The Exasperated Gents (a response to excerpts from the Laches, by Plato)

[heslopian]

Athenian gents ask Socrates
how best to raise their boys,
so in their hearts will courage burn.

Socrates, in turn, tries to define "courage",
sitting down with two fellows
to break it up like some engine.

Ten hours of coffees and chat pass by
when both the gents, with weary looks,
finally get up to ask:
"my idle friends, could this great "mystery"
be solved before the boys hit puberty?"

[cidermaid]

Hi loved your little excerpt.
So true of great minds down through the ages.
Gave me something to smile over at the end of a tedious day, so thanks.
AJ.

[heslopian]

I'm glad you liked it I thought it might be a bit cheesy