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Seneca Poems - Poems about Seneca

Premium Member The Enemy Within
...The Enemy Within "All cruelty springs from weakness." - Seneca Oh Yes. There is an Enemy Within. It lives within, feeds upon, you. Senseless, yelloweyed It informs all that you do. ......

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Categories: seneca, angst, scary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member NEW BEGINNINGS
... Today’s blessing is about change comes from the philosopher Seneca and long ago it was penned…. Every new beginning comes from… some other new beginning’s end.......

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Categories: seneca, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme



Why I Left the Religious Right
...These heretical poems on the subjects of God, religion and Christianity explain why I “left” the Religious Right. If one screams below, what the hell is "Above"? —Michael R. Burch Religion is......

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Categories: seneca, christian, faith, god, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Various Heresies 11
...Various Heresies 11 The beauty of the flower fades, its petals wither to charades... —Michael R. Burch the U-turn poem by michael r. burch Life so defaulty, Life so unfair, why ......

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Categories: seneca, allah, america, atheist, bible,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Luck Happens
...The ancient Roman philosopher, Seneca the Younger, Is recorded to have said, “Luck is what happens when Preparation meets opportunity.” So how does one prepare for opportunity? In my exper......

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Categories: seneca, allegory, appreciation,
Form: Verse



All I Can Be
...“A man is as miserable as he thinks he is” -Seneca I want to do bigger and better things in my life I want to fulfill all my potentialities I want my actions to be the example I just want to be......

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Categories: seneca, appreciation, beautiful, peace, self,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Clothes Make the Man
...Timendi causa est nescire (Ignorance is the cause of fear). – Seneca About two thousand years ago, when Quintilianus said it (at least, that’s who gets the credit), his paradigm was apropos:......

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Categories: seneca, history, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Two Poems About the Iroquois
...Ruler of the Cataracts-Maiden of the Mist The thundering waters of the Niagara. Voice of the mighty spirits of the water. The natives believed and yearly sacrificed a white canoe with fr......

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Categories: seneca, native american,
Form: Free verse
Covid 19
...Come my friends and beat the drum For a newer better world to come So raise your glass to old friends known And those who have now passed and gone For bad times will have an end And we know wh......

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Categories: seneca, depression,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Ode To Hope and Despair
...Reminiscent of Dante’s Inferno, In gloom cries today’s time: O there’s no scope For whoso lives, abandon all the hope. Maybe he’d reasons enough to think so. Yet, if body’s in need of oxygen, ......

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Categories: seneca, depression, hope,
Form: Ode
Premium Member I Fly Away Pray For Me- -
...Critical citizen It's more than my opinion Did you pray Do you pray Or do you just walk away Delusional Denison It has been mentioned How cruel and distant you are You are hidde......

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Categories: seneca, absence, abuse, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forgotten Feminist
...Lucretia Mott The meeker sex, she was not! At the convention in Seneca Falls Showed men aren't the only ones with balls! 1/26/19 For Educate Me with Humor contest Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich......

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Categories: seneca, appreciation, women,
Form: Clerihew
Seneca Gun and Sonic Boom
...Seneca Gun and A Sonic Boom A Seneca gun is usually only one After it has been over and done; When you feel, Wonder if real; Two or more loom, were sonic boom. Jim Horn......

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Categories: seneca, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
War Paint Mixture
... Haudenosaunee ... translation: They made the house But who painted it the colors we now see --- Red, white and blue Let's go back in time shall we, and observe who cut down the fi......

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Categories: seneca, allegory, history, truth, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse
He Refutes the Tenets of Western Philosophy By Alluding To Rachel's Beauty
...Plato says that Heaven is perfect things, that nothing pure or good exists on earth. We leave the Ideal World when, at our birth, like ants who've briefly flown, we shed our wings. All infa......

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Categories: seneca, romantic, , western,
Form: Sonnet

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