oh, ladybug, beloved insect
gentle, colorful beetles
with sweet red-and-black spots
delightful winged wonders
omens of good things to come
with spiritual messages if you believe
wish fulfillment
protection
renewal and transformation
adaptability
love
and positive things
and if you don't believe
ladybugs will eradicate your garden pests
How Painful
Can Repair
Possibly Be?
If It’s So
Rewarding:
Adaptability?
Adapt To
Repair...
Excruciatingly:
Free.
-Gray Squirrel
04-09-2026
[Poet’s Notes : Geckos are flexible, able to thrive in most situations. They symbolise transformation & resilience due to their ability to detach, then regrow their tails. Losing their tail is a metaphor for shedding old habits, fears, or burdens that no longer serve. As omen, they represent good luck, adaptability, a reminder to shed the past, rebuild, moving forward after setbacks. In many cultures, geckos are signs of positive protection.]
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“With renewal comes guardianship ~ an inner strength to both hold the past whilst not being defined by it.” ~ Poet
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Gecko appeared on white wall
tail shadow flickering fall
amber leaves crack autumn’s cue
shows transmutation is due ~
Regeneration is name
my chosen professed good game
power healings signal luck
old scales peel burning in muck
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Ripsnorting depravity cavity of sporting gravity
Severity of the brevity cheekily courting levity
Hilarity distorting polarity Tests aren’t a charity
Unpopularity resorting to double downed vulgarity
Clarity for sorting parity then humility not a rarity
Some austerity can feed & lead to prosperity
Precarity due to the complete lack of dexterity
Asperity at temerity & totality of Bazball brutality
Banality of celebrity vanity caused the disparity
Mendacity that red ball is just all about audacity
In reality plans need adaptability or fans profanity
Rapacity of elan talismans fatality simply insanity
Seeking Answers from within,
Staring into its reflection,
The projection of my eyes,
Creating what's lying inside,
So that I can enjoy this ride,
As I slide down into you,
Riding along sharing my view,
Excited to see what you do,
With the body you built for me,
Evolving through Adaptability,
Trusting when you couldn't see,
Everything was meant to be,
The good bad and ugly,
All a part of eternity,
Starting from within me,
Questions entered in the query,
Become answers i can see,
Feel and touch in my reality,
Being free to experience,
Dancing with the answers,
Now a truth transfer,
To place here in my heart,
Thankful I can play my part,
Living life like its an art.
Ask again you're getting smart.
Despair; an intrinsic component of human nature, an emotion in which every individual must confront before comprehending the full extent of their fortitude. As dangerous as it may be, there is power in despair.
Despair is an inherent part of the human experience, and it can be a transformative emotion that ultimately reveals our inner strength and resilience.
Despair can be a dark and overwhelming feeling, but it can also be a catalyst for growth and self-reflection. It's through facing and working through despair that we can discover our capacity for resilience, adaptability, and courage.
"Fall seven times, stand up eight." Despair may knock us down; be it unrequited love, loss, misfortune and so on, but it's up to us to rise again, stronger and more resilient than before.
In despair we find the most pessimistic and hardened parts of ourselves. In finding our darker sides we can be, ironically, more whole.
Reminder to speak truth
Truths be told, weather's whether prone;
Thoughts provoking we must be found;
"truths" be spoken;
We must be slow to speak always...unbroken;
Speak Father's truth
Always
Authenticity truths spoken, truths be told;
Mindfulness thoughts provoking;
Self-control slow to speak spoken;
Divine guidance Speak Father's truth;
Absolutes;
Speak honestly and wisely;
Reflect before speaking;
Align words with divine truth;
Weather's whether prone" suggests adaptability;
Speak Father's truth" emphasizes divine authority;
11/2/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2024
Scripture Referencing;
Proverbs 10:32: "Lips of righteousness know truth."
- James 1:19: "Slow to speak, swift to hear."
- Psalm 19:14: "May words be acceptable in Your sight."
Gene editing offers revolutionary possibilities in medicine, agriculture, and beyond.
In healthcare, it could eradicate genetic diseases, enhance immunity against infections, and personalize treatments.
Agricultural benefits include improving crop resilience, yield, and nutritional value, potentially alleviating hunger and malnutrition.
Additionally, gene editing holds promise for environmental conservation by mitigating invasive species or enhancing the adaptability of endangered ones.
Overall, gene editing has the potential to transform human well-being, food security, and ecological sustainability.
Didn’t attend Harvard, Yale nor Stanford
Don’t have a High IQ
Possess determination to pursue
Possess life knowledge through living education
True smart is common sense and understanding
Higher Learning doesn’t teach that
Theory in fact
Intelligence within
Abilities come with every try
Talent to emphasize
No quitter
Always ready to fulfill
Being no Smart Attic
Pure logic
Organizing thoughts in and out
That is what a Smart Planner is about
True smart is knowing you can
True education in knowledge you can master any concept
Adaptability and Responsibility
Smart choice
“If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you’ve created a world without conflict in which everything is perfect. And if there is no conflict, there are no stories worth telling – or reading”
~ Veronica Roth
How boring could Utopia be
if we all did agree,
and if perfection is all we see?
That’s not a place I want to lee.
.
I relish cultures of variety
in and out mainstream society.
The freedom of unpredictability
is a sign of one’s individuality.
There is excitement in running free.
Or just being here, alone with me,
yields a sense of commonality
surrounding all with sodality.
Utopia is not found in impeccability
but rather in life’s fragility.
We make too much of predictability
when there is no absolute sterility.
Utopia is not humankind’s normality
but rather it’s in its adaptability.
Acceptance without impunity
may well-describe society’s community.
The world's been in the dumpster forever
An intolerable state of affairs
Isn't it about time we changed our ways
It's badly in need of repairs
Let's start a pact to end our disputes
Some think it's beyond possibility
Need somebody to step up to the plate
Us humans have great adaptability
Think I just heard a scoff or two
Now that's been a part of the problem
If we all just put aside our differences
We'd be much more able to solve them
Probably sound like a big ole know-it-all
To me, it just makes common sense
Adapt or it's curtains for all human kind
Must do something in any event
From side to side;
the smile of the morning sun,
and the cool of the midnight moon,
amidst the sparky stars.
I grin like a Cheshire cat.
as I seat underneath Divinity’s love for the globe;
the Soft breezes blow from odorous meadows
I get filled up with
nostalgic memories,
Oh! the good old days.
my dark brown eyes,
the dark youthful skin,
my frizzy youthful hair.
Everything retreated from me.
Oh! the good sweet old days,
Am now ancient,
My never ending epistemophilia and
wish to give the young people optimism.
my adaptability be exhume,
and live among the folk.
Change cannot be paused,
it’s an automatic,
it needs not your consent to transpire.
Wreathed in smiles,
about my then and now;
I go to slumber like
a bird singing on the tree.
I’ve tasted of life’s sweet wine.
Just do nothing; it is impossible: having such mindset kills
For no one defines what quality is needed for possibility
Unless we've forgotten luck is lurking somewhere in the world
To bless the fate awaiting an irrefutable fulfilment you own
Just do it; nothing is impossible: an encouragement that fuels
Your eagerness in believing your heart's trials for great success
And the need to less the failure resisting thy adaptability
Be prepared always to sail through every ups and down
With such, life's threats will become a source of strength
As it keeps saying impossible; you keep pushing through grace
And saying bold at mind "nothing is ing crazy impossible"
You owns to make good and evil dead or alive .
If we reduced most mission statements to just one word,
There would be no need to use a sword,
To get a company to keep their word,
As reducing mission statements to just one word,
Makes it easy to spread that word.
Accountability would be a good one,
Accessibility could be another one,
Reliability could be my favourite one,
Adaptability my second one,
My list is a long one,
So I will leave you to find your own one,
Now that you see what can be done,
To reduce a mission statement to the bone.
Crunch
by Michael R. Burch
A cockroach could live nine months on the dried mucous you scrounge from your nose
then fling like seedplants to the slowly greening floor ...
You claim to be the advanced life form, but, mon frere,
sometimes as you snatch encrusted kinks of hair from your Leviathan ass
and muse softly on zits, icebergs snap off the Antarctic.
You’re an evolutionary quandary, in need of a sacral ganglion
to control your enlarged, contradictory hindquarters:
surely the brain should migrate closer to its primary source of information,
in order to ensure the survival of the species.
Cockroaches thrive on eyeboogers and feces;
their exoskeletons expand and gleam like burnished armor in the presence of uranium.
But your cranium
is not nearly so adaptable.
“Crunch” is a poem about evolution and survival of the fittest which questions where human beings really are the planet earth’s most advanced life forms. Keywords/Tags: evolution, global warming, climate change, pollution, insect, insects, cockroach, cockroaches, advance life form, survival of the fittest, adaptability, animal, animals, environment, world, America
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