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Empedocles Poems - Poems about Empedocles


Vanity

...Vanity
A poem about vanity in life inspired by Ancient Greek Wisdom

As I wake up abruptly every single dawn
With my body still asleep on futility’s lawn
My spirit needs a fiery, enervating quic...
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Categories: empedocles, allegory, life,
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: empedocles, appreciation, beauty, grandchild, heart,
Form: Ballad



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: empedocles, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima

' Empedocles '

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Earth
Air
Water
Fire

~ Terrestrial home
~Realms of soaring Eagles
~Kingdom of marine treasures
~Flaring effulgence

" CLASSICAL ELEMENTS "

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Categories: empedocles, nature, philosophy, life, love,
Form: Free verse

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: empedocles, historymen, hate, life, love,
Form: Rhyme




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