About Wisdom...

Hello, Wisdom Writers!

I’d like to share a few poems about wisdom that were posted in our community in April and May. I hope you enjoy them.

Wisdom Writers

What am I not getting?

What is wisdom?

I don't mind anyone expressing themselves as purely out of the current moment.

Is that wisdom?

My cat just spazzed and I don't have the medicine to cope with that.

Hmmm.. very wisdom, so true, heart heart mind lost.

Lemme get you back in line. Yes, that arrogantly: what is wisdom?

Because if wisdom is just whatever is felt then feel this:

Here is a voice

Chosen by choice

Please hear my pain

Misunderstood

Called insane

Pushed out of the group

So sitting aloof

Alone and freezing

Asking again

Why no one is listening.

I made that up.

I'm thirsty for content.

For words strung along some line of a song that comes easy to none and hurts deeply for some when the question in front appears simply because the light in this question to come is about writing some wisdom for none.

by Schlickbart

Seeking Wisdom

A wandering soul,

Claiming wisdom as their goal.

An invitation was taken,

But now confidence is shaken.

Were you seeking truths or enlightenment;

Profound knowledge, rare and poignant?

What was expected,

The Library of Alexandria resurrected?

Would you accept wisdom handed to you?

Or would you dismiss it as most others do?

You say that you want to see,

All the while keeping your eyes shut tightly.

We are but lowly workers in a mine,

Unearthing gems a few at a time.

Love and lust might be unoriginal in appearance,

But is unique when expressed through individual experience.

The foreign language of our hearts is not easy to express,

But really, I think we do our best.

Did you find something confusing,

Assuming that words were written just to be amusing?

Then may I suggest that you go to the source,

And politely ask what inspired their course.

Words without meaning are like food without taste,

But very rarely will this be the case.

Just because you found versicles you don't understand,

Doesn't mean that they're uninspired and bland.

Don't just read the words, read between each line,

Then perhaps—perhaps, wisdom you'll find.

by DungeonMarshal

marked

You've found your way here;

This tragic earth.

Born to it,

your war and reason will carve a path out of nothing.

Wisdom is the love you will keep in your heart.

Sanctum sancti pre a Deus, memento mori pre a vi.

You are made in a house before god, Remember you must die before you live and breathe.....

by meridainroar

Karma

I suppose I exist in the surreal. Fluid, mutable, mercurial. All I know abandoned at my burial. Leaving behind this meta material.

If I forget to remember who I was before. If I miss out on the chance to learn more. Knowledge and truth become such a bore. Oh what a gift to not know what’s in store.
Does the narrator tell it like a serial? Every iteration plays out ephemeral. The soul escapes, its fate is vestigial. Not to know it’s home is ethereal.

Gathering stories in the land of lore. Persona collects within every pore. Laid in a bed far removed from the gore. Living again with purpose to restore.

by NotOfYourKind3721

The Other Side

Struggles feel timeless,
Yet they give us strength.

Tears feel endless,
Yet they bring relief.

Darkness seems evil,
Yet it lets us see light.

Aging feels draining,
Yet it makes us wise.

Breakups seem fatal,
Yet they show us the way.

Nightmares seem brutal,
Yet something's revealed.

Time is so abstract,

Yet it leaves a trace.

Thoughts are intrusive,
Yet they fade away.

Things feel surreal,
Yet they are true.

And if you feel down,

Take a fresh look.

by marine_0204