A Philosopher’s Grief
...We sit together in the shadowed halls beyond time—
Plato, Socrates, Spinoza, Protagoras,
Aristotle, Pythagoras, Kant, Descartes, Aquinas—
our words once rivers,
now dust in the mouths of men.
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Categories:
syllogisms, allegory, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form: Free verse
She is not impressed by your borrowed brilliance
...She is not impressed by your borrowed brilliance,
By the overly polished theories that hang from your lips like cheap jewelry,
No—she feeds on rarer flesh, nourishment for the chosen soul,
She fea...
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Categories:
syllogisms, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Organicgreen Memes
...Enthymeme:
A syllogism or other argument,
logical and ecological and theological,
in which a relational premise
or the rationally robust conclusion
is [0] unexpressed.
All truth is healthy
A...
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Categories:
syllogisms, beautiful, green, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
The Relevancy of Aristotle Within the 21st Century Lesson 1
...“The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”
Said quote attributed to Aristotle,
stands the test of time,
and not only did out last
many another aphorism,
but most any...
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Categories:
syllogisms, 11th grade, celebrity, for
Form: Elegy
Deity For Laity
...DEITY FOR LAITY or THE RELUCTANT ATHEIST
Oh! must we talk of God? Myself I think I’d sooner look
At what I perceive without a preconceived idea, prescription
We could quote the words of others s...
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Categories:
syllogisms, god,
Form: Sonnet
Poison
...You see my eyes in the night,
haunting in a vacuum.
I see only your flesh and blood,
regardless of the hour.
I must fear lest I be evil;
reflect emotions in syllogisms.
I don't fear, bu...
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Categories:
syllogisms, anger, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Black Widow
...She waits,
eight black spindles joined at one end by a pivot, a compass.
Each pinpoint balanced at the intersections
of self-drawn polygons.
Legs jointed like the fingers of a skeleton,
deft, de...
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Categories:
syllogisms, future, insect,
Form: Imagism
Baloney
...Baloney….
Bully others cause by masters strength and poses.
Fall your faces and first to grounds because dirt may good.
Filthy men have nothing pretty only there may be forces and might confer or hir...
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Categories:
syllogisms, dark, evil, may, men,
Form: ABC
Philosopher's Philosophies
...Love is blind,
But it can see beyond what your eyes can do.
Love is everywhere,
But it only dwell in your being.
Practice makes perfect,
But nobody's perfect at all.
It can only...
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Categories:
syllogisms, lifelove,
Form: Free verse