Short Aristotle Poems

Outside the mind
they’re no universals
Conflation and trend
— humanity’s bane

(Dreamsleep: October, 2024) 
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Aristotle, doth he opine,
That parrots grow saucy with wine.
I can't help but think
He drove it to drink, 
The source of its moral decline....

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Jail realism in upper prison
Quarantine idealism  
Organize posthumous case
Against Aristotle and Plato
Then impose your ideology
Without any ceremony...

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Wildlife 19

A turkey was shaking his wattle,
Whilst reading about  Aristotle,
He'd forgotten, of course,
About cranberry sauce,
'Cos then he would just lose his bottle!...

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Raphael well known for his frescos
philosophy therein he did sow
Plato&Aristotle ideas therein lie
in powerful perspectives* to the eye

*https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_School_of_Athens...

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Aristotle Had No Play-Dough

Aristotle
Never liked to dawdle.
He studied under Plato
But by no means played with play-dough.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 22, 2010

Poetic form: Clerihew...

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Pitter patter on with perfect ambiguity 
Knowing only the knolls of the knave
Brave, brave sir, mam, beware
Aristotle to Aristocracy, I dare
Peasants pair and say thou prayers
The dusk-walker approaches
You are now, the forgotten little roaches...

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Brian, poet inspirational
With the words and knowledge of Aristotle
And the endurance of Job, above all
In the bonnie country, UK's drawl
With the grace of Lauren Bacall

For Brian's contest eap, thanks for all the inspirational contests!!...

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November 17th, 2014

The day that you will come to hold my hands
When you will touch my under-skin
No fears, no tears, no doubts

I will be like that ancient philosopher
I will accept the wisdom of his words:
The whole is greater than the sum of it's parts ----
---- Then I will know who you are.
My Aristotle...

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Aristotle's  Poetics

Epic poets quite divine in seriousness of truth's glow,
In the world’s poetic distinctions compared to history,
In “Poetics”, Aristotelian logic did clearly show,
Poetry more divinely scientific than factual glory,
Poet truths outshine history’s particular knack for gory! 

For Brian Strand Contest...

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"In all things of nature there is somethings of the marvelous."  Aristotle


Marvelous Herbs

Herbs -
Nature’s
Marvelous
Gift of flavor -
Brightens the blandness
Of the ordinary -
Savory gracing tasteless -
Zest to nondescript dreariness -
Herbal wonders – healing remedies –
Seasoning’s magic to flavorless salt.

5-21-20...

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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous 
~Aristotle 

Snapdragons in bloom,
and I celebrate
ending yuletide gloom.

I don't deliberate
reasons for happiness,
I simply decelerate

from winter's crappiness~
tuning nature's loom;
enjoying flowers' flashiness....

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"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."  Aristotle


Sweet
Singing
Chirping bird,
Chant notes with grace,
Whistle blissful tunes,
Whisper those short high cheeps,
Twitter those thin tender tweets,
Twist my moments of silent tears
Cover other notes so duff and dull
Coz someday, boys and girls might sing your voice....

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"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” 
- Aristotle

I 
find peace
in each leaf
of golden hue,
but lilies in spring 
in their delicate hues,
calm my spirit and green fields!
Even snow softens dismal views
as crocus blooms soothe desolate winds.
Oh, to breathe in nature's tranquility!


5/20/20
For Dear Heart’s Etheree Contest...

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Bags Of Rice
 In my Courtyard
 The One I Struggled Lost to the capriciousness
 The nest of the fuddle Nightingale-
 A Suspicious Saying of the sage.

 So sonorous is this Whistle
 That passes by
 IF not covetousness
 It will be inclined.

 Memory of the past
 Archimedes, Aristotle and many
 Memory drained superlative subservient.

 A Holy race
 So secured everywhere....

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pulpy passion puked
perforating punctured view
dark dances dripped
hoisted crippled hankerings
sassy seals spent
salient sieves etched

wanky wits wept
damping callous crest
beauty politics belched

dark diminuendo drooled
nocturnal nauseated clue
saucy syllables stool

felon fate's fostered
vying voluptuous triggers.
'20:03:20:13:22

Note: Dedicated to Aristotle....

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Aristotle said:

History is tragedy for poets!

It is a tragedy for those who really feel 

History is comedy for thinkers.

That's what he said

Two thousand three hundred years ago.

We do the same stupid mistakes

Ancient people had made too.

We are modern!

Civilized men!

Fools think so

I understand opposite view though.

Please, add to

Ancient knew things

That we do not know.
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"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."  Aristotle


Dusk
Is a 
Suddeness
Night sounds come forth
As fireflies alight
Whippoorwills seek a mate
And crickets warm up their legs
One star shines on the horizon
Then darkness falls -the sky is alive
With the billion stars of the Milky Way


5-13-20
Contest: Etheree
Sponsor: Dear Heart...

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“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” Aristotle


Mauve
Skyline
Wears a smile
Blowing purple
Kisses on golden
Arc of blush horizon
Where ruby dawn meets ocean
As sun’s orange glow scintillates
Flight of gallant eagle descending
Upon blooming vibrant prairies of earth

May 21, 2020
Placed 1st: Brian's Choice T Contest
Placed 3rd: Etheree Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Dear Heart...

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I do ponder on Aristotle,
In these groves of golden wattles,
Was Aristotle on the bottle?
"What is beautiful?" he asked,
He set us such a puzzling task,
How to define beautiful?
Maybe, things inspirational,
Or, indeed, something admirable,
A pretty verse, so lyrical,
Or scenery beautiful,
Or a woman, lovable,
Maybe it is a life of harmony,
Are these beautiful, prithee?
Excellent question, Sir Aristotle,
Maybe I should hit the bottle!...

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When Women Like a Sickle
Women are not from a rib or bones 
Nor curved or crooked 
You need a metaphor to understand truth 
Said a sage his name is Aristotle
Don’t straight a stick 
Or make a spoon flat 
They will be broken and become useless 
If a woman appears like an angle 
Or looks like a moon, sickle 
Find them a corner or a swath of grass 
You will get her the best 
Or see the best of her
In cutting and collecting while brightly she will shine....

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"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." - Aristotle


Blue
spring sky,
clouds sail on
tranquil convoy,
on its silk shadow
dew sparkled meadow sprays
lured luster on rose petals,
fine fragrance floats on breeze bracing 
chromatic canvas of my garden,
where butterfly weaves marvel for my heart.

May 21, 2020
Syllable count checked on howmanysyllables.com
Theme chosen : Nature
Contest : Etheree
Sponsor : Dear Heart...

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There must be an algorithm for the Fate
in the A.I. of existence
and I am aware that 
you want to encrypt it.
I wish I could have all the answers
you desperately seek. 
But I don't.
Yet still, I can be your skeleton key 
in this closed space
to open the doors 
toward the unbeknown.
Because for learning by doing - 
as Aristotle said at once -, 
we could read ourselves into
the rules of staying
beneath the wrinkles of Time.

We can be constant variables....

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"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."  Aristotle


I
relax
~ listening ~
in tranquil state
~ to white crested waves ~
tumbling, rumbling, throbbing
towards shore’s protruding rocks.
~ ~ With pulsating rhythmic caress ~ ~
** they erode my few lingering doubts. **  
~ ~  The ocean song gently lulls me to sleep. ~ ~

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Etheree Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Dear Heart
Placed 2nd
© 21st May 2020...

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