Truth Poems | Examples

Premium Member Secrets don’t solve much of anything

To be true to myself
I need to speak loud and clear
~ share what’s on my mind



 Wordku: 5-7-5 words

Premium Member Stop hiding

I owe it to myself
I need to open up express myself
~speak my truth my mind



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025


What words are not so sure to say

Try read from eyes in all details,
A word vouched dies with all details.	
    Lies can’t be wise with all details,  
    Truth infers from lies all details.
The cool hearth cooled off my hunger,
Hush did apprise with all details.
    What can’t be told in all details,
    My silence tries in all details.
What can’t be said but left unsaid,
Reserve espies in all details.
_________________________  
Ghazal |17.09.2025 | eyes, lies, silence, truth, words

Premium Member Battle For Your Mind

(“Citadel of Light Merit Badge”, 2016, original pen and ink)

Battle For Your Mind

We live in a time of upheaval and change,
Challenge and war,
But the biggest battle
Is what some call “jihad”
An internal struggle of light and dark
As a soul makes their way along the path.
But along with the esoteric jihad
There is the exoteric, external struggle for your soul, 
And battle for your mind,
A battle between the Death-eaters 
And the Life-givers.
In this battle of temptation
Desertion is always an option,
And as many times as we may vacillate
What matters most is where we finally settle.
And in an infinite universe
On a timeline of eternity,
As Led Zeppelin said,
You can always change the road you’re on.
But once we know how it will end
Then the momentary ups and downs
Cannot confuse and distract us.
This is the Path of Seeing
The path of no return
The warrior path
In the battle for your mind.

(9/16/25)

Well Said

Well said.


I can’t hold a conversation that is not in metaphor.
I can see through your lies as I show you my all.
It’s not a pretty sight seeing as you do.
It’s a mixed up Zen in a world of broken fools.
It’s a beautiful time to destroy everything.
I fall at your feet to ask you for nothing.


(C)2025 Aa Harvey. All Rights Reserved.


Hello And Goodbye

Leavened unleavened
risen and stayed
Lost when recovered
joyful dismay

Intrinsic extrinsic
the whole without parts
Tomorrow this moment
stopping to start

Benign and bedeviled
revealed yet unseen
A valid deception
blessed but obscene

The past and the future
hello and goodbye
Affirming rejection
— all truth to belie

(Dreamsleep: September, 2025)

The Life of Poetry

Once there is no romance 
No passion,
No impulse,
It will be no spark in a poem;

Once there is no true understanding 
No wisdom, 
No reason, 
It will be no content in a poem; 

Even if a poem has all them
If no one reads it, 
It will fade
And die

Premium Member Truth or Dare

Truth spoken is still truth,

No matter how long it takes, once spoken!

Trust broken is still broke,

No matter how long it takes, once broken!

Premium Member One day unplug

Fed daily dose of dope
filtered truths poisoned as they may be
~ I dream of breaking free



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025

We are the same, just made different

There is paint painted on me
It is a kind of paint that whose pigment can dust
And cause a different kind of stain on you
If and when; 
You glide on me,
You lean on me,
And colide with me.

I keep myself away because of that difference
So as to avoid such kind of confusion
"You treasure what's yours but again confuse it"
Eager to prove me wrong but will you believe me?
Give ears to listen to the different kind of story!
The story that makes my paint that way.

Will you distinguish and help me see
If there's that I don't see that I should
Yet you shouldn't always expect that
"There must be something you see that I do not"
The truth is You never know whether I looked further
Further than your eyes made there sight

"We are the same" but, "just made different"
Though even so
How much can you make up from those two statements
"We are the same" but, "just made different"
Or is it that I am the foolish one and,
Don't deserve to sit amongst you
Just because I have a different opinion.

Round Wound-CM

Time heals love's wound,
Truth seals it round.

Premium Member My Daily Sabbatical

Feeling a bit scaly 
and my usual fleet-footed
I followed a lizard
into an evaporating wash -- 
somehow, all living critters
eventually enter the wash -- the 
lizard looking for insects, and the
coyote looking for lizards
and to drink from a puddle
of water -- more like
a thimble full, the sun reclaims
quickly when 120 -- dwellers learn
to conserve, survive on less
in the desert;  did not see
one environmentalist though;
probably in a comfy college
dorm, or staff lounge, sipping ice-tea,
writing his or her next hit piece, main
focus on how he or she suffers along with
a greatly abused planet.  Gulp, gulp!
Honestly, I prefer the company of lizards, 
coyotes, and an occasional rattler -- always
having found the desert far more hospitable
than Arid intellect.

Premium Member Artist, please yourself


     Artist, please yourself above all others ~

       for the sin of praise, the truth is smothered

The eyes of the masks I don’t want to look into anymore

I like nature;
it is calm.
It has its truth
that I want.

The truth I search for in every soul,
not the masks I get to see
but the hidden faces I want to know.

I once had a mask.
It feeds you lies to keep it alive.
But being alive doesn’t matter
if it hunts you down
and burns your soul on the inside.

Because you think the outside
wears a disguise,
but with the clock ticking
it shows your cries —

shows the world how helpless you are,
and then the mask doesn’t help you at all.

So be like nature,
be its calm.
Grow yourself how you want.
Find the people who love the truth
and show you, with every heartbeat,
their love for you.

To Charlie

Truth is an orphan
alone in the wind
License for others
who hide from within

Facing the storm
without fear or excuse
A guardian steps forward  
— with hope to infuse

(To Charlie Kirk: September, 2025)

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