Best Ideals Poems

"Laughter the best medicine" it's said
A humorous poem was displayed

"Love is in the air" so 'tis said
A romantic poem captivated feelings

" Lies, lies, lies" is all that's said
The political poem expressed those wrongs

"The death toll reaches 5,000 in Nepal"
A poet views the scenes appalled

Laughter, romance,...

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beautiful, cinderella, crazy, growing up, humor, word play,

Gold Plated Ideals©

The ice-white-capped teeth
Smile and beguile the contacted eye
‘Java’ white-bright tee shirts dazzle 
Plastic letters ironed on right-side in
Shoulders the body making a statement?

Speaks to me of this century’s impurities
Air fresheners smelling of ‘spice’
Coats the hazy circulating...

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Looking up I see the craggy hills glowing in the sun
way above this green lush valley….smiling I
walk under a mantle of tall trees, skipping
along a path of dense leaves and flowers

The air is filled with the music of nature
the buzzing of the bees as they...

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The stars wink above in the heavens high,
I look for Mars, Venus, and lil' Pluto; 
Planets I see but cannot journey go,
Glad still I know that they are in the sky.
The moon revolves around my little world;
The white beams that forever freely shine, 
But I...

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Faith
truth
justice
and progress-
too often unseen...

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Ideals

Ideals 

High ideals?  
We all had them 
In the forties, in college, 
those long, all-night
heated arguments,  
sitting cross-legged 
on the floor,
debating how
to change the world.
Words – ideas,
what we could do
some day.

Twenty years 
before the sixties, 
waves of political injustices 
student revolutions
on campuses
across the...

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the loftier the ideal we set to attain the readier we ought to be ourselves to sacrifice!









© Demetrios Trifiatis
     15 January 2018...

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Snow-covered mountains,
ancient monuments,
a north wind that nods to us,
a thought that flows,
images imbued
with hymns of history,
words on signs
with ideals of geometry....

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I-   Inspiring

D-              Divine

E-                  Exemplars

A-         ...

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No civilization cound ever survive the test of time unless its ideals intact remain!*







(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
       10 August 2016



* History is our witness....

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the pass was a gas
now its a new task
new faces new races
some still have bad taste
there's lives a wastes
they need to fine a fresh meal
now its
NEW FACES NEW IDEALS...

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When ideals die, soon after, civilizations follow them into the grave!*








(c) Demetrios Trifiatis 
       10 August 2016


* Western civilization is witnessing the death of its ideals....

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PLATONIC IDEALS

 draped
in startling beauty
 so elegant

 sensing

colour
 sunflower gold
& buttery yellow
 in enticings
 glimmers of
 flame &scarlet
 green & blue
a little
  a little
 intuitive
&placed
 in  myth


THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma...

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My fellow human,

What would we be without ideals in our lives

But

Wild animals striving their bellies to replenish? 






© Demetrios Trifiatis
    26 January 2021...

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Picturesque and simple with sweet little windows,
Tidy guestrooms beside stylish bedrooms,
A kitchen straight out of a home catalog,
All contain inside plastic walls.
Blush, copper, teal walls leading to a bathroom,
Cobalt blue hibiscus designs on matching tea sets,
Coordinating furniture in every room.
Delicate and perfect from the roof...

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