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The Awkward Phase, Part I

...It’s become so self-destructive, the weakness of our modern times, to the point it takes our children, pollutes unformed, unready minds. Now this was always a real risk, but it seems in the deca......

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Categories: sophists, children, corruption, gender, how
Form: Rhyme

Don'T Tread On Me

...What is a life when you’re constrained, your words bound up within your brain, from fear of punishment without, from tyrants or folks without doubt? So all that matters can’t be said, it makes t......

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Categories: sophists, faith, freedom, philosophy, political,
Form: Rhyme

Sonic Sonnet

...Sonorous, saporous symphonies: strong; soothingly spirited, sublime sweet songs. Satisfied sigh, sees salubrious springs; sharp, sizzling sunburn scream: saltwater stings. Searing sharp satiris......

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Categories: sophists, sound,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Similar Sounds

...Sonorous, saporous symphonies: strong; Soothingly spiritual, sublime sweet songs. Seismically sensitive subsurface screens; Substandard systems severe shakes scarce seen. Searing sharp satiri......

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Categories: sophists, sensual, silence, simple, surreal,
Form: Alliteration

They Took Him

...They Took Him By Sy Roth They took him and squirreled him away. Those Sophists, Deniers of the terror they could construct Where he no longer saw the human side of himself. Half man, Quasi......

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Categories: sophists, angst,
Form: Free verse

The Commoner

...THE COMMONER There are different varieties of me In the azuline light, I swirl and twirl And sometimes become dim. Some favour Bellis Perrenis version of me In the spring Some sophists are......

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Categories: sophists, flower, imagination, inspiration, love,
Form: Rhyme

Microscopic Windfall

...Perhaps I’m facing pogonophobes? Apparently wore the wrong face. Age-hardened wiry wisps forge post-pubescent platemail - protect strangers from my truest fleshy pores, protect me from the x......

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Categories: sophists, business, people, sick, society,
Form: Free verse

Thousand Mile Stare

...By Laura June 17, 2015 The war has left my broken heart But scars stay where they've always been I wish I could forget those nights The lonely, desperate tears within I can't unsee those ho......

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Categories: sophists, baptism, beautiful, butterfly, dream,
Form: Lyric

A Sophist

...A sophist saint in ancient Grecian land, Said whatever he said was a falsity. Was asked to state anything before he died, When once he'd committed an act of crime. He would be hanged, if ......

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Categories: sophists, conflict, culture, freedom, humorous,
Form: Light Verse

Greek Philosophy After Heraclitus - Continued In Verse - With the Pluralists

...THE PLURALISTS : Empedocles & Anaxagoras That single primary substance the ‘arche’ of the Ionian philosophers , Was challenged by Emphedocles (b.495BC) and Anaxagoras(b.500BC) ! Emphedocles sp......

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Categories: sophists, historymen, hate, life, love,
Form: Rhyme