Short Heraclitus Poems

Coming home' poems -
all missing the point. You can't
come home; you are home....

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Epigram #81:  

WISDOM


Heraclitus said most men dread
Plain wisdom that springs unafraid.

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Leon Enriquez
21 April 2015
Singapore...

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Greek philosopher Heraclitus: 
“We can’t, though this sounds ridiculous, 
dip even our five toes 
into water that flows
through the same stream twice; ‘flux’ won’t let us."...

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The only permanent thing in this world we live in is change

Incessantly, it manages everything that exists to rearrange*







©  Demetrios Trifiatis
       15 May 2021


*"Nothing endures but change."
 ~ Heraclitus, Greek philosopher 544-480 BC...

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Oh, you Happiness,

Do not look at me with contempt

For

I am, Unhappiness, your twin sister,

Who, without my presence, your name

Would be unknown!*








© Demetrios Trifiatis
     07 February 2017

* Things become known to us because of their opposites, Heraclitus,
Greek philosopher,  sixth century BC...

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What awaits us when we die? What we neither expect nor even imagine. (Heraclitus)

Why should we fear what awaits us when we die?
Why worry about what can neither be expected
Nor even imagined?
We should live for today,
Anticipate tomorrow,
And remember yesterday.
We already possess the greatest gifts:
Life,
Hope,
Memory.
In nothing else is one truly rich;
In nothing else can one be truly destitute....

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Heraclitus!
Can we never step in the 
Same water twice?
For other waters are forever 
Flowing onto us!
I try to think of ways to 
Cheat your wisdom.
What if the waters are frozen?
Surely then I can keep what 
I never want to lose?
But a frozen stream like
An icy soul denies
And bars admittance.
Were they only dreams?
Things already past!

Nothing endures but change
You say? Then tell me man
Why ever pain; seems the only
One to stay?...

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