Short Plato Poems

socratese,plato
philosopher's of ancients
pre-religious ruse...

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contemplate beauty
strength a human high soul wings
as Plato saying...

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Plato said that the "poets" should be banished from the city.
When I read my stuff, I tend to think he may be right....

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Aristocles Plato
Tried to prove a poet as a fiasco
He wrote his Republic
To save his people from emotional epidemic...

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Modern thought…
a footnote to Plato

Enshrined in our memory
—recalled and retold

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2020)...

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If all Philosophy
  is a footnote to Plato

Then all Rock & Roll
  —is but a tribute to the Blues

(Chicago Illinois: August, 1994)...

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To adequately consider the problem of one and many,
place yourself in orbit
and distinguish between what you see each successive time around....

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A relic or the missing link?
You're like “Plato” they say—Do they think
I'm that colossal 
Or a sentient fossil—
A “Play Dough” primordial stink?...

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Plato thought humanity began as androgynous
can you think of anything worse
Male&female are different yet equivalent
God-breathed together in onement...

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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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All I know is that I know something,
though I agree, it ain't all that much.
But those who say, "All that I know
is that I know nothing,"
seem to me to be competely out of touch....

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Plato thought humanity started ad androgynous
can you think of anything worsethink
Male&female clearly different,but equivalent
the Holy Spirit of God breathes ogether in 'onement'...

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dead men walking
predicting patterns
anticipating outcomes 
self limiting possibilities
languishing in darkness
blind leading the blind
a tragedy of our times

14-December-2022...

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I married a shark yesterday; 
we went to Atlantis to stay -
she showed me the sights
(between lots of bites)
as Plato was running away...


written 16th September for Brian's contest...

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Today I’m grateful for music and for Plato
to his words I often cling :

Music, he said, gives soul to the universe
Wings to the mind
Flight to the imagination
And life to everything…...

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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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deep within we know its true,
under the water bloody blue,
the Atlantic choked with mud,
down she went with an awful thud,
what Plato said was true...
Atlantis is true blue...

Don Johnson...

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Causality before truth
truth before causation
Universal in transference
inextricably defined

An atom of veracity
a little bit pregnant
Plato through Lewis
—reality entwined

(Rosemont College: October, 2022)...

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The nature of being,
  its whole and its parts

The nature of being,
  its fits and its starts

The nature of being
  the old and the new

The nature of being
  —to me and to you

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)...

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Hot hot from the pot
The Earl of Grey
To start my day.
 
We sit and chatter
About this and that
Socrates and Plato
And things like that.
 
From a distant past
We flow through time,
Unfolding a future
Of precious dreams of mine....

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Atlantis is out there somewhere, it's common logic  
Falling out of favor with the deities, it submerged in the Atlantic
To be discovered one day
Possibly it's not far away
My real name is Charles, Greek for “Plato”, common knowlege...

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Once Plato and Lao-Tzu had their own blog

Since their philosophies thought mighty strong

Expected people much to read

With wisdom themselves to feed

But readers chose instead opinion's fog!




© Demetrios Trifiatis
    03 FEBRUARY 2015...

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Plato said in Phaedrus that the first 
prophecies were the words of oaks. 
Those that lived at that time found 
it rewarding enough
to listen to oaks 
or stones, so long
as they would
tell the 
truth!



Plato was referring to shamen in general, I imagine....

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‘ Intelligence-Impediment ’

There Was A-Lisping Professor, Named Panamo’
Who gave his Students, an Assignment on Plato’
… But he was quite perplexed in Mind
… When They, came with clay-figures of some Kind
Not Realizing, They All Thought, He’d Said, ‘Play Doh’ ......

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