Wisdom Words Poems | Examples

These Wisdom Words poems are examples of Words poems about Wisdom. These are the best examples of Words Wisdom poems written by international poets.


Premium MemberScales And Measures

Every statement I make
is a question to someone -- 
how we juxtapose truth
and conviction.  All seeing
the same things slightly different…
looking for toll-free bridges,
no one wants to pay the actual
dims and weight.  

Even love has a price-tag, 

draws of cards and petals for mulch.

It’s too often about recognition,
needing outside sources to
feel internally alive and poignant,
the God connection, for many
in those lonely physical hours
seeming not remedy enough.
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I sat to measure the sky,
its width and depth, 
limited by my senses...
I thought to measure my
heart, limited by your feelings --


Premium MemberF N

Truth, a 5 letter word
should have more emphasis
than the 4 letter words
now having gained favor
in our language – children
use them freely, example
set by parents.  F this and
F that...F n good grade son,
daughter.  Don’t be late
for F n school.  Listen to
what the F n priest says,
He knows F n Best.  God
only has 3...fearing soon
another acceptable 4th -- 
I know, F this preachy write, 
just more of the F n worthless
Same!  I can see the next
new bible translation: Paul 
accidentally spilled
the sacrament wine, and 
Christ was F n irate....

Premium MemberThe Gap Between Bookends

the last page is gone
torn cleanly out of the book
no final words wait
the story stops mid-sentence
somewhere beyond the torn spine

endings gather there
each one wanting to be true
none can reach the door
every ending stays alive
on the lost page still in flight

perchance it escaped
slipping quietly from print
into someone's thoughts
weaving space between bookends
the story scripts the reader

Premium MemberWords

Do you paint with words?

Well, maybe you are a poet!

Of course, all words, by themselves
are morgues for art~ stores for outwardly
portraying

one’s private thoughts and feelings in
colorful, expressive ways.  The baby 
paints her own basic language – cries her 
picture gestures, 

hopefully appropriately responded to 
by loving parents, often challenged 
to transcribe 
a vaguely familiar, long forgotten 
non verbal~frantic vocabulary –    

So, words are clearly voice: while liquid,
like blood and oils – they are colorful, the
pigments of flowers and death -- 

and when a relationship fails, the essence 
of words are what
we frame and tearfully regret.

Premium MemberPenumbra

penumbra gathered at the edge of evening,  
that quiet border where outlines loosen  
and the world seems to reconsider itself.  

I walked through it without urgency,  
letting the muted light imbue each surface~  
a fencepost, a drifting leaf, my own breath~  
the dimness offering a wisdom untouched by light.

a quiet drift of air brushed the understory
as if uncapping a bottle of elixir  
mixed from resin, cool bark, and the faint  
metallic scent of approaching night.  

nothing reached out for meaning~
yet the moment felt quietly inhabited,
as if presence itself were enough.


Premium MemberWriting Portraits

With pen in hand,
while others quantity scribble
the poet choice-fully writes….

(The latter requires more
thought, and perhaps less
feature – a truer poetic portrait 
minimal angel a bit creature -- )

Premium MemberLast Words

Do you want your last words noted,
oft repeated, and endlessly quoted?
More than wit and wisdom, you'll need timing,
and, in my case, they'll be rhyming.

Premium MemberOmnipotence

Love can do little more than suppose
an eternity.  Your charming
inspiration drawing me deeper
into The Poet’s Right of Lyric
Passage.  Conclusion: a writer
only dies outside his text – each
composition a fond tease of 
omnipotence.

Premium MemberDevotion

So much to be said
and only a lifetime together
to say it -- 
So much love yet to give -- 
hoping we can hook-up
in the life hereafter….

Premium MemberThoughts on Oughts

Some days are strewn 
with oughts
and pending obligations;
others with
ought-to-have—
ought-not-to-have
must-do
have-to
need-to
better-not
maybe
maybe-not.

Then on quieter days it's
what-if
why-not
if-only
what-might-have-been.

forget-me-not
has seen better days,
then again—
perhaps, 
perchance
oughts 
have become 
noughts
or neighs
time's up—
just do it—
let's dance!

Premium MemberTo Pour

We pour parts of us into
every poem~ a self-inflicted
wound, the point of a pen
drip, drip, spurt, spurt – a Fever 
Abater --  

Ideally One’s Spirit~ a positive Universal 
Donor!
        
Breaths and words, inseparable
are cousins with heartfelt translations -- 

Life-force, heart, soul~ Divine opportunity inherent in
every vehement articulation – may our pronunciations
be those of love and forgiveness~ “Live long and
prosper” as that Great Vulcan, Spock, bade us.

Premium MemberLife Comes With Broken Promises

"What I have Learned about Broken Promises is Priceless." By Poet
As a young child, friends would make a promise. They would break their word, followed by hurt. The dating world was famous for this trick, as boys loved to break their promise. Did it make them feel powerful? Maybe! My dad was a very wise person, he never made many promises. Guess he knew the pain hiding behind words, words that were unkept are friends with lies. He would say, we will see or maybe. I knew if he had made me a promise, it was guaranteed to be done. So glad this lesson was learned as a child, thanks dad.

Premium MemberKeeping It Real

Keeping it real this
morning, writing of the 60’s -- 

Bandstand, cookies-and-cream,

hot-dogs and home-runs -- 

M&M Boys, swinging for the crown! 

No brow-burner~ a basic poem
without the fancy footwork of Astaire 
and Rogers; no dangling metaphors 
Like Hand-jive with knives, sanguinary
Greaser-floors -- 

Poetry is not written to be read

More like, lived to be written -- 

And then by those natures so inclined
who survive, in verse form to the rest
of us unwashed, spoon-fed.

Premium MemberAHHH

       AHHH…

The sexing of words…
An ****** of wisdom:
Awareness coming…

Premium MemberCrepe Paper Views

 	Better suited for waste 
           than for news

         Wise folk tear them up 
           ~ these crepe paper views

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