Short Socrates Poems
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I know not where lies Socrates,
Yet I know what he said and did;
But all I know of Cheops’ days
Is that he built a pyramid.
I deny Socrates.
I don’t know that I don’t know.
But I believe it.
I deny Descartes.
I am, not because I think.
But I believe it.
We are socratically convinced
that we are infinitely ignorant;
daily we must dramatically
fight to reduce the chasm ...
"The hottest love has the coldest end" ~ Socrates
Our love's flame, tonight became
just a dying ember.
Will there be something to remember?
There was a man named Freddie
he'd beat is wife ever steady
a self centered drunk
he was a scum and a skunk
the judge made sure his cell was ready
Swindlers and charlatans
strut the world’s stage
Decent folk beat a hasty retreat
‘tis the era’s outrage
Right or pretense
It makes sense
To see and suspense
what Socrates says:
"in number, there are views
as the number of human heads
their words are immense".
What killed Socrates.
a weed or Aristophanes?
What caused an end so dire?
The law or just satire?
The cries of ignorant crowds.
or something in 'The Clouds'?
All I know is that I know something,
though I agree, it ain't all that much.
But those like Socrates who say all that they know is nothing
seem to me to be completely out of touch.
Advisable would be for someone who endeavors wisdom to attain
Socrates' rebukes to seek rather than the applauds of fools to obtain!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
17 May 2021
S-cribe
O-f
C-omposition
R-apturously
A-uthors
T-he
E-xcellent
S-tatement
J-ust
A-pplying
C-elebrator
O-f
B-irthday
Topic: Birthday of Socrates Jacob (October 13)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Socrates' Self Heart Breaks
I've Had Enough!
F@#% You,
And Your
F@#%ing Hemlock,
Mother-F@#%ers!!!!
Your Rules Are STUPID!
I'm Gonna' Live!
(And Pardon My Greek.)
-Gray Squirrel
11-06-2025
Now I know how he got his name....
He can put an electric dryer to shame!
Dryers eats socks,
Socrates does pilfer....
I wonder what happens,
If I send him a bill 'fer
All my missing socks....
Would he sock me one?
Oh, how Much
Oh, how much I seek out the rebuke of a
Socrates
Than the applause of a myriad
Fools!
©Demetrios Trifiatis
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.
Why is yesterday
no better than today
'Tis true in each and every generation
‘cross demographics, populations
From Socrates’ time right up until now
‘t's so hard to get hired help these days’ ~ and how
I do not wish myself to please,
Neither do I want to tease;
Time is something you cant freeze,
We've both left behind poor SOCRATES.
~~Princefreakasso
(Artist and Poet)
Life's a big scam
It was never meant to be forever
Just a relatively short term
Einstein has passed into the ages
No longer his contribution
To the ages as with so many others
Plato, Socrates, Mozart, Shakespeare
So how important do you think you are now
You're not!
The hemlock grove keeps haunting
trembles dare fade away
"Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius.
Please, don't forget to pay the debt"
Those thou teach have greater reach
to poison of the day
these needles vein in vain
diepan, water fogs__
no holding off the pain
no holding out the pain
They coursed their thoughts
Pretending they were dragons
Smoking like they were nothing else
They had just graduated
In the art of smoking a cigarette
Without even hurting it
Nobody could deny the hypocrisy
Nor the ugly face of mediocrity:
Were they students of Socrates
They would know the realities.
I tell you
O Children of the Sun
I call upon thee
with Aristotle’s
and Socrates’ words
asking you
to take your great place
in the great inheritance
of the West.
Looking at the East
embracing the full realization of the West.
I ask you now
for that answer
at the end
and the beginning of time.
An eloquent stutterer he was,
whose anecdotes were luscious and true
he lived in the days of aesthetics,
but had no comeliness in size or stature;
His teachings were unadulterated and void of fallacy
Ipso facto he was condemned to the gallows,
he tasted of the legendary hemlock potion
And died before he lived.
Today I’m thankful for traditions and though it may sound strange…
I’m also thankful for the way traditions can grow and change
It was Socrates…a Greek philosopher who said…
long before there was a me and you….
The secret to change is to focus all your energy
not on fighting the old
but on building the new.
Archimedes and Socrates
Plato and Horatio
Euclid and Ulysses and Odysseus
Crumbling white busts
Galileo and Milton
Copernicus, Newton
Aeschylus, Sophocles
Ancient technology
Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish
Lady Gaga and Rihanna
They're today's culture
~ vulture and piranha
“socrates confused”
it was a banana peeled
left careless and reckless
causing a moment to stumble
then eventually fall
upon the neon dream
of what is and is not,
to the floor of the sky
where beluga whales swam
then lose themselves
under waves of thought
to the shore crashing
where Dali drew
in hour glass sands.....