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# Still Searching
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- Published: 2024-02-12T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-12T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Diogenes was searching for a man. An honest one, if we're to be precise. If all had gone according to his plan or had he taken pertinent advice, he wouldn't have run into Alexander, but as he was a cynic, he kept goin...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Diogenes was searching for a man.  
An honest one, if we're to be precise.  
If all had gone according to his plan  
or had he taken pertinent advice,  
he wouldn't have run into Alexander,  
but as he was a cynic, he kept going,  
and so it was the genius commander  
demanded, though the cynic was annoying,  
to meet him in the flesh in ancient Greece.  
Diogenes, as ever hard to handle,  
aware the king now ran Peloponnese,  
refused to bow, and went on with his candle.  
It's said that Alexander was impressed.  
Diogenes? He shrugged, as you'd have guessed.