Inside 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
The 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
Dante'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