Short Socrates Poems

Ignorance is dark
knowledge opens up our eyes
Socrates was right...

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Waiting in queue:
Platos, Socrates, Bernard Shaws -
Ah! These tax returns...

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To do is to be -Socrates
By Felicia Elizabeth Dawn Jefferson Weaver Jefferson...

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hemlock that killed
philosopher Socrates, is ~
precious medicine


04 December 2021...

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Socrates
Would ask big questions as he pleased.
But when he was told to die,
It was his students who asked him why....

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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....

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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....

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We are socratically convinced
       that we are infinitely ignorant;
       daily we must dramatically
       fight to reduce the chasm ......

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"The hottest love has the coldest end" ~ Socrates

Our love's flame, tonight became
just a dying ember.
Will there be something to remember?...

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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...

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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"....

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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'?...

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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 competely out of touch....

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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...

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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...

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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?...

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Oh, how Much


Oh, how much I seek out the rebuke of a
                                                       Socrates
Than the applause of a myriad 
                                                        Fools! 

©Demetrios Trifiatis...

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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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     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
...

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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)...

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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!...

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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...

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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....

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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....

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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....

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