Development should be inclusive:
From far flung to the urban
From countryside to cityside
From the least to the greatest
From local to international arena
It's like a road, a railway
A blueprint, an organizational chart
A system or a scheme that everyone passed
Together hand in hand will improve, no one is left behind
A leader has short and long term solution
Crafting ideas and laws that benefit people up
Up in livelihood development consumption
Up in financial status development
Up in educational system development
Up in science and technology development
Up in research and development initiative
Up in marine and agricultural sustenance
Up in natural disaster mitigation and prevention
Up in government infrastructures and good governance
Up in digitalization process and innovation
Up in job placement and poverty reduction
Up in communication and in frequency
Excellent leaders think One Hundred Years ahead of his time.
I asked you to love
I assumed you wanted only war
I told you to use goodwill
use sweets and desserts and festivities
shower them with kindness
they will share what they stole
I was naive
I beg of you
forgive me
please forgive me
I have been a fool
love does not kill all enemies
those where my childish thoughts
They burn your villages
rape your woman
torture your brothers
arrest aid workers
snipers shooting for fun
kill your children
sexually abuse
tell lies on top of lies
play the victim
while committing genocide
Who knew
Jimmy Carters wisdom ahead of his time
three hundred and ten billion dollars
can purchase many many lies
He talks and acts accordingly
On his beliefs and visions
He spans through successes
Failures and break-ups
He embarks on countless trips
To the realm of ideas
And crystallizes them
To profit the system
He tends.
He has direct-dial button
To the souls and aspirations
Of his followers
He is always running
Since he knows
Time is ticking and fleeting...
He constantly cites
The latest need for the system
And when running floods of ideas
Begin to level off
He is there to put the best spin
On the buttons.
The running floods of ideas
Never tire rather fires him
Into churning out projects
With crystal streams of resounding successes.
Though feuds and controversies may rise
He remains undaunted in
Actualising his vision and ideas.
A true visionary is centuries ahead of his time...
And indeed a “COLOSSUS”
John Constable famed for his Haywain
later loved painting the wind&rain*
in many ways ahead of his time
&with which conniseurs of art still chime
*https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/constable-cloud-study-n06065
A theatre legend - Mr Stephen Sondheim
an icon of Broadway, ahead of his time
smart lyrics, lush music, bold rhythms and rhyme
the curtain has fallen on a writer sublime.
// Stephen Sondheim wrote lyrics and/or music to West Side Story, Gypsy, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Company, Follies, and many more musicals //
Written 1/13/2022
When lifting hair was not a crime
Tonto was ahead of his time
He saw a bald Ranger
Whose mask made him stranger
A real pandemic paradigm!
Ronald Reagan in his prime
Was a foodie, way ahead of his time
Though others thought it 'kvetch-able'
He daringly labeled ketchup, on meat, a vegetable!
January 23, 2019
Entry in "Educate Me with Humor - Leader" Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich
My first love
Was born
One hundred and one years before me
He never made it to thirty
He was ahead of his time and my time too
What's a poor girl to do?
I resurrect him in my own poetry
In how his words have shaped me
Back when I was a romantic tween
I used to dream of a time machine
So I could go back and embrace him
But knowing me in a heartbeat
I would swift him away to the present day
Where he could see his poetry thriving
Where modern medicine could cure his body
And I his broken heart
My muse my first love
Stephen Crane
In poetry we shall never part
October 15th 2018
For Caren Krutsinger's
Who Would You Bring Back In A Heartbeat Poetry Contest
My dad was really ahead of his time
Thought of as strange, a real scary kind
When people are different
They cause bewilderment
To be feared if they can't be defined
Space travel is already taking place
in minds all around the world
looking on like alien creatures
but way ahead of the rest of us
talking to themselves, wondering where we are
the weather's fine, c'mon up
we're friendly, our welcome mat is out
never mind the vacant look in our eyes
a side effect of the journey
we had hair when we started out
but baldness is an unwelcome byproduct
especially for the ladies!
well now that I've told you the side effects
you may want to rethink your decision
get back to me when you've decided
and your name will go on the list
now I don't really have the authority
but trust me the reservation
won't cost you the moon... just
your first born and a harem of beauties
not much considering this life-changing trip!
Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, it's off to Mars we go
Walt was away ahead of his time!!!
Space travel is already taking place
in minds all around the world
looked on as kookaburras
but way ahead of the rest of us
talk to themselves, wonder where we are
the weather's fine, c'mon up
we're friendly, our welcome mat is out
never mind the vacant look in our eyes
a side effect of the journey
our hair started out... yes
but baldness is an unwelcome byproduct
especially for the ladies!
well now that I've told you about the side effects
you may want to rethink your decision
get back to me when you've decided “yes”
you name will go on the list
now I don't really have the authority
but trust me the reservation
won't cost you the moon
just your first born and a harem of beauties
not much considering this life-changing trip!
Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, it's off to Mars we go
Walt was away ahead of his time!!!
While eating barbecued chicken last night
Realized it was once a living creature
All of a sudden I felt quite strange about eating it
Now I'm not a vegetarian preacher
What made me think about it after all my years
And the amount of chicken I've downed
Not sure but I really didn't like the feeling
Must have eaten hundreds of pounds
My dad was a pseudo vegetarian of sorts
Very rarely eating any kind of meat
So it seems after all these many years later
His motivation was not quite so unique
Back then he was considered a wee bit strange
With some of the ideas he chimed
Now realize after more than sixty years later
He was just a bit ahead of his time
© Jack Ellison 2013
Young Shakespeare didst say to his tutor,
"Methinks I wouldst be much astuter,
And per chance, I wouldst say,
Mightest write a screen play,
If some fool wouldst invent the computer."
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