Long Sophist Poems

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 spoke of four qualitative elements
of Nature ;
As Earth , Air , Fire and Water...

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The Estranged [A dedication]

         Jay was sitting in his small cell
         His head resting on the rails
  ...

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Thinking it sophisticated, he declared himself a sophist. 
Dwelling deep in Plato’s cave, he became learned in the shapes of shadows. 
Enamored by their dim dancing, he concluded there can be no truth.
One day he...

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Oh, ancient Greece, 
How much you have filled my soul.
The aesthetics of your kind, 
Are more than satisfied
By your beautiful eyes.

The epics of grace, 
Odysseus and Helen’s sublime face.
The war between two cities, 
And a...

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Trouble-some Peace Offering
A warm weather,
Heat at its peak,
The sun smiles at the earth, 
Plants welcome it arrival,
As usual the patriot at home,
Music at the corners of the 
Building,
Voices echoing outside while
The music gets higher,
Wow my...

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A sophist saint in ancient Grecian land, 
Said whatever he said was a falsity. 

Was asked to state anything before he died, 
When once he'd committed an act of crime. 

He would be hanged, if...

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When I'm pining for the power to yield
Breaking all the branches I seize
Acres for the taking in a forest of mistakes
I can't see for the trees

I level
With the shallow playing field
Dreaming up a blueprint to...

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When I opened my eyes, Mum’s love as my first sight
Those everlasting enjoys, Wrapped in a loving mist

laughing all with joys, Running to be a specialist
Unaware of the future ploys, of those so called sophist

Got...

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The magazine cover page had a picture 
Strange, 
Out of the norm.
All those expositions of creative writing
are not pure and divine, nor sober as well.
A hypothetical extravaganza of law-breaker laws.
There is no validity of empty...

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Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 25

Followers are made from day one in the womb
Not gods but by men in the full-length skirt
Pavlov mice all salivate stunned stark in tomb

Do not men in frocks...

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Look at the stars, look at how they shine for you and everything you do
                    ...

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Now a day's I find everywhere
good advice from everyone
-at an office, at a dramatic stage,
-at the political stage, at night talk show on TV
-at a speech of Friday Masque,
Or at every religious place
-at a crowded...

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Pedants fume helpless and seethe with rage,
But linguists surrender to the age,
Media always misuse
Commoners to confuse,
But rage not, time has turned a tired page.
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It is the age of freedom, free for all. Words are used...

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Thinker, scholar, sophist; Duns was, yet, a humanist,
His thoughts actions exhibited him as true philanthropist…!

Constructing a metaphysical argument, he said,
Of the existence of God, that like rivers moves ahead…!

Aristotle or Aquinas need not be great...

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My Sophist self hardly entertains the idea of air
and space is too immense, to damn big to occupy.
I project myself into the world, meet a friend 
for coffee, pass by a parking meter, perplexed.
This is...

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O when I am safe in my mobile home, 

I tread on the pride of visible gnome; 

Over sapien’s head I walk aloft, 

With tender feet treading so soft, 

To habit in, and it more...

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