Best Ethic Poems
When we work with wisdom we will work world wonders!
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15 May 2022
First Place in WORK PERSPECTIVE MONOKU
Sponsor: Beata Agustin
Exceptional effort is generally rewarded in kind
Some efforts are rewarded exactly as designed
Others are considered, then politely declined,
When you made an effort what had you in mind?
Have you tired of following the same daily grind?
Perhaps you might try doing more than assigned,
Consider going beyond the instructions defined,
Then … possibly, then, you’ll be wined and dined
Why do you always think you are being maligned?
Thinking those higher on the ladder must be blind,
When you know you have consistently outshined
You know you are a perfectionist, or so inclined
What a pity that for so long you’ve been confined
When your great desire has been to be enshrined.
written February 8, 2022
I
If your national and ethnic loyalties cannot understand other views of YOU, how are u better than Putin & his supporters?
Study ethnoi, ethnicity, nationalism ... And European wars (numerous) even under the Church - plus the CRUSADES, and we are just as right & WRONG as Hitler, Saddam Hussein & Vlad Putin. Yeah! Did Vietnam War reveal ignorance about nationalism, communism, or anti- imperialism? More?
II
America got one thing right: you may have various ethnicities, but there is one Nation. But USA had to fight empires (French, British, Native American) to create this enlightened nationalism under European experience. Sad, the Native Americans had little european-style experience of State violence (militarisation)
III
Indian, Bangladeshi, and Pakistani nationalism shows ANCIENT PEOPLE - ONE CULTURE can crash on the rocks of rather new, modern language and religion. First we divide on religion, then the same faith-peopke divided again. Pakistan and Bangladesh broke up Pakistan (in the 1970s) & went to war on one base called linguistic nationalism (think Belgium!)
IV
Knee-jerk reactions to fellow poets is not a healthy poetry site. Do we promote Jingoism? Another word for ethnocentrism? That's why BLACK LIVES MATTER surfaces with opposing hate back & forth, not much communication
Summary: Nationalism gives off much heat and hate, not much light.
Alarmed four a.m.
Ceased by the day I am
A bird’s work ethic
Sponsor: Marvin Celestial
Contest Name: Senryu on Your Own Existence
Donkeys have strong backs,
they have to carry heavy packs.
On mountain trails they trudge
slow and steady without grudge.
All donkeys live by this strict ethic:
A lazy ass is pathetic.