Rationalist Poems | Examples


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      1. Rationalist
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      3. Daughter of Mriganka and Monisha.
      4. Lover of Family bond, Genuine friendship, Versatile Nature.
      5. Who feels Happy accessing success, not to Upset  on failure, 
            Enthusiastic to meet Challenges.
      6. Who fears Loneliness, Illness, Separation from loved ones.
      7.Who would like to see End of corruption, Gender Equality, Humanity as
         only Religion.
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        Dad : My Teacher, Preacher, Guide, Philosopher in life album .
        Me : Mathematician, yet exploration covered wide spectrum.
        Best blessings and bliss of life are my two daughters to fulfill 
        my dreams and desires till date , offering zeal and thrill.
Categories: rationalist, appreciation,
Form: Bio

Only Now

Does worry only exist
in our memory
Or is foresight
required to fret

Will a bear live in fear
of the hunter
Or ignore what
might happen unmet

When alarm bells go off
in the moment
Rejecting the
future and past

Is time at its essence
but present
All reference
 — a rationalist caste

(The New Room: January, 2024)
Categories: rationalist, time,
Form: Rhyme


Philosophically Speaking

To produce a logic table
Clearly in your mind
Other possible worlds
The purpose of your find.

It's not empirical truth we seek
Only a Gedanken experiment
Knowledge that we cannot show
Proof that makes us sentient.

The greatest happiness or the moral right
Kant verses Mill
Empiricist or Rationalist
An argument of will.

So choose your dialectic
As Plato was taught
Because a life without philosophy
Is a life without thought.
Categories: rationalist, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWritten On Sep 11 2001

Dismissing evil and good
Upright and smiling he stood;
Materialistically modern in mood
Filled full with rationalist food;
Denying inherent sin
Liberally enlighten within.

Dismissing evil and good
Puffed-up self approving he stood
Pursuing illusory appeal
With academic assumptions so unreal;
Denying inherent sin
So liberally enlightened within.

Dismissing evil and good
All-seeing,all-knowing he stood;
An idealistic ego
Coupled his elitist credo
Denying  inherent sin
Liberally enlightened within.

Until a September morn
When his teachings lay shattered
Tattered,torn and forlorn;
One fell blow sacrificed his sacred cow
Leaving him,his philosophy
Just nowhere to go.

A RESPONSE
(Written Sept 2001 ) Year Posted 2007
Categories: rationalist, america, betrayal, history, memorial,
Form: Kyrielle

Premium MemberAn Historic Event- Nine Eleven

Dismissing evil and good
Upright and smiling he stood;
Materialistically modern in mood
Filled full with rationalist food;
Denying inherent sin
Liberally enlighten within.

Dismissing evil and good
Puffed-up self approving he stood
Pursuing illusory appeal
With academic assumptions so unreal;
Denying inherent sin
So liberally enlightened within.

Dismissing evil and good
All-seeing,all-knowing he stood;
An idealistic ego
Coupled his elitist credo
Denying  inherent sin
Liberally enlightened within.

Until a September morn
When his teachings lay shattered
Tattered,torn and forlorn;
One fell blow sacrificed his sacred cow
Leaving him,his philosophy
Just nowhere to go.

(Written Sept 2001 )
Categories: rationalist, history, political,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberWoke Words

Dismissing evil and good
Upright and smiling he stood;
Materialistically modern in mood
Filled full with rationalist food;
Denying inherent sin
Liberally enlighten within.

Dismissing evil and good
Puffed-up self approving he stood
Pursuing illusory appeal
With academic assumptions so unreal;
Denying inherent sin
So liberally enlightened within.

Dismissing evil and good
All-seeing,all-knowing he stood;
An idealistic ego
Coupled his elitist credo
Denying  inherent sin
Liberally enlightened within.

Until a September morn
When his teachings lay shattered
Tattered,torn and forlorn;
One fell blow sacrificed his sacred cow
Leaving him,his philosophy
Just nowhere to go.
Categories: rationalist, history,
Form: Kyrielle

Premium MemberDismissing Inherent Sin Why We Kill

re-pot inspired by Debbie's contest

Dismissing evil and good
Upright and smiling he stood;
Materialistically modern in mood
Filled full with rationalist food;
Denying inherent sin
Liberally enlighten within.

Dismissing evil and good
Puffed-up self approving he stood
Pursuing illusory appeal
With academic assumptions so unreal;
Denying inherent sin
So liberally enlightened within.

Dismissing evil and good
All-seeing,all-knowing he stood;
An idealistic ego
Coupled his elitist credo
Denying  inherent sin
Liberally enlightened within.
Categories: rationalist, humanity, sin,
Form: Kyrielle

Fighting Rationalism

The rationalist must reduce, 
It's in their nature. 
Pragmatic logic insists, 
On conformity of thought, 
Anomalies will not be tolerated, 
Measurable verifiable data, 
Equations balanced, 
Algorithms written, 
Formulas deduced, 
Universal laws obeyed, 

But shadows still linger, 
The face behind the face, 
Unconscious chaos, 
Irrational processes, 
That feeds the soul. 

Ah but we have no soul,, 
For logic deems it thus, 
No individual light, 
Only predictable 
Chemical reactions. 
And biological impulses, 
And our bones rot into 
Infinite night, 

Not for me, 
Give me wisdom
Beneath cool moonlight, 
And wild gypsies songs, 
Give  me anarchist poems, 
And the strange happiness 
Of religious folk, 


Give me anything, 
But your sterile world 
Washed in monotone grey.
Categories: rationalist, community, culture, life, technology,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLet's Work the Problem

I like his confidence, that working the problem
will certainly result in better outcomes than guessing.
A rationalist who does not depend on a higher power
to direct his decisions, but who may concede,
observe, realize and accept that he lacks the data
or the skills or tools to interpret data and these
decisions he leaves to his god.
                              But not before
thoroughly assessing the limits of his power. Guessing
before guessing is necessary makes things worse. The skills,
tools and experience are the accumulated wisdom
of earlier experts in his field.
                              Yet each generation
of communicants must examine the assumptions
from which the mathematics, logic, science or law
was derived. Rebuild the proofs from the simplest
truths, laws, physics. Taking God's first and only words
and extrapolating correctly, getting the trajectory
right for successful take off and re-entry.
                              And then
to explain the derivations to your students.
Until they too can care for the species and the planet,
making whole sentences, formulas and melodies
from few words, numbers, notes.
Categories: rationalist, god, math, power, science,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberConsequences

Dismissing evil and good
Upright and smiling he stood;
Materialistically modern in mood
Filled full with rationalist food;
Denying inherent sin
Liberally enlighten within.

Dismissing evil and good
Puffed-up self approving he stood
Pursuing illusory appeal
With academic assumptions so unreal;
Denying inherent sin
So liberally enlightened within.

Dismissing evil and good
All-seeing,all-knowing he stood;
An idealistic ego
Coupled his elitist credo
Denying  inherent sin
Liberally enlightened within.

Until a September morn
When his teachings lay shattered
Tattered,torn and forlorn;
One fell blow sacrificed his sacred cow
Leaving him,his philosophy
Just nowhere to go.

(Written Sept 2001 )
Categories: rationalist, people, philosophy, socialevil,
Form: Kyrielle
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