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Ironies Within Ironies

...The morning sun filters through dust-laden windows of the district education office like an unwelcome truth trying to penetrate wilful ignorance. Shelves buckle under the weight of untouched research...

The blind belief

...Guys, blind acceptance is known as blind belief,                                        That can lead to negative consequences in life,                        Unquestioning acceptance always ends in ...

Yesterday's Wishes

...Yesterday’s Wishes 6-25-24
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Yesterday’s Wishes

Yesterday’s wishes never grow stale,
Immortal dream walkers glint in platinum.

Fresh hope with ...

Safe and Sound

...chrysalis tears
   meconium oozes
soft wings cling

butterfly’s
  pupal fluid
red like blood

caterpillar and chrysalis
   combine to change
ugly duckling to swan

first flight
   like a...

The Unexamined Life

...An ancient Greek named Socrates
Once said, "The unexamined life
Is not a life worth living."
He might also have gone on to say
That the unexamined heart
Is not a heart worth giving.
Old Soc was...

I Will Be The Better

...I Will Be The Better
*
To have left the world
Without making it a better
Place for ourselves and 
Our animal friends, 
What kind of a life was that? 
*
To have left the world
With family and...

I Dance With Shadows - Yclept Sonnet

...When dappled shadows flit through darkened backstreets, 
and whispers rendezvous with one another,
the usual bright spirits take a backseat.
They nurture remnants of rebounds which smother. 
When...

Satchel of Ordinaries

...I sat quietly staring out the porthole window
As we were passing over a village in the low hills
A cumulus cloud casting over its ominous shadow
Far below in the silence of the engine’...

Looking Inward, Asking For Serenity's Grace

...** “The unexamined life is not worth living” – Socrates.**

Looking Inward, Asking For Serenity's Grace

Looking inward, a soul that so silently weeps
For the realization of dear dreams born in ...

Whisper of Conscience

...Whisper of Conscience

Because of the canticle of everlasting love
Like a sunlit lyric sung upon a path
Life’s essence sheds freckles of pacing anxiety
That echo through catacombs of consternati...

Void

...If it is that there is luck,
fortune, flower and boom,
tell how,
for then would be peace of mind,
if not the sense is just,
an adventure of vile,
the same thing last year seeken love,
ere case...

Let Poetry Show Me

...I think I've got to take a little time today,
A little moment to ponder on few issues,
I'd better read between the poetic lines,
In case I need it when my heart is turning cold.

The bloody and ...

Zealots and Evangelists

...Within sleepy sheep folds
of retributive divine justice
postponed til kingdom comes
and diva queens go 
to hell where we sinfully belong
like all unfaithful *******
refusing to shuck and jive
...

Socrates

...S - Sage,

O - Outstanding

C - Cosmopolitan,

R - Reason's

A - Apotheosis,

T - Transcendental

E - Euphoric  
  
S - Spirit. *







©  Demetrios Trifiatis 
     13 Decembe...

Knight In Shining Armor

...You wanted
a knight in shining armor
that I could never be
but you were too shortsighted
to realize that I knew the path
to your liberation

and you turned a blind eye
when I tried
to point ...

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