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Meaninglessness Poems - Poems about Meaninglessness

Premium MemberHowling Wilderness

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Written: June 16, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh

Quote: "I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in the mountains and the desert..." By Rumi

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Categories: meaninglessness, appreciation, change,
Form: Rhyme

Cloaked in Shadow

...I was drenched in black water,
Yet, it looked as though I were dried out.
I stood before a lighthouse,
Yet, remained unseen.

Gazing into the sea’s blackness,
The highest tides forever circled ...
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Categories: meaninglessness, confusion, dark, death, depression,
Form: Free verse



Indian Wasteland

...It is the world of Shiva and Shaitan
It is the world of Krishna and Kant

Devi on Nandi holding Demon and Son
Devotees, Deities, Ash, Claps and Fun

Fragile girl carrying child in her arm's
No...
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Categories: meaninglessness, absence, anxiety, black love,
Form: Sonnet

From default yes to designed no

...O to live life in relentless outreach
And still stay put, stagnant, nowhere to reach,
To struggle hard, getting not so in hand,
To feign busy as if a butterfly,
Or a productive bee nevertheless,
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Categories: meaninglessness, life,
Form: Blank verse

The 4 AM Voice

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(A lone voice whispers)


As we stroll this Long Walk together
On Boxing Day

Someone's prayer reached out through the Ether and asked me

Hey
Are we all silently walking in a spi...
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Categories: meaninglessness, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberIn The Cycle Of Existence

...Whose psyche has come to my physique? Do I ever know?
I accept it as a stream accepts the fresh rain and flow.
In Ram, Rahim, and Robert, Rajeet this soul might have been
Did this dwell in Buddha ...
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Categories: meaninglessness, birth, death, joy, life,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIn the twilight of her mind, where shadows play and memories twist

...In the twilight of her mind, where shadows play and memories twist,
She stood before the mirror, that ancient oracle of truth and deceit.
A reflection, elusive as the morning mist,
Dancing on the ...
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Categories: meaninglessness, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Crooked

...Crooked

They are the ones who make them forget the existence they have and surround them with the spirit of their new life.
The grave may be the provider of new bodies and matter taken by countin...
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Categories: meaninglessness, people,
Form: Free verse

Blood Pulsing Deletions

...Natural death licking aims
Now our bleach seasons heirs
And the pubis of public lore

Intrauterine spinning blue dream cream
Roils rushing a rock star’s semen searching 
For golden lands of rum...
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Categories: meaninglessness, death, deep, evil, gothic,
Form: Free verse

there's hope at the end

...Do you ever feel like
There is an emptiness inside you
An emptiness 
That drains the light out of everything?
A black hole

Life in grayscale
Colors faded
Flavors muted
Voices distant

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Categories: meaninglessness, depression, emotions, hope, mental
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMeditation on Meaninglessness

...In shadow's tomb—
A dim, aimless flicker...
Void's grip, timeless 
claims all.

Fantomsound: life's song is just a cognition in the null.

Rain, pain—
Stardust, dust, flesh 
patternless on o...
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Categories: meaninglessness, atheist, death, irony, nonsense,
Form: Free verse

An Eternal Immortality

...Seeming of a blessing, that morphs into a heavy curse
Infinite youth behind old eyes that behold a library of stories
Every generation is what writes in themselves the next verse
And the chains of...
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Categories: meaninglessness, life, love, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Us and Them We Are One

...I was listening to various people talk about the Israel versus Palestine events and it saddened me that we are in 2023 and humans have not learned the lessons of the past. It's easy for anyone to giv...
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Categories: meaninglessness, death, discrimination, humanity, peace,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLord God, You Are My Heart's Searcher

...September 28 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Luke 16-17

Key Verse – Luke 16:15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your heart...
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Categories: meaninglessness, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberZen Nihilism-POTD

...Written: September 05, 2023    
This or That, Vol 20 Poetry Contest      Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
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In the Zen kingdom, ...
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Categories: meaninglessness, analogy, appreciation, beauty, confidence,
Form: Rhyme

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