Long Unexamined Poems

The morning sun filters through dust-laden windows of the district education office like an unwelcome truth trying to penetrate wilful ignorance. Shelves buckle under the weight of untouched research journals like abandoned promises, their spines...

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THREE year olds know about circles. They play
ring around the rosy and here we go round
the mulberry bush. And if one should say 
that in reality nowhere is found
a perfect circle, they either don’t hear
or...

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Look as far and as wide as you can, my friend, 
Turn your eyes towards the sky and try to pierce infinity-
This vast unknown- 
Ponder about its existence 
Let not a single thing unexamined 
Any...

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Guys, blind acceptance is known as blind belief,                           ...

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If we pray for other countries to prosper, real neighbor ...
As Old Cultures and Histories model, imbibe, declare ...
There would be fewer dark nations seeking refuge in whiter

Would you even consider praying for Nicaragua, El...

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Within sleepy sheep folds
of retributive divine justice
postponed til kingdom comes
and diva queens go 
to hell where we sinfully belong
like all unfaithful Negroes
refusing to shuck and jive
custody of 20/20 eyes
and to disconnect bicameral ears,

Discovering within these...

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You plot and scheme but things 
don't always fall into plan,
I know now what most men might 
learn in a life span,
but all my knowledge of philosophy 
cannot spare,
the rare yet paralyzing storm of 
despair,
my...

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Whisper of Conscience

Because of the canticle of everlasting love
Like a sunlit lyric sung upon a path
Life’s essence sheds freckles of pacing anxiety
That echo through catacombs of consternation
In a whisper of untranslated dots of braille. 

Because...

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** “The unexamined life is not worth living” – Socrates.**

Looking Inward, Asking For Serenity's Grace

Looking inward, a soul that so silently weeps
For the realization of dear dreams born in sleep
And cessation of wickedness in this...

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Armageddon    

These here sacred walls are graffiti on the mind, 
Designed to make us blind.
A lie artfully etched on both sides of a crooked sky.
Shame, and guilt, that is how a religion...

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Making the Adjustments 

If characteristics defines a man

Then I do not choose to be categorized and placed in a box by the norms of society.

It is my choice to level up, and exhaust all possibilities...

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Clairvoyance veiled by the unexamined presence fails
                            ...

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Yesterday’s Wishes 6-25-24
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Yesterday’s Wishes

Yesterday’s wishes never grow stale,
Immortal dream walkers glint in platinum.

Fresh hope with wings, like moonbeams in a mason jar,
Nudges wrinkled wishing stars
To capture a prayer implored on the first star,
Slipping through starlight...

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I Will Be The Better
*
To have left the world
Without making it a better
Place for ourselves and 
Our animal friends, 
What kind of a life was that? 
*
To have left the world
With family and friends 
Remembering...

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So now there falls the longest dark,
The hours of stars and cold
That in their icy silence reign
Above a world full dropped to rest..
The winds carry off another year
As the newborn next comes stealing in.

We turn...

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I wonder if sage Socrates 
opined today
And said listen good people to 
what I have to say
Where would those people who 
are paid just to spin
Fit this sage controversial free 
thinker in

Or if Jesus Christ...

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When dappled shadows flit through darkened backstreets, 
and whispers rendezvous with one another,
the usual bright spirits take a backseat.
They nurture remnants of rebounds which smother. 
When cadence of sweet trilling of dawn chorus		
unwelcome thief: give...

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I sat quietly staring out the porthole window
As we were passing over a village in the low hills
A cumulus cloud casting over its ominous shadow
Far below in the silence of the engine’s shrills,  
I...

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Overgrown With Vines


Three meatless, boney, fingers clawed
at the hard dirt, glistened in the emptiness,
cursed the damnation of the full moons lie.

Death and the shallow grave had come quickly
a sharp metal edge the instrument of both.
The...

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I think I've got to take a little time today,
A little moment to ponder on few issues,
I'd better read between the poetic lines,
In case I need it when my heart is turning cold.

The bloody and...

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Know thyself
Confusing – maybe?
The reality - we are all we’ll ever have
Personal awareness is of utmost importance - indeed

Evolutionary dialectical battle
Vociferous the subconscious mind 
Perpetual synaptic reactions
Unexamined – troubled - unkind

Awareness precedes Transformation
Transformation – Holy...

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My lips not curve, when he walks into a room 
My eyes not heed to see this face all known
Chores will not stop, my hand knows more the broom
And still he starts, cause cleaning not...

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S - Sage,

O - Outstanding

C - Cosmopolitan,

R - Reason's

A - Apotheosis,

T - Transcendental

E - Euphoric  
  
S - Spirit. *







©  Demetrios Trifiatis 
     13 December 2019


* Socrates, Greek...

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