Philosophy Poems
The Iron Philosophy
by Ayatullah Nurjati
What did the nation learn from the fire?
That heat tests more than materials.
It tests values.
In peacetime, discussions about allocations sound administrative.
In times of crisis, he becomes ethical.
Do we build to protect?
Or protect to build?
The question used to seem like a choice.
Now understood as a cycle.
Protection without development results in stagnation.
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Child
by Brandon Rodulfo
They say there’s sheep
and then there’s goat.
I go where my mind goes,
sheep go where I might go. Without a care.
Off to the side a child says—
I want to survive even if I gotta bite
and I just might.
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In Republica
by Fidelis Peter Olowu
The penetration of the radiant Sun rays
Into my solemn hiding place
Woke me up to receive an official routine
salute from the captain of the Cocks
Lifting up my eyes to Meta's green Chambers ,
I beheld the omen, that Trousers and Skirts
Are at daggers drawn for the race to the top
Only one stool there is at the mountain top,
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Oobleck
by Aditi Hayaran
Cornstarch and water blend,
Firm or soft—let's check.
The whimsical non-Newtonian fluid,
It's called Oobleck.
For a tiny test, it's given to two.
Firm for one, soft for whom?
Curious to see the fluid's behaviour?
Let's peek into each room.
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If I Were God
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
If I were God,
In ages past would I have dropped a lone
Cowrie in the middle of the sea.
Dredging begins in the last month.
Every fingerprint beneath it shall lie
Prostrate to inquest.
Let not my lone cowrie be fossilized,
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Bertolt Brecht: 5 : Alienation
by Ghairo Daniels
Dramatist-Poet, genius philosopher
reasoning power a miracle for time
saw art as hammer to shape mind
desired nothing less than to get audience
to act ~ an empath who saw potential of
word as call to action, wanted minds
to witness dual nature of reality
seen, unseen entangled as one
war, alienation his subject matter
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Palmlane
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
Standing on felled trunks and fallen leaves —
Desolate members of a fractured society —
Palms whose long and winding stretch marks emit
Brotherly sustenance among inherited groves.
Aroma hangs preciously on the unseen rafts of
Grottos of local ambience, opening and unlatching
The shut avenues of myth-making tradition.
I stand among them —these
Sober trunks of fertility, and grand crawling soldiers,
Whose water receptacles provide the gush of tasty
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Antidote
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
In sun and in rain,
Toils of broken soles and blistered palms.
And the journey, tedious, ends in the dank
Leaves of a breathless forest; so rancid the undergrowth,
Hissing signals of danger in the darkest foliage of mankind.
I cringed alone.
So unkempt this unholy place, where the sun is
Mocked; so ungraceful, yet so glorious.
So cautious these woods, where the panthers,
At noon, watch with the keenest of eyes, silent.
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The Revelation
by Fidelis Peter Olowu
Mounting and mounting,
The mountaineer
at the mountain top mounts.
Heralding the irrevocable reality -
there is no ascension
at the mountain’s peak.
The gatherer gathers
all his greedy eyes can behold
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When Favours Become Demands
by Fidelis Peter Olowu
They rise like restless lions,
young voices roaring for the world -
roaring for comfort,
roaring for attention,
roaring for more.
Yet many among them
cannot tell the difference
between rights, privileges, and favors.
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