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
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