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Democritus Poems - Poems about Democritus


Premium MemberInside This Cave

...Inside this cave, my refuge, nave
I bend and stretch and breath, 
to find myself among the ruins 
of ancient places, faces, and history. 

Although I strive to change the tide
of my own motivat...
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Categories: democritus, allusion, history,
Form: Rhyme

The Table of Knowledge

...A Geek philosopher named Democritus
With his companion Leucippus
Believed matter is made up of tiny particles.
It is hardly noticeable.

At the turn of the 19th century
Dalton’s atomic Theory p...
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Categories: democritus, 9th grade, high school,
Form: Free verse



The Hyper-Logos of Good Living

...The Hyper-Logos of Good Living  

A poem about how to live a more balanced and harmonious life inspired by Ancient Greek Wisdom

Avoid being vicious and malevolent,
Instead, be magnanimous and b...
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Categories: democritus, friendship, happiness, humanity, metaphor,
Form: Ballad

Melina: the Rose In My Heart

...Melina: The Rose in my Heart
A poem of love to my blue-eyed wonderful grand-daughter 
inspired by Ancient Greek Wisdom
 
You are the only one, my beautiful
The power of my tiny humble soul
The ...
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Categories: democritus, appreciation, beauty, grandchild, heart,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberThe Truth

...1.
This is Truth that to you, mortals is now speaking, 
I’m the one that in the kernel of everything that exists resides,* 
That no human has ever seen**, up to this very moment and
No one, I aff...
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Categories: democritus, god, love, truth,
Form: Personification



Premium MemberDante's Hell, Fourth Canto, Second Part

...Continuation from previous poem

We reached the footer of a castle steep,
Seven times by walls encircled very tall,
Defended by a river hard to leap.

We overpassed it as hard ground at all;
T...
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Categories: democritus, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima

Greek Philosophy After Heraclitus - Continued In Verse - With the Pluralists

...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 sp...
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Categories: democritus, historymen, hate, life, love,
Form: Rhyme

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