Best Heraclitus Poems

Heraclitus!
Can we never step in the 
Same water twice?
For other waters are forever 
Flowing onto us!
I try to think of ways to 
Cheat your wisdom.
What if the waters are frozen?
Surely then I can keep what 
I never want to lose?
But a frozen stream like
An icy...

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Heraclitus :
The world continues to be in a state of flux ,
Where strife (Nekos) and love (Philia) , 
Are the dividing and uniting forces in control ,
To ensure the balance and unity of the whole !
Harmony is the union of opposites ; 
Just as the...

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THE PLURALISTS : Empedocles & Anaxagoras

That single primary substance the ‘arche’ of
the Ionian philosophers ,
Was challenged by Emphedocles (b.495BC)
and Anaxagoras(b.500BC) !
Emphedocles spoke of four qualitative elements
of Nature ;
As Earth , Air , Fire and Water !
And also of two mythical beings - love and hate...

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Greek philosopher Heraclitus: 
“We can’t, though this sounds ridiculous, 
dip even our five toes 
into water that flows
through the same stream twice; ‘flux’ won’t let us."...

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Coming home' poems -
all missing the point. You can't
come home; you are home....

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The river flows, and in its twisting
it breaks and rebuilds itself,
a perpetual motion that devours itself
and gives birth to time.
It is night in the heart of day,
light in the depths of darkness,
a fire blazing in the silence of the world,
and there, where shadows gather,
lies the...

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