Plato and Protagoras

by

Frank Valentyn

You were so right, Plato
it is indeed a kind, a manner
of inspired madness
removed by definable degrees
from the principle of Universal Good

But perhaps your fundamental premise
took predilective, a too severe account
of just one side of the coin of Formness
that in its weaving through human minds
avoids interpretatively the void of formless

And in Protagoras’ axe, gently cleaving
the undulant and vacillating nature
of the truly free and the determinant
there was preceding counterpoint
that was not politically expedient

Was it just one step, Plato
that you were removed from the platonic?
when you were persuaded to apology
did you remember the justified ontology
of exiled drowning?

Undoubtedly, in opinion of knowledge
there is knowledge of opinion
and before and after that
a strange connectedness, a dynamism
an unstoppable circle of reason

Perhaps you’d agree after all
that the ultimate form beyond all
is the form of the ultimate all
and the resonance of selective chase
a haste of unique dedication

NEXT?
Why don't you look at 21st CENTURY NURSERY RHYMES # 78
by: Paul Curtis
from: Woking, England, UK

To visit all of Frank Valentyn's poems, click HERE

Check out these deals at Amazon.com

...the best independent ISP in the Twin Cities

To write us about this page,
contact willy@dreamagic.com (Willy Chaplin)