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Symposium in an Empty Room

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A symposium is a banquet with much wine
Yet we feast not on food but on the virtues
The virtue of beauty and of art
The virtue of intelligence and of love

And there is sobriety,
But is it our choice or is it forced upon us
by situation and mere geography?
would we give it away at first chance?

The events entertainment is replaced
We have not a ponder of philosophers
Not a category of Aristotelians
But a choir, a congregation of song writers

We move from tenure to clamber
We are a chorus, a host
We are a bevy, a faculty
Never a cast or a company

I fear the gathering of cynics
The bark that may never gather
You fear the inevitability of endings
Both we must forget to savour the banquet

In emptiness we add to our anthology
Like a single bird joining a volery
Into a kaleidoscope
As you did from the army of caterpillars

After two thousand years Plato has been misunderstood
though I have heard him not in his writings and dialogues
but in an empty room where it is proven
and it will not be understood for another two thousand years
This began as a reflection on symposium
i got a little diverted into a catch

hope you like it.

dont take plato on face value. wiki will not give you the correct answers

i want to say more but i dont want to...
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