Short Heraclitus Poems
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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
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."
...agreeing with the Greek philosopher Heraclitus...
When we die
There awaits for us
What we neither expect
Nor can even imagine
Life is a secret
Death is no mystery
Life's urge leads to death
The enemy of life
Is not death
But indifference
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
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
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.
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?