Short Existentialist Poems

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Existentialist Box

walking waiting for
nothing but walking 
can't decide, just do,
actions mechanized
briefly burnt out, ai!
the end is the start of
something else (some
one break this box)
Form: Shape


A Student's Work

Occupations are not 
all useful, like when Sisyphus rolls
and nobody cares. Even Camus
can’t justify my love
of quantum or calculus, when it’s burn-lonely
rolling out the integrals: I integrate
myself into a human
-ist Existentialist here’s the point -ist
theory of why I am why I am
and when I differentiate my parents 
chide me. I gather the pieces again.
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Authentic Life

Being authentic is the key

not trying hard to be tricky,

live life with an open heart

get yourself a mindful restart,

discover the existentialist you

see yourself from another view,

not just standing outside the box

but smashing it to pieces while standing on top,

manifest a consciousness shift

open up a paradigm rift,

that shakes your thinking quite a bit

and wakes you up to what reality is.

Anger

The deadliest hang man
Pierces like a knife
Into the deepest chord of ones soul
It burns one up like a molten magma
In preparation for eruption
Oh I fear the consequences
of falling into into your entrapment
That deprives man the sanity
Of making sane decisions
Its controlling power is blinding
It makes its victim snap without
Recollection of ones action
What an existentialist concept
That ruins a man without recollection

Gabriel Marcel

You were the mystery of Being:
son of agnostic, himself atheist
and you became creative fidelity
in your philosophy of existence.

Later converted to Catholicism, 
you were advancing ethical axioms
having consciousness
that you can materialize or annihilate values.

In your immanent introspection you observed
that the man is a derived being tending to
the primary being of the Absolute 
and you became notable Christian existentialist.


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