by phillipw | Apr 15, 2020 | AR, PL, PO
Widescreen, 3D, Surround Sound Buttered Popcorn and Icy Coca-Cola® “It follows from the fact that poets do not have knowledge of that about which they speak, but aim to seem as though they do, and some listeners do not realize that poets lack knowledge.” ~...
by phillipw | Apr 15, 2020 | PH, PL, PO
The Truth about Ancient History, Plato, and Poetry “Socrates says in the Republic that he and Plato’s brothers might have to inform poetry about the ancient quarrel between it and philosophy. Glenn Most (“What Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry?”) argues...
by phillipw | Feb 4, 2020 | PH, PL
Plato’s Path to Enlightenment Serene Ideas are the Truth beyond The things our senses show to us. What we see And smell and taste and touch and hear are fond Impressions but are not the Truth. To free Ourselves from mere impressions, we must break Away, dismissing...
by phillipw | Dec 30, 2019 | PL
It Is Hard; and Conract Killers–a Sonnet Biquence It’s hard to say if AIDS or gayness should Be made to go away. If we kill AIDS, The innocent will be protected: good Women and kids could be saved by crusades To wipe it out. Like Hitler we could try To...
by phillipw | Sep 24, 2019 | PH, PL, PO
Corydon and Pastorell: The Poets Paint their Pictures of Unsmelly Shepherds Daydreaming on Perfect Hillsides of Unsmelly Shepherdesses and Tending Unsmelly Sheep Your lies are what we do not want, he said To poets. Plato said imitation Of real things ain’t enough...
by phillipw | Jan 29, 2019 | PL
Actuality vs. Philosophy without Armpits How troubling that some strangers from our past Are still alive. They keep on grasping throats And minds like zombies. Souls like them have gassed Us in a concentration camp. Their quotes Pollute, more toxic than sly stench...
