Cleansing from the inside unquestionably brings great relief to the outside.
An Aristotelian concept, cathartic endeavors were connected to the arts.
Theological concepts could be applied as it pertains to spiritual purification.
Heaven is the future home where our hopes of a final Holy Catharsis are realized.
Anxiety and other stressful experiences can be arrested through prayer.
Religion can never create any kind of cleansing that is real or lasting.
Sin and its derivatives have deep roots at levels no human catharsis can reach.
I, and millions more, have discovered the eternal cathartic cure in Jesus Christ.
Science, medicine, and psychiatry are great tools, but they cannot act alone.
05152017FBPSContest, Cathasis, Nayda Ivette Negron, NA
Categories:
aristotelian, anxiety, art, christian, god,
Form: Acrostic
That's just what perfection does -
As hopeful torrid night spills in through stargazing windows
Illuminating shadowy grays drawn by God's hand in charcoal
on taunt, sepia skin. She simply retracts from you, from the floor,
scoffing at all those gaudy tones - the colorful imperfect other.
Despite Aristotelian pleas to logic, propriety
and function, she teases us seductively
dancing motionless in impossible air.
Crouching half naked, poised on Platonic tippy-toes
with perfect condescending balance as if we'd all been naughty girls and boys,
as if a chair were never meant for sitting,
and gravity makes her an exception.
Categories:
aristotelian, beauty, color, philosophy, woman,
Form: Free verse
She is the face of perfection
Facet for affection
Divine connection
A woman's desired reflection
The ideal direction
She is the forest, the rain
On the throne she reigns
She is the wind, the sea
As far as the eye can see
The little things remind you of her humanity
A laugh, a yawn,
A smile, a frown,
If it were not for these signs, then she could have fooled me
On the outside, she is the cosmic masterpiece
Her shining eyes are the centrepiece
Her heart is her mouthpiece
Her voice is enigmatic peace
Her radiance does not decrease
On the inside, she is the ideal city
The Platonic utopia
The Aristotelian polity
A constant state of oxyopia
An esoteric serenity
An ineffable identity
And she satisfies both the rational human and animal appetite
A perfect Manichean dualism
A yin-yang balance of energies
The source of all remedies
Therefore, she cannot be mine
For she is a paragon, and that is the sign
That I should know better
Save the best for the best
And let fate treat the rest
Categories:
aristotelian, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Aristotle's Poetics
Epic poets quite divine in seriousness of truth's glow,
In the world’s poetic distinctions compared to history,
In “Poetics”, Aristotelian logic did clearly show,
Poetry more divinely scientific than factual glory,
Poet truths outshine history’s particular knack for gory!
For Brian Strand Contest
Categories:
aristotelian, education
Form: Quintain (English)
And so life comes to pass
Plato, the Republic, and the riposte of revenge
Knowing history can never fully extend
The Socratic palm of philosophy’s heavy hand
Poisoned by power's thirst for peaceful Persian seas
Which stir lush groves of crimson and Thebian thieves
As sparkling city-states crumble and empires feast
Rome culling the culture crush of golden Greece
Where Herodotus fathered and Plutarch bleeds
Tales of battles, generals, and Hellenic greed
That perhaps Alexander was but a minion of means
Simply a soldier of death's deciduous seed
Born to pass hereditary titles to war's widowed lands
Endlessly reaping the accolades of conquering man
Somehow sown in the tomes of Aristotelian prose
Even construed as a catharsis of glory’s godless throes
So perhaps, someday, conquest will become nothing more
Than tragedy misquoting the late...great...Edgar Allan Poe
Categories:
aristotelian, allegory, confusion, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse