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Plutarch Poems - Poems about Plutarch


Premium Member The Magic of Worthwhile
...Writers 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 G......

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Categories: plutarch, character, confusion, fun, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
No Bird ever soared in a calm
...How 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. Th......

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Categories: plutarch, history, inspirational,
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 fi......

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Categories: plutarch, dedication, destiny, feelings, inspirational,
Form: Ekphrasis
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......

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Categories: plutarch, adventure, allegory, allusion, blessing,
Form: Ode
Poverty
...“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.” ~Plutarch, Greek Philosopher and historian. Poor people living on the fri......

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Categories: plutarch, poverty,
Form: Acrostic



The Paranoia Poetry Club Revisited
...Got 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 ......

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Categories: plutarch, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Imprison Me
... Beware the dark of azure twilight where lightning's arc will lure the sprite, their wings, so stark, like velour midnight, fair creature's that mark the allure of starlight. Share thy ton......

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Categories: plutarch, emotions, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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 sli......

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Categories: plutarch, animal, appreciation, sea,
Form: Free verse
Sing, Lyre: Sappho Translation
...Sappho, 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 appare......

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Categories: plutarch, Lullaby, muse, music, song,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member 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-Bu......

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Categories: plutarch, daughter, freedom, journey, love,
Form: Free verse
Erudition May Not Go With Education
...I'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......

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Categories: plutarch, education, giggle, hilarious, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Perfect Painting: Painting and Poetry In One
...With 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 evo......

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Categories: plutarch, art, feelings, inspiration,
Form: Quintain (English)
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 discover......

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Categories: plutarch, historylost, birthday, history, lost,
Form: Narrative
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 peacef......

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Categories: plutarch, allegory, confusion, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse

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