Best Philosophical Poems

Poverty
Poverty is a curse for human society
Poverty prevails there where the injustice is
Poverty exclaims there where the illiteracy is
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MAN, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
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Each one of us believe in different creed
Each one of us have religious sects we belong to
Just to satisfy our souls' spiritual needs
To believe in different icon of Gods and Goddesses
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Never thought I may have to leave and pack
Did not pay serious attention or looked back
When time approached, I was caught unaware
Everybody should think over it and prepare
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~ Newton ~ Einstein ~ Marx ~ Derrida ~
Ms. Nivedita
UK
June 6,2010
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I went to the rivers. Rivers asked me, "Do you know we're alive? "
I went to the oceans. Oceans asked me, "Do you know we're alive? "
I went to the pebbles. Pebbles asked me, "Do you know we're alive? "
I went to the rocks. Rocks asked me, "Do you know we're alive? "
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O my mind,
Worship the lotus feet of the Indestructible One!
Whatever thou seest twixt earth and sky
Will perish.
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What is basis for philosophy to usher?
How does it gain ground and prosper?
How other intelligent person can be influenced?
How one’s own self can be forgotten or reduced?
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One word falls as another rises
to the surface of my mind,
together they create the start
of what life means to me.
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Hail, Muse! et cetera.--We left Juan sleeping,
Pillow'd upon a fair and happy breast,
And watch'd by eyes that never yet knew weeping,
And loved by a young heart, too deeply blest
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I miss you,
my good friend, Tom.
The world I live in
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Respected poetess madam
Legend Star (किंवदंती सितारा)Valsa George

[Note: This review letter is World Poetry Day Special Comprehensive Review published on date 21st March 2019 and Gift given on Occasion of Happy Holi Celebration for date 22nd March 2019]
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I'm like a painter seeking her color,
Or like a singer seeking her voice,
Or like a philosopher seeking herself...
Neither like, nor unlike a painting, is this color
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Respected poetess Madam
Wonder Jasmine Sylvia Frances Chan

[Note: This review letter is World Poetry Day Special Comprehensive Review published on date 21st March 2019 and Gift given on Occasion of Happy Holi Celebration for date 22nd March 2019]
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Incipit Liber Quintus.

Aprochen gan the fatal destinee
That Ioves hath in disposicioun,
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This floating clouds on the wind above
And flowing river from the stream of the mount
When passing thoughts settles in mind
It makes us restless to write.
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Oh dear fellow poets of Poem Hunter,
Having poetic journey with you here,
I have read many thousands of poems,
Many, many poems I have overlooked.
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As I walk through life alone, I wonder
What you must be thinking about me,
My LIFE...That, am I trying to escape,
Or to take you for granted?
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Respected poet sir
Devotional Gratitude (भक्ति कृतज्ञता)Tirupathi Chandrupatla Ji

You will be happy to know that I have picked up your poem titled, "With Great Splendor, " and comprehensively line by line reviewed it on date 23 February 2019. This is posted below your poem in many comments. The complete review I am attaching here for your future reference.
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Hast thou the infant seen that yet, unknowing of the love
Which warms and cradles, calmly sleeps the mother's heart above--
Wandering from arm to arm, until the call of passion wakes,
And glimmering on the conscious eye--the world in glory breaks?
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MY POEM TODAY: Tuesday 16 August 2022

a poem?
heavy or light?
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Reading requires time
Time needs patience
without reading there is no way
to acquire knowledge
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This day is delighted with sunlight,
The day is reading your lovely poems,
So, I have also read few of them,
You are really a great poetry lover
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Oh Papa...

You defined love
For everything new and fresh,
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THE HISTORY OF
MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
IN VERSE
BY
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An Extraordinary Day!

Today is an extraordinary day
what day then?
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Read the philosophical question: Does something exist
if nobody is experiencing it - a Walkman playing when
nobody with earplugs is listening, illustrates it is com-
pletely irrelevant to wonder whether something exists
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Oh Lord! How much I wish
I hadn’t said anything
On this wordy Taittiriya mesh*
That entraps our thoughts
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Since ages, the clot of blood
And the bones covered with flesh
Nicely smoothen with skin
Asked the Almighty, Who I am?
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Listening to the Philosophical lectures
By expert Ph.D scholars,
I was zapped.
I did not understand a word.
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It little profits that, an idle man,
On this worn arch, in sight of wasted halls,
I mope, a solitary pelican,
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That wise..old sage..
A philosophical...gent
....Legends...he shared
And wisdom.........he lent
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'Nothingness'......
Very insignificant word,
Still it is truly significant
In the deepest sense,
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Fountainhead of all spiritual learning,
Featuring the essential knowledge,
Feast for the souls that seek
Finesse in thought, word and deed,
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Discomfort
Is a unique measurement
Of self-esteem.
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We keep peddling the empty promise
For the life of prosperity
to soothe the wounds of the heart
Heart respites no mercy until the bitter end.
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(Poet wrapped in agile Poems)

Just the other day
My longtime dear friend,
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Advaita Vedanta is
The most philosophical of
The ‘Darshanas' or
The six schools of
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Her mysteries
Also, her spiritualist smile
Are worth deciphering
Deep down inside her heart
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Not all trains of thought go somewhere.
Poetry is a Trust that an inceptive concept, even
maybe only a single word, can become something
that means something emotional or philosophical
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Don’t read my work
and claim to see
something that there may not be.
Don’t shred my words
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(**In continuation to Medieval Philosophy after St Augustine
Part -III, on page 3)

PRELUDE TO SCHOLASTICISM
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Read a book about rich and famous
And thought so this is what
A life of wealth is all about
Heard the news and wondered
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My donkey can speak and he has forgotten to bray like others
I tell him to speak about these times
And he speaks like a god of our yesterdays.
He nods his head all the while and silences my ‘nays’
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Vedas could be broadly divided
Into two categories:
The Karmakanda and
The Jnanakanda!
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(In continuation from end of Part -I, 'Advent of Christianity'
on page 4, sl. no..68.)

* PART – II *
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1. My Criterion For Success

You say you find merit in a theory that is based
on a meaningless universe, created by chaos -
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lonely
dropped a word to me today

said
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Psychological
I write philosophically
narrative poems
added with a touch of
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I thought of me
Several times
In present context
While writing poems and text
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Son, son oh my dear son, dear son,
What are you doing now there?
Are you busy in reading or writing?
Or are you busy in reciting poems?
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What was there before big bang?
If there was nothing who created a ting?
Who thought of force
Behind the world and its course?
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Hesper again his heavenly power display'd,
And shook the yielding canopy of shade.
Sudden the stars their trembling fires withdrew.
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From our hand
Thursday,24th October 2019

Life is for us to define
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Much against the passive,
affective experience
of the theologians of darkness,
the theologians of light
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We need to evaluate
Then relate
What is good for us!
And then trust
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We need to evaluate
Then relate
What is good for us!
And then trust
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I took my morning stroll in the drizzle
Up and down in Tucson
An umbrella resting on my shoulder
Between a grandma mesquite
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Why is it when I'm doing what dogs do,
what dogs are designed to do,
then I'm a Bad Dog?
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(**Continued from 'Medieval Philosophy&Scholasticism'-
on page no.3)

ST THOMAS AQUINAS (1225-1274) :
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Its the nasty little sting of corrupt
Its the morbid fascination of ones mind
A certain kind of psychopathic personality
That bends, their souls, into unkind.
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Death is stop gap arrangement between life and non life
It may not spare anybody including husband and wife
It is new beginning for another birth somewhere else
We think so much unnecessarily in this regard and remain tense
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Accept no remorse

It is philosophical unbalance
And have some reasons
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I prayed sincerely
And sang few verses happily
It was not out of curiosity
Or daily practice to almighty
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Geoffrey Chaucer: (2)

This is the sequel of Introducing Geoffrey Chaucer, medieval English poet
He was an exceptionally gifted author and poet, Chaucer had a busy public life as a soldier, courtier, diplomat, and civil servant, serving a variety of public functions.
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Tis with a grace that she carries her burden
Never asking others to lighten her load
What monumental responsibilities she has
A philosophical shepherd tending her flock
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Thanks to those who come to
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write and share poems
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The Intelligent Friend is who understands your Glance - that you need a Boost
The Compassionate Friend is who makes his Tender Arms your Easy Warm Roost

The Caring Friend is who pleases you when you are in World-Weariness
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We need to evaluate
Then relate
What is good for us!
And then trust
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The body has grown leaving the mind behind.
Our lifestyle has grown leaving life's true meaning behind.
Science has rapidly grown leaving our philosophical growth behind.
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Coming to poetry site of PoemHunter.com
Reading at random poems of various icons
Like watching rainbow of colors in sunshine
From prism of window glass design
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September 2016 soon will be at its glorious end,
so HURRY if, for Sept., a poem you plan to send …
or it may end up in this October 'A'Section.
[Proofread each poem; I don't expect perfection! ]
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The lofty philosophical thoughts
That began flowing like a little rivulet with
The ‘Mantras'- Hymns addressed to Gods and Goddesses,
Then, the ‘Samhitas'-A collection of Mantras, further
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‘Nature has given to man a disposition to pity,
and the power of comprehending truth.'

—Voltaire, ‘A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume III.'
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This wonderful moment of beautiful time,
Ending of night we feel and we feel light,
Still you shine in horizon as usual in love,
Dear moon, we feel your glitter of happiness.
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Don't waste your time speaking aloud
Against someone you don't have proud:
Otherwise you may say a hard word
And hurt deeply like a blade of a sword!
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Hail, holy Peace, from thy sublime abode
Mid circling saints that grace the throne of God!
Before his arm around our embryon earth
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****PHILOSOPHER PLATO IN VERSE
(427 -347 BC)
Background:
Around 427 BC, a boy child named Aristocles,
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Doctors’ waiting rooms.
Dentists’ waiting rooms.
Goldfish etc.
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I have no new word to utter.
No magic philosophical mutter.
Not anything to say
that was not said another day.
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If your looking for the smart guy in the corner its me.
using the comparative method of etymology you will
find the definition of poet is me.
if i was a dinosaur i would be a thesaurus.
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Never a miracle
But only cycle
And gift from nature
To make beautiful future
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Living- simple art
Tuesday,17th November 2020

A hungry man will have no appetite
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(1)
Oh Papa...
You passed away!
Away from our
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Accurately expressed sentiments, very nice poem.
But remember this, you are not alone, we will all be part of the past, but the important thing to ask is did we live according to our own terms and not according to some other's dictates?
Please keep on writing, you enliven Poem Hunter.com by your presence.......
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Philosophical Molecules
February 26, 2023

Mission, Vision, Motion
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Sitting on an island in the sky
Wiping my eyes to see through the clouds
Swimming outside the box aware
of the differences within the crowd.
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My approach to poetry comes from my wish
To set words dancing, even if the dance
Is like hippos wearing tutus in FANTASIA.
Fact-based musings want to join the lyrical mix;
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I have seen in your eyes
A sun traveling the night
Its light harvesting the darkness
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Fountain pens rosy-gold, burgundy, golden-silver,
filled with poetic ink: eager to ejaculate on to the page
in a synchronised orgasm of emotions and opulence…
The Oxford Thesaurus with its aromatic cocktail of words,
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The night ended to greet the morn
As the world around
Boomed and flared
With Diwali fire
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The clock is clicking
It is clicking to show just then
A time span of one second
Has become the past
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The greatest farce ever perpetrated has to be beyond a shadow of a doubt, evolution. It fits every requirement of a farce. It is a complete lie that has been buried beneath so many others it has become a pure comical tragedy within itself. There are even many other farces that have been built around it. Evolution was nothing but a hypothesis; yes a guess as to why there was a variation in the fossil record, it was never anything more than that. But its perpetrators made so much money and had so much fun with it they continued to build upon it. To think it has gone on for more than a century, and has destroyed the very morals of our society, also makes it perhaps the greatest tragedy too.

The farce is built upon so many lies for so many years it would take an eternity to destroy every one. Thus, their plan worked. One might say it was brilliantly perpetrated, but the fact it can be so easily destroyed with just common sense, allows one to believe it's not so brilliant, as its believers so gullible. It's like a shoplifter caught red handed with a pair of glasses on his face bearing the store label with today's date and no receipt of purchase, after the clerk has pointed out the fact and they continue to leave the store; or a murderer with a smoking gun in his hand, loot in the other and a dead woman's body lying a few feet away with powder burns on her chest clothed only in underwear inside her own residence; saying, 'let's keep an open mind, shall we? '
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The life is exquisitely a battle field
where we have to wage war
at different stages of our life
why not this war is bloodless
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BEHOLD the 21st Century!
Where Our Brothers&Sisters Are In Penitentiary,
Some Accomplished homicide,
While Others Commited Suicide.
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Lovely death marks the ending of all the
Beginning of things irrespective of
Human hierarchies and achievements. As the belly of
The dust never full or have constipation,
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I limit myself to one glass of wine,
maybe two, of an evening. Remember
the inscription on the Jade Mountain
from ancient China, 'Only one glass
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Inscriptions borrow colors of sky and earth, which are the mediums in which they transpire.

Distinguishability is bestowed on them by the purity of a weathered wall.
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