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Short Sages Poems

Short Sages Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Sages by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Sages by length and keyword.


Premium Member Counsel of sages
birth-death rotate
desires bait soul
just wait it out...

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Categories: sages, birth, death, desire, spiritual,
Form: Than-Bauk



Premium Member Thought of the day
All world sages spoke in chorus ~
Light lamp of love, make heart porous...

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Categories: sages, heart, love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member out of the blue
seekers and sages 
cross hills and vales to find him ~
he's in the manger
...

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Categories: sages, jesus,
Form: Haiku
Prodigal Patriots
Our sages’ pages and wages
Fading, folding and falling
… the prodigals named and shamed...

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Categories: sages, people
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Lessons
Whispering secrets Nature teaches her children; Creating sages.
...

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Categories: sages, appreciation, earth, earth day, education, environment, inspiration,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Thought of the day
sages fall when they lay claim
to fame in our Father’s name
hoping to gather a crowd
feeding ego, feeling proud...

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Categories: sages, introspection, pride,
Form: Jueju
Premium Member Thought of the day
truth has been shared by sages
right across all the ages
but unless our heart glistens
fickle mind never listens
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Categories: sages, heart, truth,
Form: Jueju
Premium Member From the Mouths of Babes
the wisest sages
cast their pearls from grand castles…
         blanket and two chairs

               ~10 Jan 2016~...

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© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sages, innocence, youth,
Form: Senryu
Court
Silliness is and silliness was
The clothing of reason because
In the dance, the joker knew
Sages proclaimed the untrue...

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© Jim Musser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sages, nonsense, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Life's Pseudo Sages
Lingering languages bowing to lovely lies
Men’s mansions begging to murder morality
Falling flowers born to fraternize frailty...

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Categories: sages, art, inspirational, life,
Form: Haiku
Pearl of the Orient
Brought out by sages
Birthed within seas of dharma
Beheld by Mani
Begotten as the world’s soul
Brought out by the rising sun
...

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Categories: sages, allegory, analogy, birth, culture, sea, sun, wisdom,
Form: Tanka
Maker
The God of the ages, tHe guider o F soul,
 the wiseth of sages, maker of black holes, 
controller of end of tHe days.
Don Johnson...

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Categories: sages, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
My Silent Read
The sages I  have read,
       all realize they are humble...
       The fools I've read understand
       they're always all proud......

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Categories: sages, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor, humanity, irony,
Form: Epigram
Human Contradition
The notable sages I've read all ponder themselves trivial...
       limited scribblers I've read almost all present themselves eminent......

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Categories: sages, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor, psychological,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member True Wealth
Who is rich? --- 
He who is content with his lot
   Thus, the Sages of yore
Accept the wages of honest labor
   No need to hunger for more...

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Categories: sages, faith, money, work,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Chanukah Message For Today
A minor holiday, the Sages say
  with a major message for today

Never let big government dictate terms
  even when it comes to tiny germs...

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Categories: sages, holiday, jewish, meaningful,
Form: Couplet
Time Is of the Essence
The Bible has so many pages
Each reviewed and approved by sages
And when they were through
No one had a clue
As they took to the Middle Ages!...

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Categories: sages, bible, giggle,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Egypt Calls
egypt calls to me a past life there beckons and i visit in dreams scenarios rolling by what ancients sages reveal
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Categories: sages, appreciation, philosophy, places, poems, poetry, psychological,
Form: Tanka
Christmas' Colours
Singing stars soaring in the sages' skies,
Glorious gifts gesticulating in their gentle girdles
Courteous colours courting in christmas' crest....

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Categories: sages, devotion, faith, seasons,
Form: Haiku
The Aging Tree
The tree stands stately
A thousand rings betray age
The birds sing like sages
Gnarled trunk suffers all weathers
Light dew moistens bird feathers...

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Categories: sages, nature,
Form: Tanka
On Pilkington Avenue
Standing on busy Pilkington avenue
Rain as sky tears full of rage
Moth- men in cages 
Zoom past all of them sages
Sending post cards of themselves
To their egos....

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Categories: sages, anxiety, city, england, humanity, ireland, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Do Not Envy the Rich
Do not envy the rich, so advised the sages,
Try to be happy with little things in life.
Therefore myself and my resilient  wife,
We always laugh,  on sight  at  ours  wages...

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Categories: sages, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
Old Books
Do you smell that:
The perfume of ancient ages?
   Do you smell that,
which is held in perfect format?
Kept in the bottles of pages,
from the time of antique sages.
   Do you smell that?...

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Categories: sages, appreciation, best friend, books, devotion, poems, poetry,
Form: Other
An Old Art
Silence in the forest,
Conversation among the trees,
Unheard by me,
Yet heard by the sages,
They called it an old art,
One that bridges nature and the human soul.


January 29, 2025.
...

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Categories: sages, art, inspirational, old, silence, tree,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yote's
From the Sages of old
came an ancient ruse.
They named it a Yote.
But it's not a fluke.
Cause they're in the know.
Won't, refute the scrolls.
Yotes, wear sneaker boots.
And Yodel in Tune....

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Categories: sages, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

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