Daniel Klawitter- Two Poems

The Virtue of Brevity

 

Socrates:  By Hera, Gorgias, I do like your answers.

They couldn’t be shorter!

Gorgias:  Yes, Socrates, I daresay

I’m doing it quietly nicely.

-From Plato’s Gorgias.

 

 

Oh those long-winded preachers

I grew up listening to in the South!

 

On and on they’d beseech us—

With diarrhea of the mouth.

 

If you can’t say it in 15 minutes,

Then I have but one retort:

 

No sinner has walked out on a sermon

Because it was too short. 

 

This Is Your Brain

On Philosophy

 

…for us learning is no other than recollection.

-Plato, Phaedo.

 

Recollection requires a memory,

So protect your head from trauma!

 

If learning is just remembering,

Then be moderate with marijuana.

 

 

 

Bio:  Among other things, Daniel is the lead singer/lyricist for the indie rock band, Mining for Rain, and a member of the Colorado Poets Center.  His full-length poetry collection, A Poet Playing Doctor, will be released in the fall of 2015 by Alabaster Leaves Publishing.  To learn more, visit:  http://about.me/dklawitter