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Poems Inspired by Greek Philosophers

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Hello and Happy Poetry Friday! Be sure to visit Margaret at Reflections on the Teche for Roundup.

Now that baby boy is back in school, I can start catching up! I'm excited today to share with you the first Poem Swap treasure I received this summer... from Margaret, coincidentally! But first: bushels of hugs and kisses to Tabatha for creating and organizing the Poem Swap across the seasons! What a gift to all of us!

So. Margaret's poem was from a prompt in THE PRACTICE OF POETRY by Robin Behn and Chase Twichell to use a Greek Philosopher's quote as an epigraph. Here is her beautiful poem (which reminds me of my "sky" year!):

Listen to the Voice of the Sky
Dark and light, bad and good, are not different but one and the same. - Heraclitus

Listen
to the voice of the sky
which knows darkness
and light
are the same.

The sky plays
with light and shadow
as a cathedral painted
in stained glass.

Look to the sky
a gauge for weather --
acceptance of rain
as necessary,

indispensable,

as grass to the cow,
as solitude to awareness,
as life is to death.

- Margaret Simon

Lovely, isn't it?! And because this is what often happens during Poem Swap, I was inspired to write my own poem with a Greek philosopher's quote as an epigraph. Some of Margaret's themes bled into my poem as well.

A Murmuration of Acceptance

One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom. - Socrates

The day I learned I knew nothing,
poems swarmed the sky,
swooped across the sun like starlings,
as if one body
instead of a thrum of heartbeats,
a frenzy of syllables, 
a symphony of questions.

Nothingsettled onto my chest
like a parched elephant,
not moving except for that endless lake
of skin twitching against flies,
and a voice said, you are exactly
where you are meant to be,

and in an instant the elephant dissolved –
all my worries retreated
to another kingdom,
my carefully constructed fears
crumbled and fell into a well 
with no bucket, no rope.

I knew nothing, but I wasn't lost.
Not part of the flock anymore,
not even a bird or a feather 
or a mite on a softly tucked wing.
Wisdommerely a small scrawl of letters,
and me the air a nightingale swallows 
when it sings –

not a song, no. Less than a breath,
for those accountants among us:
breath of a breath,
that can only ever become wind
when joined by a million
other jumbled alphabets 
brave enough to shape themselves
into words like nothing and forever,
before they, too, disappear.

- Irene Latham


Anyone else want to write a poem inspired by a Greek philosopher? Find quotes here.






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