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Understanding Poems - Poems about Understanding
Understanding Poems - Examples of all types of poems about understanding to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read
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To awaken means to realize one’s own nothingness, that is, to realize one’s
...To awaken means to realize one’s own nothingness, that is, to realize one’s complete and absolute helplessness. As long as a man is not horrified at himself, he knows nothing about himself. Through ......
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Dan Enache
Categories:
understanding,
fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Sometimes, perhaps often when we are young
...Sometimes, perhaps often when we are young, we fall in love without knowing or having experienced real love... that's how we learn... painful at times... happy for a while... but as we grow, we lea......
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Dan Enache
Categories:
understanding,
fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
The Road That Led to The Breezy Beach
...After work, I look for a place to mediate; and that place is a walking distance: there we met, and started dreaming, we were naive kids full of nonsense, we blushed saying words without meaning........
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Andrew Crisci
Categories:
understanding,
growing up, guitar, happiness,
Form:
Lyric
EL NO SABER
...NOT KNOWING There are things that we have in mind that sometimes we believe them so much to the point of not listening to other voices that do not support what we believe today. There are cases wh......
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LUIS ENRIQUE CAICEDO
Categories:
understanding,
absence, allusion, anger, art,
Form:
Blank verse
The Wilderness
...The Wilderness The world around me took my time away... and it tried to take everything else too, but that did not happen. Storms come and go, and we all know the truth of that fact......
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Ann Foster
Categories:
understanding,
adventure, america, appreciation, creation,
Form:
Free verse
Poetrysoup
...Poetrysoup, a place to forget your worries Where you can share freely your stories Where there is no one to judge For, no one harbors a grudge It is a place where all folks are even It is......
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R. B. Cawis
Categories:
understanding,
appreciation, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
HUMILITY
...A modest or low view of one's own importance; humbleness. People are quick to judge one another Never considering, with patience, what's their plight Empathy allows your heart and soul to meet ......
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Floyd Neal
Categories:
understanding,
appreciation, blessing, care,
Form:
Free verse
Beyond Rote
...If we crammed their heads with facts and dates, Ignoring sparks and curious states, Would learning ever truly take root? Children, not clay, for us to sculpt and boot. Tolerance, not rote, a le......
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Dr. Padmashree R P
Categories:
understanding,
care, children, education, growth,
Form:
Narrative
Blind Eyes
...I at times in moment of quiet reflection consider it unfortunate the scars so deeply carved across my heart and soul which take on no outward appearance, for though wounded there is no evidence to th......
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Darrell Rose
Categories:
understanding,
emotions, introspection, sorrow,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Under the heavy aegis of passing time
...Under the heavy aegis of passing time, Centuries have become a burden weighing upon the moment, We are more severed from purity than all the ages, Corpses of empires, our own decay surrounds us. ......
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Dan Enache
Categories:
understanding,
fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Submissive Silence
...What difficult insanity? Repeating every day. Laughing, pure absurdity at life’s prevailing way. The lack of understanding buried deep in darker deeds. Dysfunctional autonomy, that never wil......
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Janis Thompson
Categories:
understanding,
family, feelings, mental illness,
Form:
Rhyme
Do I Mind, Alone, Just Being Thought Silly?
...Alone… would I be wrong to call myself a fool? Knowing full well, alone one never is? Better, much better to say ‘Alone from’. Alone from friends, from loved ones From employment, joy and/or......
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Brian Rusch
Categories:
understanding,
adventure, dance, earth, i
Form:
Free verse
Variational Basis
...A complex domain Of subatomic particles And the dynamics of Physics which works predicts the existence Of a novel tetraquark Compositions of beauty Charm quarks and two-light antiquarks sch......
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Allan Terry
Categories:
understanding,
adventure, business, creation, music,
Form:
Bio
Times They Are A-Changing
... Some people are devious They skirt around the truth But never actually say what they mean I'm assuming because of an ulterior motive Or it's a lack of understanding I would hope it's......
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Jack Ellison
Categories:
understanding,
time,
Form:
Free verse
He has only just begun
..."Through the Holy Gospel we are his messengers." Holy Gospels He guides us to show others With his love and understanding. In each of us, He has only just begun. I am a fledgling in H......
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Speaks Volumes
Categories:
understanding,
life,
Form:
Free verse
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