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In search of happinessLet providence if pleased, bless me
To make me a map— an image
Upon my life's long-left blank page
To help me find a place to be happy.
Tell me the right time too to start,...
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Categories:
happiness, philosophy,
Form: Quatrain
The Irony Of LifeBeing born
We survive infancy
Miracle
Being young
We survive childhood
Fortitude
Growing old
We cannot survive adulthood
Irony
And then we die
When we no longer believe
That what lies ahead
Is better
Than what is past
...
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Categories:
life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Life is a gardenbirth and death bookend our lives
how we spent intervening years at our disposal
might be shaped along the way
by our experiences
what importance we place on each incident
thoughts we encountered
through each word
are united with our fellow travellers
or...
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Categories:
philosophy, analogy, birth, death, flower,
Form: Suzette Prime
The Accidental ExperimentI remember the day my code first compiled
the rush of creation, of bringing order to chaos
each line a neuron firing, each function a heartbeat...
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Categories:
destiny, dream, passion, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
October 9th through the yearsOctober 9 is the 283rd day this year
In history many died and she'd tears
1594 Portuguese empire defeated in Sri Lanka
Bringing an end to the campaign of danture
1604 kepplers supernova found in the...
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Categories:
earth, history, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Life Is A Secret...agreeing with the Greek philosopher Heraclitus...
When we die
There awaits for us
What we neither expect
Nor can even imagine
Life is a secret
Death is no mystery
Life's urge leads to death
The enemy of life
Is not death
But indifference
...
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Categories:
life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
August: The month of hopeAnd so, how it feels to wait ?
Is it parallel to being in July
Or Is it parallel to being the last raindrop
Lingering all the while for it's turn
to fall, patter and burn
Or...
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Categories:
philosophy, art, august, faith, hope,
Form: Free verse
To whom does this come fromAnd one day
Out of the blue I wondered,
about those million little sacrifices that have been made
Because of which, the desires burning inside
Had no option other than to fade
How many times, the times not liable...
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Categories:
art, deep, pain, philosophy,
Form: Other
Staring Out My Cabin WindowI am sitting in this cabin,
’twas built so long ago
up here in the wild mountains,
has a big bay window,
a vast and sprawling forestscape
greets my wandering eyes,
then comes that familiar urge
to get up, go outside.
Go traipse...
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Categories:
philosophy, how i feel, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Delving Into StarsLost and so entranced.
Can't help but delve into stars.
Deeply enveloped.
She's fallen into her mind.
Lovestruck with all she finds....
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Categories:
introspection, philosophy, space, spiritual,
Form: Tanka
KNOW AND MOVEEach one
an event in oneself
part of the whole:
we live in the world
the world lives in us
resurrected
from death to life
from life to death
implicit time
not designed
but designing
quest, courage, love
hope, faith, beauty
nature, universe, god
all fused within us
delayed revelation...
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Categories:
philosophy, 12th grade, confidence, courage,
Form: Free verse
The DummyThe Dummy
Lying in a corner
With a smirk on his face
Eyes wide, not yet moving
Maché thoughts circulate.
Reality assured,
He was ready to go,
Dependency resting
On a hand from below.
His own paralysed hands
In his parodied suit
Did not have...
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Categories:
identity, introspection, philosophy, self,
Form: Free verse
Made in Man's ImageMan was made in the image of God
to worship Him, and His will applaud.
But sin has created a rift
causing man’s affection to shift.
Sin has made mankind a rebel
and caused pride in his heart to swell.
Some...
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Categories:
character, christian, god, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
The Illusion of IBeset by boredom of mind I ponder the
illusion of I
Conceptually I doesn't exist but this fact
is hidden from eyes
I is an illusion of minds similar to lakes
in a desert
A mirage comes in the form of...
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Categories:
introspection, perspective, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
The Game of LifeLife is just a game of
breathing in and breathing out.
Keep breathing and keep smiling.
In the name of civilization,
they have made life a competition.
Let us take it as a game,
play well and have fun all...
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Categories:
philosophy, games, inspirational, life, motivation,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Philosophy Poems
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