Best Plato Poems

Dramatic prose for the pompous asses
I throw my Platos at you
If you come any closer
I will Socrates you right in the nose
Demands, demands!!!! The clowns now have demands?
I say, rise up oh poets of the infinite dot universe
Proclaim the revolution a new
Justify our fight with...

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A BRIEF HISTORY WITH PLATO

At the beginning Plato reigned
in a way they never quite explained
or understood; the mutual attraction
obviated thoughts of sexual satisfaction.

For so long being together sharing time
was enough, and in retrospect sublime;
beyond that moment when Nature took the course
it did, bodily coincidence foretold...

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Can we contemplate a love between friends
phycically attracted but spiritually exempt
from the common consummation?

Can we sustain a love that never ensds,
a touch of hands, a kiss, to obviate
the threat from consummation?

Can we contemplate a love complete
within our understanding,
give all to each other as never before,
stand...

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PLATO EPIGRAM TRANSLATIONS

These epitaphs and other epigrams have been ascribed to Plato...

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
But go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
—Michael R. Burch, after Plato

We left the thunderous Aegean
to sleep peacefully here on the plains of...

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No Respite for Plato


I was born into the wondrous light that bore down upon me illuminating the world before my eyes. In my youth I chose to turn away and seek the refuge of the shadows. But always could I feel the burning of the...

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[ Form - Rap ]

( "Love's Survival" is a paucity. The proper dress is ice-skates and blind-folds. - © 1998 - R.W. )


what to do about Plato of late
the Greeks convinced

and about Pluto
lost planet status

he-haw atmospherics since

lost again when earth's bit brawl is done

say fie...

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To adequately consider the problem of one and many,
place yourself in orbit
and distinguish between what you see each successive time around....

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31.01.2008

The theory of Plato


Even old Plato said
There will be us forever
-
Two halves that make an apple,
Two ropes tied in a knot.

Even old Plato said
We’re meant to be together
-
Two stars from the sky – falling,
Souls always bound by love.

Even old Plato may
Be wrong once in a...

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dead men walking
predicting patterns
anticipating outcomes 
self limiting possibilities
languishing in darkness
blind leading the blind
a tragedy of our times

14-December-2022...

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Plato to Aristotle….”you made your bed, now sleep in it”

Aristotle to Plato….”if you lie down with dogs expect to arise with fleas”

Plato to Aristotle….”Ekphrasis makes strange bedfellows”

Aristotle to Plato….”never wake a sleeping blog”

Plato to Aristotle….”no matter how you slice it, it’s still baloney”

Aristotle to Plato…”sleep...

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Aristocles Plato
Tried to prove a poet as a fiasco
He wrote his Republic
To save his people from emotional epidemic...

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What are words other than coffin nails be?
Who does it belong to when it rails me?
An empty vessel at best that bails thee.

Lend me your ear and draw your heart near;
my words might seer, but hark the raw fear.

The poets have been forcibly silenced.
We view...

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through the key-hole surgery of my delicate heart 
you have reached into the inner sanctum of my soul 
in Plato’s cave where I have locked away my demons 
betrayed by worm casts of secretive earthworms 

cold and unyielding
queen conch shell lips suited for bathroom decoration...

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ALL ABOUT NOTHING

Long before modern nihilism
Plato spoke of khora, 
the receptacle of nothingness 
as the existential foundation
of all things shown and known.

Nonsense, the men of Athens said
for we stand firmly on the ground,
to which Socrates replied: 
If no space is in and about the ground
how...

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He had doubt about telling love … to laities.
Doubt does sprout, and he stopped writing, Ladies,
Not lines, nor about wines, yet about his love,
But he thought: ought I not to find why and how?   

He found that Plato, not NATO, nor Tomato, 
Warned...

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