Socrates Poems

I'm not a bit like 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 completely out of touch.

Socrates' Sacrifice

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

Socrates, Jesus and Buddha

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

Thank You Too

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

As Socrates Said

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

The Insanity of Man

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

Second Best Truth

. 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

I Hope Freud Is Proud Socrates Said

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

Hemlock Or the Power To Mock

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'?

Socrates

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

Socrates the Greatest Classical Greek Philosopher

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

We Are Ignorant Said Socrates

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

Socrates and His Ouzo

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

Cheops

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.

Meeting Socrates

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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