Kant Touch This
In Konigsberg's silent, winding streets,
A scholar kept a clockwork beat—
Immanuel Kant, whose daily round
Set city watches to their sound.
A mind both shaped by science’ light
And mystic mother’s faith at night,
He stood where reason, faith, and sense
Met at Enlightenment’s immense
And trembling, storied, ancient cross,
Where gain for one meant some would lose.
Hume, thirteen years ahead in age,
Had...
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Categories:
philosophy, psychological,
Form: Couplet
This is meI'd have to say
I'm calm and easygoing,
I can be fun to be with
in a quiet kind of way.
My mind's creative
and always working,
always thinking of things
to brighten someone's day.
I like to be pampered but
will never ask for favours,
I'm still on the surface
while longings deeply stir.
I'm not high maintenance,
you might even feel that I'm ok
with being taken...
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Categories:
psychological, appreciation, confidence, introspection, me,
Form: Free verse
My PTSD
My PTSD is here within me. Tries to control my mind. Tries to dictate what I find.
My PTSD lives here with me. Can control some actions and thoughts. Bilateral movements ground my defence to its calls.
My PTSD creates vivid memories which lock me into dark spaces alone. I have to act when the triggers...
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Categories:
psychological, absence, abuse, age, anger,
Form: Free verse
Why I Write Too Many Poems Like ThisI guess I never grew up. I'm not mature.
Anyway, why'd I wanna do that fur?
My mom called me smart aleck so many times,
I'd be rich if, for each one, I had dimes.
Want someone to do something, just say "don't".
It may be dumb, but you can't tell me they won't....
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Categories:
poetry, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
You can't run from accountabilityWe know your game
And we are not going to become slaves to it
We've seen you spin your lies like a spiders Web
Your crimes of deceit will come back to smite you
The heavens will rain down on you
There is no escape from eternity
Hear these words said
Let them infest your head
Your silence will betray you...
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Categories:
color, discrimination, prejudice, psychological,
Form: Free verse
The spiritual horror of psychological tortureWhen the mind slowly decays
It doesn’t just affect the mind
It affects the body, the spirit, the soul
The spiritual horror of psychological torture
Is how you treated black people
The way you penetrated our minds with accusations of inferiority
Treating us less than animals
Less than the dirt on your shoes
Generation after generation
You have tortured my people
Psychological...
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Categories:
discrimination, horror, prejudice, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Wombstorm: A Herstory of HysteriaI. THE WANDERING
I was born with a life that bled—
a seafloor womb
dragging tides of fern
and marigold char
The priests brought saffron
and fear
crowning me with diagnosis
They said: She is too empty
They said: Fill her with figs
with seed
with stillness
They said: Her belly speaks too loud
Mute her
O Plato
old patriarch of phantoms
my body was no beast—
just prophecy you never learned...
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Categories:
psychological, body, history, mental illness,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
PareidoliaIt was all about a grim,
Foggy, smoggy, old Thursday night
In Hithergreen,
London’s belching south,
Below Europe’s icy, dark trees and
In the silence of grieving mornings . . .
Bulbous clouds bleeding with strained oomph
Would stir the ingravescence of patented ills.
The trains always come railing!
Railing loud and silly
Like heathen bandits with no shame.
But before such mornings,
A half-distilled liquored, low-brewed
Evening...
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Categories:
psychological, winter,
Form: Free verse
Deeply Insane
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
~ Nikola Tesla
nights are dark and long
and those who come only
to wheedle
me into eating, or drinking, or brushing my hair
coddle and coo
yet bear knife and needle
to prepare my mind...
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Categories:
psychological, mental illness, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Other
ALL FAIR IN WARHe told me all is fair in war, that he studied all of our wars.
That when they take over, everything will belong to them.
He told me, when a new culture of government takes over they instill all of their laws and cultures, making all the old ones cancelled.
All is fair in war...
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Categories:
america, future, psychological, woman,
Form: Rhyme
My intent is wordless In the wilderness of bewilderment,
Sculpting different sorts of thoughts,
Where intent fades, needing no interment,
And truth exudes from all its rots.
There lies the stark resolve for my future,
A slender hope of life ahead,
Bound together by a catgut suture,
That time corrodes until it's shed.
All kept away from prying eyes,
Ever before my intent was conceived,
Just to keep all...
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Categories:
psychological, extended metaphor, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
TRAVELING IN A SPACESHIP CALLED EARTHWe ride a spaceship through the sky,
The Earth, it spins as stars pass by,
At thirty kilometers each second we soar,
Yet feel no jerk, no sudden roar.
The galaxy moves, the cosmos sways,
In silent dance through endless days,
For billions of years, we spin, we glide,
In constant calm, on cosmic tide.
As children small, with eyes so wide,
We asked...
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Categories:
psychological, change, creation, earth, emotions,
Form: Free verse
tormented
Categories:
psychological, angst, anxiety, conflict, pain,
Form: Senryu
Which App?I just downloaded the latest product - yay!
It's better than the competition, they say.
Some call it "Sun". Others call it "Rain".
It's the application inside my brain....
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Categories:
political, psychological, silly,
Form: Epigram
Growing old is not for the faint of heartIt's not at all easy to come to term
with this 'new' old version of me.
I'm dealing with a sadly sagging anatomy
where what-used-to-be is now not-quite-so-firm.
I'm dumbstruck by the person in the mirror.
I have to have 'the' chat again and again
to scatter the chatter from my brain
and help me focus to see things clearer.
At least I'm...
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Categories:
psychological, age, body, change, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Psychological Poems
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