The Magic of Worthwhile

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Poetic Form: Verse

Inspired: 2024 July 18

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Writers write to master the minds
like mine to master, be thines,
5th century Greek writers Patriarch
Herodotus, Thucydides and Plutarch.

They savor the flavor, 'Land Battles', be
Persia and Greece, intro 5th century.

Persian priests', called it magosh, then,
Greeks termed the word magoi when
it changed to mageia and then magika,
hence, precedes that illusion, magical. 

The battle itself was a point of focus,
but in reality, 'twas an uprising tempest,
all that matters merely meant confusion,
purpose the word, magic, sort of illusion.

At the start, a keen preceptor will take,
while the rest, smoke and mirror, mistake
goal to amuse, jam and jelly seize a fainted
a riddle connects the dots, numbers painted
a true picture of the taken as the takers smile
'MAGIC', those who knew & misknew, worthwhile.

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Kim Rodrigues

Date: 7/19/2024 8:55:00 AM

A fun write that can be read several times to decipher or soak and savor in the words…very interesting history! ((hugs and aloha))

Hilo Poet
Date: 7/19/2024 10:40:00 AM

Some would see the manifestations of a trick earlier than most who'll see it at the end--because they did not see the distraction. That's why the Persians reasoned that word to explain the Greeks trickery was the Persians focus on the battle and not the war that comes unnoticeably, Aloha William