The Dismal Science and the Meaning of Life
(“Meaning of Life Merit Badge”, 2010, original oil)
The Dismal Science and the Meaning of Life
Supply and demand is as basic and Nobel a
Truth
As you can get.
If you doubt, just hold your breath a minute
And notice the urgency that quickly builds.
Somehow in man’s quest for meaning
Aka the creation of religion, or “dharma”,
The sacred and the secular
Became
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Categories:
meaning of life, appreciation, desire, religion, sorrow,
Form: Narrative
Life
Life doesn't belong to any of us
It passes by,
unfathomable
It flows through our fingertips
Encapsulates us, satiates our spirits
Graces us with swollen ankles
And delicate skin prone to wrinkles
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Categories:
meaning of life, life, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
The MEANING of Life
The MEANING of Life
Is the Same As
The Meaning
Of Any Magnificent
Work of Art.
How Does THAT
Make You Feel?
-Gray Squirrel
02-25-2025
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Categories:
meaning of life, life,
Form: Free verse
The Meaning of Life
("Meaning of Life Merit Badge" #13, 2010, original oil)
The Meaning of Life
Monty Python got it right:
The meaning of life
Has nothing to do with hats.
It has to do with a conscious appreciation
Cultivated in this life, for this life
With all the particulars it offers.
It’s not a given,
Which is why it must be found,
And once found cherished.
The
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Categories:
meaning of life, life, meaningful, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Meaning of life
Purpose that is sought
people that you love the most
suceeding in all
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Categories:
meaning of life, life,
Form: Senryu
The Meaning of Life
Meaning of Life
The meaning of Life,
To touch, to feel, to see
To know without shadows or doubt,
One's own immortality.
Life is the kindergarten of the Cosmos;
A proving ground for worth.
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Categories:
meaning of life, life, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
In the search for the meaning of life, we are born in the shadow of conscious death
In the search for the meaning of life, we are born in the shadow of conscious death,
An echo of the spirit, of our introspective and questioning gaze,
Under the weight of the end, we weave religions and philosophies like spider webs,
In which the thread of our life extends, like the light of a falling star.
But the
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Categories:
meaning of life, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Meaning of Life
The Meaning of Life
There is a
Simple
Tragedy
To Everything.
And a
Beautiful
Sadness
to
It All.
That's How
Blissful
Ignorance
Can Be.
A Brush Stroke,
A Pixel,
An Emission of Light:
A Fancy
In Spite
Of the
Art.
-Gray Squirrel
05-16-2024
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Categories:
meaning of life, life,
Form: Free verse
Meaning of Life
Lonely pearl what troubles you
Is it the clam within you grew
Dont forget you'll shine so bright
Dont forget you'll be harvested at night
Flimsy string what is the issue
Is it the clams that now are due
Dont forget you're not on the menu
Dont forget that you've got no value
Little human where's the problem
Isn't it you so gruesome
Dont forget
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Categories:
meaning of life, allegory, allusion, animal, bird,
Form: Rhyme
The 'Meaning of Life'
The ‘meaning of life’ oft escaped me
for I got quite busy, you see
There’s just wasn’t time to philosophize
untimely death ~ forever unwise
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Categories:
meaning of life, death, life, meaningful, philosophy,
Form: Couplet
Meaning Of Life
The meaning of life is to serve Christ,
no greater calling has ever sufficed.
To have a charitable heart on earth,
pleases our Savior with our soul's
loving rebirth.
This is the meaning of life-
coexist without strife,
to speak of Him, His Word,
doing good with our souls stirred. ~
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Categories:
meaning of life, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme
meaning of life
from first breath of life
we are bound for true greatness
that is God's promise
our promise is to
live a good and wholesome life
following our Lord
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Categories:
meaning of life, god,
Form: Haiku
The True Meaning of Life
In the overall scheme of things
What matters most in life
It's the love of another human being
The total commitment between two hearts
That indescribable connection
When you recognize that someone is very special
Of all the people we rub elbows with
During our too short a time on earth
One who stands out head and shoulders above the rest
One to share
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Categories:
meaning of life, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Meaning of Life
Like playing on the field
Hopes and dreams, dramas
Lived out – in breathless moments,
Silence creating intriguing promises,
This is life – like the show, theater
Performances, the series that assures
I’ll come back for more – life’s roar,
The aching of a heart who longs for paradise,
Heavenly shores, where there is more…
Love, like the key to inspiring
Hope, like the crucial
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Categories:
meaning of life, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Free verse
To play well this inning, meaning of life
Lost in life’s mundane,
A man moans: can one explain
To me life’s meaning?
Till you play well this inning,
You’ll keep asking for meaning.
_____________________________
Tanka |07.06.2023| life
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Categories:
meaning of life, life, meaningful,
Form: Tanka
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