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Transcendentalism Poems

American Cacophony

...Microtonal mayhem misses the mark
a triple concerto for sirens, drones & bullets
groaning ghosts pluck piano strings
extramusical praise: present (& past/future)
we're going around & round (sings...

Categories: transcendentalism, dark, music, surreal, word
Form: Free verse

Transcendentalism

...Blind
My Ears
My Vision
My Voice I See
Vociferation

Walk
Cripple
Just One Step
Have Faith And Come
Trustability

One 
Number
Double it
Now Add One More
Overpopulate







*M...

Categories: transcendentalism, analogy,
Form: Cinquain

To Which Image Should We Cling

...The only image we cling to 
Should be the one in the mirror.
Of that I could not be surer.
Your idols will let you down in the end.
Jesus, Elvis, Lennon, and John Paul the Second,
Even Ghandi, T...

Categories: transcendentalism, life,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

National Scrabble Day April 13th

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         poesy    etcetera
              v       o
     Lip  morphemes
     i  into          e  y
 eyne    t              n
    g      i          write
    u      o   r         a
    i   ...

Categories: transcendentalism, dedication, education, introspection,
Form: Free verse

The Over-Soul

...
“Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. 
The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable 
may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every...

Categories: transcendentalism, dark, light, muse,
Form: Free verse

Tell Tale Titles

...TELL TALE TITLES

Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”
could have been entitled
“Lost in the Woods”
Thoreau’s
“On Your Own in the Wilderness”
never seen as a treatise on
transcendentalism
and withou...

Categories: transcendentalism, books, writing,
Form: Free verse

There Is I Am

...There is I am
where the white dawn with the flying pigeons is
where the golden noon with glittering afternoon is
where the silvering dusk with rhythmic twittering is
where the silent contemplatin...

Categories: transcendentalism, tribute,
Form: Free verse

My Coat

...5:00 am
And I am most alive
It's still quiet
I know they are on the road
The cars, the trucks, the trailers
But I can't hear them
Rather only bird song from the trees near by
I breathe but I do not i...

Categories: transcendentalism, life,
Form: Free verse