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Tag Archives: One-line Poems
POEM: A Forgetting God
Remembering God is almost as hard as God forgetting us Remembering God can be difficult. Remembering God can be particularly difficult if we are not trying to remember God. I believe that we all experience God, though some of us … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Christian, Christianity, Church, Conservative, Death, Equality, Experience, God, Human Race, Jesus, Life, Love, One-line Poems, Poetry, Puns, Relationships, Religion, Religious, Resistance, Sex, Sexuality, Time
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POEM: Breathing
Thinking about breathing makes it more difficult Amazingly, and quite fortuitously, people can breathe without thinking. Breathing is something we know how to do without having to think about it. Thankfully, thousands of bodily functions fall into this category. Fortunately, … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Balance, Consciousness, Control, Environment, Free Will, Gift, Harmony, Life, Meditation, Nature, One-line Poems, Poetry, Respect, Short Poems, Wisdom
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POEM: Confused
If you are confused, you are well on your way Life can be complicated. If you delve into the intricacies of most any situation or topic, you will find many shades of gray, and undoubtedly some paradoxes or contradictions. If … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Compassion, Diminishing Returns, Enlightenment, Facts, Greed, Life, Modern, One-line Poems, Paradoxes, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Short Poems, Simplicity, Superficial, Values, Virtue, Western Civilization, Wisdom, Work
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POEM: Disillusionment
You say that you’re disillusioned like it’s a bad thing My whole life I’ve heard people talk about being disillusioned in one way or another. Not once have I heard this with anything but a negative connotation. This one line … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Cynicism, Disillusionment, Enlightenment, Gratitude, Hope, Humanity, Illusions, Life, Meaning, One-line Poems, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Truth
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POEM: Rumi-nation
I live in a perpetual Rumi-nation This simple one-line poem reflects a basic experience in my life, in general, and as a poet. As a poet, my mind, at times, drifts into aha moments of epiphanies, and at times, races … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Experience, Illegal, Immigration, Life, Mind, Mystic, Mystical, One-line Poems, Poet, Poetry, Reality, Rumi, Time
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POEM: Paying Attention
Are you too broke to pay attention? This one-line poem most directly seeks to de-link material wealth from perhaps the greatest tool available to humans: consciousness, or mindfulness. Being able to access mindfulness, regardless of wealth, status, or “worldly” power, … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Arrogance, Compassion, Consciousness, Empathy, Enlightenment, Equality, God, Grace, Hubris, Humanity, Humility, Justice, Life, Mindfulness, One-line Poems, Poetry, Power, Reality, Short Poems, Status, Subjectivity, Suffering, Wealth
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POEM: Free Will Compelling
I find the experience of free will very compelling. I like this simple one line poem because it juxtaposes two seeming opposites. Free will is often viewed as some kind of absolute. Compulsion is on the other end of the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Choices, Compulsion, Consciousness, Conundrum, Creativity, Epistemology, Existential, Experience, Free Will, Freedom, Funny, Genius, God, Ironic, Meaning, One-line Poems, Opposites, Reality, Respect, Sartre, Stupid, Subjectivity, Work
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POEM: Arguing with Atheists
Arguing with atheists is like panning for gold in a bathtub. This one line poem is certainly provocative, and probably dangerous. First I would like to concede that I cannot prove that God exists. Secondly, and equally, I don’t think … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Absurdity, Argument, Athiest, Conflict, Existential, Experience, Foolish, God, Heart, Intellect, Life, Materialism, Meaning, Modern, Musings, Objectivity, One-line Poems, Philosophy, Reality, Rules, Scientific Reductionism, Simplicity, Subjectivity, Thiest
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POEM: Actual Pie vs. Pi
Actual pie is way more than 3.14159 times better than mathematical pi. This simple one line poem makes fun of Western civilization’s fixation on the quantitative versus qualitative. It is big business to reduce everything to a number, preferably dollars … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, Poems
Tagged Beauty, Business, Experience, Nature, One-line Poems, Pi, Short Poems, Time, Western Civilization
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