Long Plutarch Poems
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Ode On a Painting"Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting that speaks" _ Greek philosopher, Plutarch
O hearts that breathe with nature breath!
O eyes that dipped in heaven's wine!
O souls in world of pain who...
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Categories:
plutarch, adventure, allegory, allusion, blessing, life, longing, lost,
Form:
Ode
Sing, Lyre: Sappho TranslationSappho, fragment 118
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Sing, my sacred tortoiseshell lyre;
come, let my words
accompany your voice.
"Quoted by Hermogenes and Eustathius. Sappho is apparently addressing her lyre. The legend is that Hermes made the first...
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Categories:
plutarch, Lullaby, muse, music, song, sound, spoken word,
Form:
Epigram
Archimedes - the First Pioneering Streaker of History !Friends , I present to you a slice of History about the ancient Greek scientist and
mathematician Archimedes , who ran naked across the street
of Syracuse , in his birthday suit, after he discovered the...
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Categories:
plutarch, historylost, birthday, history, lost,
Form:
Narrative
The Dilettante Diaries: All Roads Lead Home
The Dilettante Diaries: "All Roads Lead Home"
All Roads Lead Home
Poems
Stories
Detours
Stepping Stones
All Roads Lead Home
(Lovejoy-Burton/October 2018)
"Where we LOVE is home -
home that our feet may leave,
but not our hearts".
About Inner...
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Categories:
plutarch, daughter, freedom, journey, love, mother, my child,
Form:
Free verse
Painting"Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting that speaks" _ Greek philosopher, Plutarch
O wondrous piece of world of art!
Which painter gave thee lasting breath ?
Thou wilt remain till final day!
So far...
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Categories:
plutarch, dedication, destiny, feelings, inspirational, inspirational love, longing,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Erudition May Not Go With EducationI'm sure everyone has met a few of these:
Planning on college but can't formulate a sentence
or spell shoe
Still they want a degree so they think college will do
Many leaders in the world never had a...
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Categories:
plutarch, education, giggle, hilarious, humorous, people, satire,
Form:
Couplet
The Perfect Painting: Painting and Poetry In OneWith her brush and canvas, she charily dash
Slowly and surely, never ever she rushed
Each stroke a decisive measured stoke
Yielding a beauty of light and heavy poke
A family of emotions, she does evoke
Even palette of events...
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Categories:
plutarch, art, feelings, inspiration,
Form:
Quintain (English)
Spirit Species"To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage" - Plutarch
~
water ...
as home to me as air
to...
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Categories:
plutarch, animal, appreciation, sea,
Form:
Free verse
No Bird ever soared in a calmHow can I fly like a bird he dreamed
this man and his brother, with little formal education.
So they dreamed and watched,
they studied and read.
Dickens and Twain, Virgil and Plutarch also.
They worked hard in Dayton and...
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Categories:
plutarch, history, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Peloponnesian Placepo'And so life comes to pass
Plato, the Republic, and the riposte of revenge
Knowing history can never fully extend
The Socratic palm of philosophy’s heavy hand
Poisoned by power's thirst for peaceful Persian seas
Which stir lush groves of...
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Categories:
plutarch, allegory, confusion, introspection, life, people,
Form:
Free verse
The Magic of WorthwhileWriters write to master the minds
like mine to master, be thines,
5th century Greek writers Patriarch
Herodotus, Thucydides and Plutarch.
They savor the flavor, 'Land Battles', be
Persia and Greece, intro 5th century.
Persian priests', called it magosh, then,
Greeks termed...
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Categories:
plutarch, character, confusion, fun, happiness, imagery, imagination, magic,
Form:
Rhyme
The Paranoia Poetry Club RevisitedGot my Dictionary of Quotations,
The Greek Myths of Robert Graves,
Plutarch for beginners’
How The Ancient World Behaves;
Back at the Paranoia Poetry Club,
Local Intellectual Branch
And that collection of books
Might just give me a chance
Of understanding the words...
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Categories:
plutarch, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Poverty“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment
of all republics.” ~Plutarch, Greek Philosopher and historian.
Poor people...
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Categories:
plutarch, poverty,
Form:
Acrostic