Best Aristotle Poems

O' That Aristotle Should Return To Proclaim

O' that Aristotle should return to proclaim
wise, worldly words written with furious winds.
Reveal more wisdom, garner even more fame
point to history, prophecy - all such portends.

Only if Homer could grace greens of earth again
gift words of heroic deeds, warriors...

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'Twas two old men from Greece, is said;
Who sold two bottles of potion.
One was logic, pure and simple-
The other was pure emotion.
What bitter rivals they were
Both persuasive in their way,
Each believed his potion best-
The battle would often sway:

"Mine is more refined,
And truth the only good;
While...

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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...

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SLEEP AND ARISTOTLE.

How to get a good night's sleep--
Instead of enumerating sheep,
Recline beautifully with Aristotle,
Don't decline, hit that bottle,
What does rhyme with Aristotle?
I ponder passing parades of axolotls,
Maybe Australia's golden wattles,
Driving by, foot on throttle,
Yes, they all rhyme with Aristotle,
Maybe I shouldn't hit that bottle,
I'll...

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Aristotle Had No Play-Dough

Aristotle
Never liked to dawdle.
He studied under Plato
But by no means played with play-dough.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 22, 2010

Poetic form: Clerihew...

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Plato to Aristotle….”you made your bed, now sleep in it”

Aristotle to Plato….”if you lie down with dogs expect to arise with fleas”

Plato to Aristotle….”Ekphrasis makes strange bedfellows”

Aristotle to Plato….”never wake a sleeping blog”

Plato to Aristotle….”no matter how you slice it, it’s still baloney”

Aristotle to Plato…”sleep...

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Poetics Poem 5

********(Mimesis)******

Dear Aristotle, where, then, 
Do the Arts fit?  
You say each of them
Falls to mimesis, but their works, to me,
Erupt into present moments
Wearing immediate faces - not masks -
Speaking their own lyrics
Without consideration of what came
Before or will come  afterwards,
Presenting a...

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“The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”

Said quote attributed to Aristotle,
     stands the test of time,
     and not only did out last
many another aphorism,
     but most any learned person,
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Beethoven to roll over,
     dee composing
     (sans my zany brainy adherence
     to "FAKE" information I eschew)
and essentially single handedly grew
the contemporary paradigm few
off fish shill educated
     people didst swallow

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Such is the way reason lived fate,
Imprints of thoughts in vivid streams;
Glimpse truth's fond rays through lively gates,
Notions well sought in range and themes;
Strong treatise greets the learned style.
Adjust to show where knowledge stands;
Reach profound meet in gaze worthwhile,
Instruct and grow while learning can;
Success sees...

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Have you ever heard of
The name of a poet?
Who died for his lover
And had a good name

Maybe you should know
That it's been a few years
And I missed you like
Nobody knows

Can't see mist , only air
Can't see smoke , for a care
I need myself to be
Proclaimed...

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Outside the mind
they’re no universals
Conflation and trend
— humanity’s bane

(Dreamsleep: October, 2024) 
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Do something before you’re stopped by Logic,
Logic: scarcely a good friend of Magic
Rapidly grabbing its territories
Even seizing Magic’s toiletries!

Do something before Logic gets tragic,
The hardest of blows landing on Magic.
I see you side fast with Aristotle
In quest of the same size, same title.
Midcourse, you turn...

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