Demetrios Trifiatis Poet Epigram

Justice Ii

Justice,
Your laws a spider-like web*   
Resemble 
That catches the very little and
Frail
While the big and powerful through
They pass
Without ever leaving a single
Trail! 


© Demetrios Trifiatis
    21 MAY 2013

*In 593 BC, Anacharsis, criticized Solon’s laws by calling them a spider’s web! 
Solon, one of the seven sages of ancient Greece.  Anacharsis a sage and friend of Solon.

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Russell Sivey May 21, 2013 at 5:48 AM You even rhymed Frail with Trail, wow, so very wonderfully done my friend, I am impressed with this write! You have expressed yourself very well with this incredible poem Demetrios! You have shown exactly what you wanted within this piece, and I got just what you wanted to convey! What a tremendous poem, Great Wok!! Demetrios Trifiatis May 21, 2013 at 6:02 AM Thank you my dear friend! Appreciating is co-creating!