Long Diogenes Poems
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Athenian Epitaphs Ii
Athenian Epitaphs II
These are ancient Greek epitaphs for lost family and friends, including dogs and other animals ...
Now his voice is prisoned in the silent pathways of the night:
his owner's faithful Maltese...
but will...
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Categories:
diogenes, animal, best friend, death of a friend,
Form:
Epitaph
Virtue
… as I child I heard these words by Immanuel Kant from my late Dad
over and over again …’you must act in a way that if everybody did it
your thinking and deeds could be the...
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Categories:
diogenes, character,
Form:
Free verse
Acknowledgements
1. John Desmond Patrick Keegan
2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
3. Sally Aline Mae Beller
4. Charles Edward A. Berry
5. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce...
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Categories:
diogenes, appreciation, dedication, inspiration,
Form:
List
No - I Am Not Prince Hamlet, Nor Was Meant To Be
Pray, my lord, says the priest. ‘Tis sweet balm for the soul,
and he, he sees yours-
Lord, I hope not- you think.
‘O! there are spirits of the air!’
a poet will write centuries after they give you...
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Categories:
diogenes, death, murder, remember,
Form:
Free verse
" Logic? "
To every thing there is a season,
A time to bring the reasoning,
Higher logic` of heart’s project,
Into view, for the mind to review,
For some say the mind` is the only logic,
Leaving love’s heart without a...
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Categories:
diogenes, inspirational, love, mysterydeath, god, tree, death, god,
Form:
Rhyme
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;
Through seven doors I entered with...
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Categories:
diogenes, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Eternity Just Fell
Why don’t you rage Siddhartha.
Rage. Ah. I suffer.
Jesus of Galilee, why don’t you fight back.
I. trust
Prince of the sands, prophets of the Sun
Peace is offered to this gem
Flowers are sprung, but who notices
So…
why...
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Categories:
diogenes, fate, god, nonsense, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Thank You Fellow Poets In Poetry Soup
Thank you fellow poets in poetry soup
For leaving all your kind thoughts and critiques
You have given me the inspiration to continue on
And for that I am humbled and grateful
May twenty ten be filled...
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Categories:
diogenes, thank youautumn,
Form:
Free verse
Cynikos
Cynikos
for Diogenes of Sinope, 4th century B.C. philosopher. ...
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Categories:
diogenes, dog,
Form:
Lyric
What If
Archimedes slipped in the shower
Diogenes drowned in a barrel
...
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Categories:
diogenes, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
Listening To Joan Baez
I sat with rum and Joan Baez the other day
Writing up three poems in Bombay
One short another crooked
Yet not quite a disaster
The other long and sad
Not very bad but still not much more
Than a...
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Categories:
diogenes, nostalgiavoice, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Black and White
Maybe things just had more meaning in my childhood days
We knew the law and we could see the error in our ways
We didn’t need an interpreter for telling wrong from right
The laws were clearly written,...
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Categories:
diogenes, politicalold, old,
Form:
Couplet
What's Sacred
Truculent trucks advert young minds; raging down roads breeding new gods as pompous, glitter covered idols carved from primordial blades of fear. Meanwhile pious pieces of magnesium stone get chiseled out of focus, branded by...
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Categories:
diogenes, deep, faith, introspection, jesus, metaphor, philosophy, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Death for Dummies by a Dummy
"We come into the world alone and we die alone." ~ Diogenes
What was that, Diogenes?
Speak a bit louder if you please.
I'm old and hard of hearing,
and I fear my death is nearing.
Well, anyway, I've never...
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Categories:
diogenes, dark, death, god, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Diogenes
"Blushing is the color of virtue."
You're done.
You melt like a sigh
on the lips of angels.
You've drained
the paleness of injustice,
your own hands tangled up,
aw, the square stare of the truth,
impassable duel of...
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Categories:
diogenes, character, color, courage, endurance, fear, history, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
Diogenes and Alexander
Diogenes, philosopher in Greece,
was said to be a dawdler. "Devil finds
some seedy work for idle hands, don´t fleece
our youth!" He saw the walls in people´s minds
who all declined his odd and frugal life.
He lived on...
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Categories:
diogenes, history, philosophy,
Form:
Sonnet
Curiosity's Footprints
Walking in curiosity's footprints,
I wander through life like a beachcomber.
Placing wit above life's trinkets and chintz,
I seek thinkers and poets like Homer.
Many peg me as a shiftless roamer,
but I am anything but commonplace.
The cosmos gave...
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Categories:
diogenes, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, feelings,
Form:
Dizain
Best Poem Ever
Sitting outside with loose papers on my lap,
a gust blew the top two pages away.
It was a poem that contained some creatures
and the usual clouds and mists
and how fossils feel about mountains.
Like a Borges story,...
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Categories:
diogenes, angst, books, creation, philosophy,
Form:
Lyric
When It Comes To the Travails
when it comes to the travails
of the human heart
logic is a poor study
as Diogenes' wisdom gathers a lantern
searching in vain
there is a deeper reasoning
among the bats gathered in the belfry
ratiocination resting on a slippery slope
grasping...
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Categories:
diogenes, cinderella, destiny, fate, humorous, introspection, nostalgia, wisdom,
Form:
Romanticism
Reluctant To Climb
Diogenes sought an honest man,
appalled by Man's path to destruction.
And searched Athens by lantern at night,
casting light on lies and corruption.
He concluded his search was fruitless;
integrity could be sold and bought.
And Man's willingness to sell...
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Categories:
diogenes, angst, culture, feelings, imagery, integrity, introspection, metaphor,
Form:
Quatrain
Oh Great Courtesan of Ancient Athens (Phryne)
Oh great courtesan of ancient Athens
Remove your cloths and step into the sea.
Astound the hearts of men and women,
A divine answer to all prayer and plea.
The King of Lydia sought out your grace,
But for all...
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Categories:
diogenes, passion, people, places, prayer,
Form:
Sonnet
Diogenes In Search
Diogenes holds a lantern
Hypnotized- the faint light
Eyes search all nooks and turn
Desire in them makes them bright
Drank no voda only lie and deception
Hegemonized- lost- sick of hunger
Pathologized- TRUTH the only medication
Unconscious he is with thirst...
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Categories:
diogenes, courage, faith, trust, truth, wisdom, world,
Form:
Sonnet