Best Reputation Poems
We're angry! What sports fan can blame us?
There hasn't been one loss for Jameis
But off-the-field ruckus
Makes sportscasters muck us
Once famous, now Jameis just shames us
*Written about former FSU quarterback Jameis Winston's run ins with the law.
Character is by far
An important part of who we are.
More important than
Your reputation can
Ever be.
But you see,
Some others would say I'm wrong,
And say that my song
Is a heap of lies,
But I'll always ignore their cries,
And stand by my words
As I soar with the birds.
So work not on your
Reputation but your character,
Reputation is others' thoughts of you,
But you should always be true
To the character that defines
The deepest confines
Of your being,
Giving your life meaning.
Wow, a 2nd camping trip,
Now please don’t flip,
How on earth did I agree,
After the snake and me,
My husband asked so nicely,
And explained precisely
Where we would go,
Not to the bush,
Where a snake lay in ambush!
So hitched up our boat,
To take to Loskop dam
It was the Easter weekend,
Campers began to descend,
We arrived it was almost night,
Hubby sent up our 5 star camp site,
Started our braai late,
Which was to be my embarrassing fate!
We ate heartily and enjoyed
A cariff of wine,
During our campsite dine.
Time for a shower,
Take note of our campsite number
Hubby said, for they all look alike
At night,
And please take this empty
Bottle and fill it with water.
Showered, filled the bottle,
Nervous, had to find the ablutions
in the dark,
Carrying a full bottle that looked like wine,
I got strange looks, wanted to scream
It isn’t mine,
And in any case,
This bottle has no wine!
Each camp site looked the same,
To find my husband was my only aim!
It was an embarrassing situation,
All I felt was a feeling of desolation!
Thought each Range Rover was ours,
I might as well have been on Planet Mars,
It felt as if I had been away hours!
Had not even taken my phone
Had to stop at a camp side and asked
If I could please loan
Their cell to make a call,
That is when I tripped and had a fall,
I called my husband in tears,
He realized immediately what had happened,
Which was one of his fears,
Came and helped me up,
As he was only two camp sites away,
It was my pride that was hurt,
Especially when a passing camper began to flirt,
This was going to be my last camping trip ever,
I exclaimed to hubby, a little pert!
Okay, I'm back to this innocent old dude
My reputation was in danger of being poopooed
I'm an okay Jack
Back on track
But can't promise I won't be once again crude
© Jack Ellison 2015
A sarcastic frown;
Labeled grumpy old feline;
Still beauty is found.
Camaro
Sleek, fast
Racing, flirting, streaking
Sexy, fine, cumbersome, chunky,
Plodding, plugging, inching,
Serviceable, dependable
Minivan
What is a reputation?
What meaning does this word hold?
Seems a fickle, intangible thing.
Changes, as I fashion my mould.
Shifting sand serving foundation.
Island mansion housing past sin.
Life sentence of judgment.
A battle designed not to win.
Built on other people's judgement.
Erroneous and fallible, they may be.
Nobody can truly be happy,
without accepting self, truthfully.
Don't let others dictate who you are.
Reputation is an improvable theory.
Let principles be your guidlines.
They can answer the character query.
Reject the lie pushed upon you.
Another person's life-prison view.
Everything in life is dynamic.
Relative, and never the same for two.
They never have the whole story.
I could care less what others think.
Circumstances change faster
than a hummingbird can blink.
So spew forth my reputation.
It's something I don't believe in.
You have no idea where I'm going,
much less, where I begin.
Where I have been,
or with what I have to contend.
So, for your inkling of mentation.
Your summary of my living work.
I bring you my simple refutation.
You speak through your own murk.
-Angel Fatale-
The victims' blood is violently splattered,
As his reputation is totally shattered.
Sycophants to the hills have all scattered,
What happened in the past really mattered.
What is acquired gradually
Can be Lost so easily
It can be carefully cultivated
Becoming swaddled with flam
Precision engineered
Where everything goes to plan
Sugar covered and baseless underneath
Your retinue expands
The web of knowledgeable deceit you weave
Makes life sweet and you see no defeat
The wind of change
Can blow in as a storm
Its wholesome destruction
A mesmerising theatre
Where plans become aborted
As the mob comes a calling
A Rising star is dislodged
By those who can only love temporarily
Hypocrisy slays so easily
No one remembers the good old days
When they welcomed you lovingly
No one remembers how they turned a blind eye
When you acted so selfishly
No one remembers
Their complicity
Faith in you is now a faded memory
As condemnation explodes
Your self-created bubble
Where public disgrace is now your lasting legacy
Shame on you
I do so enjoy it when my reputation precedes me.
The humbling jest of it all seems to feed me.
I need not worry about delivering much,
My history gives little evidence of such.
If there’s a chance that I’ll be late…
Then figure that I will.
If I’m not, then enjoy the surprise
And call it a frill..
If I forget what I am to remember,
Be not angry,
But to my reputation surrender.
And if I don’t meet your higher expectation..
Smile: It’s all there in my sullied reputation.
Reputation Mind Tower
Alumni alumnus refuses to let the truth to surface on a mirrored pond of
questioning students making efforts of understand just why they cannot advance
it is the tower. There is reputation of the men to be considered they send the best
minds of all the millions to be rulers. There is the tower. Just consider the men
the many evil men in power shooting weapons of destruction just to walk up the
staircases of the tower. In the elevator he has loaded his revolver to carry death
up to the tower. The upper room is the final test there is just one computer there
it is an image of the beast it blinks on and off saying 666 in burning letters and
now every devil wants to climb the tower is where every minion goes to battle.
Climb the ladder of successes work and slave for all those stresses and
someday you may climb up the staircases of my tower and be the beast who
rules the masses.
Reputation Mind Tower
Reputation
I marveled the emeritus recognition
I felt compelled to sniff the reputations
Somewhat louder than the tradition
I crave the silent, staple self-respect
My tribute, I could not awaken
I crave the conventional, Confucians credo
A notorious celebrity - that notorious celebrity
Somewhat louder than the libido
I crave the ancestry, acclaimed aphrodisiac
Mine reputation
Spans beyond information
Forth wit my education
Sanctions my situation
Covering my operations communication
Be it far from the nation
Generation’s evaluations interpretation
Amidst generational interpretation
4/14/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2022©
he believes his intent is camouflaged
his reputation proceeded him on social media
the women turn away in disgust
a transparent disguise
It takes less than 5 minutes to give yourself a bad reputation
and a lifetime to get rid of it if you're lucky.
Just a valued piece of wisdom I thought worth a mention.
You don't want a bad reputation haunting you the rest of your life constantly.
It takes too long to make a name
It goes so deep and seeks no fame
It can be changed at your request
If you intend and do your best
No one can change the name you make
No one can hide, no one can fake
The truth you know and live by
No matter what they vow to try
Good names do shine like real gold
They shine much more as they get old
They stay behind when we are gone
To speak of us and things we’ve done
How fast life goes, how slow the name!
It goes so deep and stays the same.
26/10/2022