, philosophy, world,
Form:
Haiku
No MarkNo Mark
by Michael R. Burch
A wave implodes,
impaled upon
impassive rocks...
this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...
you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds demur...
telling me
that nothing returns
as it was before...
here where you have...
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Categories:
philosophy, break up, change, divorce, extended metaphor, farewell,
Form:
Verse
Father Time's InterviewHi.
We don't have a lot of time,
or, well, I guess you do,
but I don't,
so let's plunge right into the first big question:
Which came first, form or function?
False dichotomy. No such thing as a totally dysfunctional...
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Categories:
allegory, earth, environment, nature, philosophy, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Healthy Politics, and Sex, and ReligionI hope I know what is healthy sex,
in an experiential kind of way,
and a biblical swell known sway,
and I can imagine a world with healthier,
more cooperative, political empowerment,
but I am clueless about healthy religion,
which most...
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health, humor, philosophy, political, religion, sensual, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Two Wrongs Worth a RightToday, our first “All About Me” History class begins
when we comprehend every day and night
co-arises with “All About We”
full-octave
Zero-centric
bicamerally encultured
and regenetically reiterated
in and through,
by and for,
before and after,
each moment of Earth Tribe’s timeless surfing times.
If...
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Categories:
culture, earth, humor, integrity, philosophy, political, universe,
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Narrative
Red and Green ChristiansLet's start with a fundamental flaw of fundamentalist Christianity,
a literary flaw within literal non-interpretation of historical creation
and sacred development.
This is true of radical jihadist Moslims as well,
although we both know you think you're more special...
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Categories:
addiction, bible, hate, health, love, peace, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
Poems about Poems IIIPoems about Poems III
Radiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus?hard toil?
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes?dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.
The poet sees the sea but...
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philosophy, poems, poetry, poets, visionary, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Mirza Ghalib translationsNear Sainthood
by Mirza Ghalib
translation by Kanu V. Prajapati and Michael R. Burch
On the subject of mystic philosophy, Ghalib,
your words might have seemed deeply profound
and we might have pronounced you a saint...
if only we hadn't found
you...
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Categories:
philosophy, soulmate, spiritual, tamil, truth, urdu, women, words,
Form:
Verse
Professor Glory's Active HopeThe title of this talk today,
"Win-Win Politics of New Feminist Economics"
suggests questions,
more than emasculating
definitively deductive
reductive
answers.
Would you imagine
a minority-identified Buddhist,
more likely as a feminist
or culturally comfortable
with political and economic Left-brain domination,
monopolistic competing toward total self-consuming
reiteratively...
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Categories:
philosophy, creation, culture, deep, environment, feelings, love, political,
Form:
Narrative
Contract Against GreatnessIn Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
she paints a nationalistically wealthy saint
where also lives a monochromatically utilitarian narcissist,
sucking on attachment to fame and power
for bought and sold ZeroSum accounting Souls.
If the perfectly powerful pure patriarchal patriot
were your...
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Categories:
culture, health, integrity, mental illness, peace, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
Disability, Illness and FundamentalismDisability, Illness and Fundamentalism
My brother died of Cystic Fibrosis,
When I was twelve and he fourteen,
It took away his ambitions,
To study at Oxford - the pipe organ’s steam.
I understand being born with...
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Categories:
philosophy, atheist, cancer, health, prayer, religion, rights, science,
Form:
Rhyme
TransParent ExodusImagine we live in an eco-normative story
of competing for wealth-commodities,
cash piled in quantifiable currencies,
collectively blinded to our Win-Win
natural economic,
ecological,
psychological,
biological health and well-being value roots.
One day, our Permacultural Received View
unveils a co-operatively synergetic evolution of positive...
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Categories:
earth, environment, philosophy, political, psychological, spiritual, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Fuller Ironic FutureYour true self is intelligence
and the rest of you, only appearance,
don't lose sight of your true self,
don't waste your time chasing trivial
yet unobtainable goals.
Rumi (M Mafi, trans)
Physical is always special case.
Energy is physical
and always special...
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Categories:
math, peace, philosophy, science, violence, wisdom, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
Riding Time's Political FlowWe might do well
to worry less
about including the grizzly bear population
in our DNA/RNA cooperatively encultured Golden Rule,
after all,
we already would kill and eat them,
if hungry enough,
as they would like to treat us.
We could do well
to...
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Categories:
beauty, culture, nature, philosophy, political, psychological, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The world is a small plane
I have travelled through the cluttered corridors of my tired mind countless times.
I have reached deep into the dark abyss of my captive soul and in that profoundly disturbing darkness, I went searching to...
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Categories:
philosophy, appreciation, faith, inspirational, love, self, strength,
Form:
Narrative
Remembering Radical RelativesExplain your historical evolution radically, inclusively, expansively, good-humoredly;
not carefully, deductively, reductively, sarcastically.
We once had a school of thought
among up and coming geneticists and historians
that the precursor to the regeneration of a species,
or even an...
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Categories:
beauty, culture, health, humor, philosophy, psychological, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
God as Brown as an EggIf God is EggWhite
then Tao is His embryonic EarthYolk.
Why would you say such a confusing and silly thing?
What is the difference between a Paradise Tree of Life and Death
and a Great Chain of Being?
Is this...
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Categories:
philosophy, earth, god, health, history, motivation, power, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Portraits of Racial Politics“It is the custom of scholars when addressing behavior and culture to speak variously of anthropological explanations, psychological explanations, biological explanations, and other explanations appropriate to the perspectives of individual disciplines. I have argued that...
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Categories:
philosophy, culture, earth, health, love, political, race, trust,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Polypathic Political ScientistsI have had a highly redundant,
one might even choose polypathic,
graduate studies experience
spanning my adult life to date.
This began with a semester of Philosophy.
Just enough to learn I wanted something more experiential,
a more communitarian environment of...
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philosophy, beauty, culture, health, political, religion, trust, truth,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Wisp of ThoughtThere was a glimpse of time unknown to man
The things none may ever describe
All wrapped within this wall of thoughts
For if a moment of my thoughts are clear
They are not my thoughts at all
Never again...
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Categories:
beautiful, dream, grief, lonely, lost, metaphor, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Ecotherapeutic JusticeWhen passion plants a multicultural seed,
then justice flourishes a polypathic trusting flower.
Permaculture and polyculture,
grow holistic cause-effect karmic significance
for our physical, and mental, political and spiritual health.
Permacultural, as I intend it this morning,
refers to...
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Categories:
blessing, culture, earth, nature, philosophy, political, religion,
Form:
Narrative
Exodus to GenesisWith Julian Jaynes
we find an egocentric languaged LeftBrain
developing reasons to sacredly love our healthy RightBrain inductive-integrative SacredPower feelings of Earth's co-relationship with LeftBrain's Self-ReGenerating Identity
of BiCameral Ego/Eco-Consciousness.
Later on in the evolution of Positive Psychology,
we find...
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Categories:
culture, health, nature, philosophy, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse