Philosophic Poems

Premium MemberAnti-Intellectualism, BEING THERE

...I never think my thoughts deep thoughts  --
though I'm no Peter Sellers, they are
but common trite reactions.  l do not live
an examined philosophic life; nor have I
focused, fathomed understandi...
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Categories: philosophic, 12th grade, confusion, culture,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDetente

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Because peace is more important than winning...

Like arrows shot right through a weary heart
these words in anger pierce the tender flesh. 
This gift of verse, each eager to impart
feels wast...
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Categories: philosophic, angst, peace,
Form: Sonnet


THE WAY TO BAJHOBA LAND

...In the meeting
of LUKA members,  
                    Yves Kamunobe
stood up and started reciting, " 
                       As I was sleeping ,
I heard an old man screaming ,'
  Wake up Wamasa...
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Categories: philosophic, africa, flower, humanity, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberear rations

...in ancient times
ear-rational philosophers
spoke...
with respect to 
irrational philosophic calls


stan sand


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Categories: philosophic, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberdiction - air ease

...oxfords current english diction
(air-ease of meaning)

echoes-

an engaging philosophic-call
(for a small full-loss-of-fee)

for-

the pages of  'philosophy now'
a magazine of meaning


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Categories: philosophic, adventure, wisdom,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberIts brains, the Sapiophile

...So I added a new word to my description of self
Sapiophile, romantically attracted to intelligence wealth

If you are smart and have that laser keen mind
I want to know you, explore you deeper in...
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Categories: philosophic, appreciation, i am, psychological,
Form: Rhyme

No Words

...A poem looks at me,
I cannot see its face.

"What am I" it says.

This question is a mind-trap.

I reply:
You are an expression of the I AM.

The poem continues its inquiry:
"Am I good or ...
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Categories: philosophic, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThree Legged Table

...Unity of the Trinity in Christianity
The Triune Allah-Jesus-Mary concept of Islam
The Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva... one with the humanity
All amalgamate into sole wholeness and grand great charm...
 
I...
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Categories: philosophic, image, imagery,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberFree-Versed

...phil lost sophie
...with his...
file-loss...of 'fees'

...and...a...
full loss of...'why'
...wrt his...

phi-loss...of 'phi'
...itself in his...
philosoph-'hick calls'

...meaning...he'd ...
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Categories: philosophic, absence, analogy, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEternity

...Eternity ensues to mount	
from fertile vale above the mist.
Traverse the river past the turn.

Calm at the perpetual fount
and steady forth into the fist
of heady sun-struck silent burn. 

En...
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Categories: philosophic, environment, god, mountains, river,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberNonconformist Idealist

...A catholic priest from the Scottish highlands,
Scotus treaded a nonconformist philosophic path,
deviating from the high middle age mainstream,
for his doctrines of realistic beliefs he was...
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Categories: philosophic, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

At the Pivot of Invention Or Piggyback

...by the interpretation comes perception—the faraway dream, the symbols—or the way I attack myself—in harassing my screams. upon a wishbone, to feel some semblance, listening to darker parts; the curse...
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Categories: philosophic, black african american,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberJanie Huzzie Bowa

...thesis: strength endures voids and emptiness.
strength constructs no homes (antithesis:

if your house leaks then on swollen days
in sullen seasons there is no home for you)

there is endless r...
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Categories: philosophic, angel, hero, home, mirror,
Form: Free verse

When the Rich Wage War

...when the rich wage war, it is the poor who die
overflowing their bank accounts as they lie

hiding behind niceties as they make us slaves
wars made to control us, which they create and crave

w...
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Categories: philosophic, corruption, philosophy, political,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberCreativity

...Robert’s crafted a fine form
of poetry we will sup
drink from philosophic cup
his creativity’s now reborn.


Form "Lind30"...
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Categories: philosophic, poems, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme

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