Socrates Poems - Poems about Socrates

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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In the agora or out on the street Wherever public figures I did meet In conversation I loved to engage Only to find my questions would enrage I chipped and chipped at their exterior Their words hollow with no interior My young disciples would heartily laugh At my victims' unease and ev'ry gaffe My deft manner of the question quizzical Drove them...

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Socrates and Jesus met the Buddha one fine day Comparing notes on favorite quotes Of love, life, work and play. Socrates said “Questioning” was the way to truth made clear While Jesus said, “Love everyone, even those we hate and fear.” Buddha on the other hand smiled and kept on walking, Thinking to himself he said, “Need more silence...

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I am in college at this time Learning from Soto’s Socrates mind Bet as a babe he was divine Babbling away peach poetic line Many poetry soupers on a loop teach Who is cooler than Empress of Ink? It’s not a competition it’s a dream team Winged word like bird that fly me eternally There is soup mail from Mystic Rose Rose Sharing...

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Don’t forget what has been said to men stoiC It is a shame to not reach the highest you can gO Some slide into laziness, seal a future bleak and griM Growth in others calls them to greatness as they rise uP Refusing to die having not earned their crowd’s extolL All should strive to see the greatest beauty as...

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The Greeks figured Socrates to be a crock, as he questioned their strongly held beliefs. In return, they poisoned him with hemlock, such dense, ignorant, amoral thieves. Being right, meant all to them, no room for truth, nor minds for learning Just like Joan of Arc, declared evil, and died alive, with her flesh still crackling and...

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. for public domain ( liberally inspired from Socrates' "second best account" from Plato's dialogue Phaedo ) Up the road a little and beside a pond, with a view of dew which she grew so fond, where she shed her Grace after her demise, and a lifetime of forgiven lies, near a wooden cross, a throw from an Oak, a Preacher preached...

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Psychology has crossed the line again. It was firm, in the sand, but she did not care. Philosophy rolled his eyes, pretending it was okay. Incorporating the infraction into a new theory. Not on my watch! Socrates shrieked. He is the overseer And as such, he uses only logic, nothing more. None of that fru fru Freud junk is going to...

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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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S - Sage, O - Outstanding C - Cosmopolitan, R - Reason's A - Apotheosis, T - Transcendental E - Euphoric S - Spirit. * © Demetrios Trifiatis 13 December 2019 * Socrates, Greek moral philosopher, teacher of Plato ,born in Athens in 469 BC , died in Athens in 399 BC. Here three...

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Socrates The Greatest Classical Greek Philosopher A man who stood for truth Who confronted liars and stood alone A shield against injustice and fraudsters We were captives we were blind we couldn’t see A man who taught us how to set our heart free A man who believed in the power of knowledge A sweet fountain of emotion A man full of devotion When...

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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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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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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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On meeting Socrates It was the end of the day at the old folk’s home, he had spent the last two years of his life indoors, in this room he had refused to take his meal in the dining room together with the old people, this was at first refused, but after a few days and fearing for his...

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