William Alfred

Joined February 2025

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A retired college teacher who has turned to poetry in his old age.

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Blind
Really look around. Its enough to make you retch. Scorching stupids stomping their own feet into mash, the worst of the worst transgressing
By William Alfredabout a year ago in Poets
Noses
It baffles those whose minds can clearly see how simpletons can hate and hate so much that they will slice their noses clear away
By William Alfredabout a year ago in Poets
Dupes
Whoever begins by being a dupe ends by becoming a scoundrel. —Voltaire ____________________________________________________
By William Alfredabout a year ago in Poets
Demons
The world is aflame with hatred and grievance, fear of professors and experts, Statesmen, scientists, teachers, writers—
By William Alfredabout a year ago in Poets
Painting
Of a sudden, a freedom-fighter, standing at the wall against a ferocious despot for all lovers of liberty, is painted as a villain,
By William Alfredabout a year ago in Poets
Ignorance
It is hard to rouse most people to action by appeal to their own interest. It is quite easy to rouse them to act with bold lies that they have been wronged.
By William Alfredabout a year ago in Poets
Hebetude
There is no greater error in affairs than forcing, grasping, wielding, and then pressing every unjust advantage, or even just ones,
By William Alfredabout a year ago in Poets
Doppelgänger
The first of philosophers told us that soul is more important than body, that the things we do are not as important as the state of our souls.
By William Alfredabout a year ago in Poets
Cards
It is wise not to play cards with someone who holds only trumps.
By William Alfredabout a year ago in Poets