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
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:
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 "
Four ...
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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