Best Responsibilities Poems


Is There a Star In My Name

A three year old dreamy child
lying down beside his dad
at night on the open terrace
eyes wide open gazing at the sky
asked him the following question:

"Dad what are those bright white speckles above?"

"They are stars", dad replied.

"Will they fall down on me?"

"No. They will not".

"They are so bright and shiny. I wish to go up there and play with them".

Dad laughed at his little one's innocence and said:

"My dear, they are huge glowing balls of gases in the universe. Our sun is also a star. There are trillions of stars in the universe".

The child was silent for some time.

He stared gape-mouthed at the
black canvas of the night sky
sprinkled with silvery dots
guided by the glorious full moon
for some time and asked his dad:

"Do they have names?"

"Yes. Some have names we give to them but most of them do not"

"Is there a star in my name?", the child asked with sparkling eyes.

His dad replied:

"If you grow up to shine bright to eliminate the darkness of ignorance..."

"If you share your love impartial to all, just like the stars sharing their energy..."

"If you are steadfast in carrying out your responsibilities to make the world a better place..."

"Then there sure will be a Star in your Name!"

The child gave a bright smile as if
satisfied with his dad's answer.


Date: 11/11/2020
Submitted for 'There Is A Star With My Name On It Poetry Contest'
Sponsored by: Silent One

Second Place

Premium Member Bumblebees Responsibilities

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                                       Bumblebees visit Lamb's Ear
                                  Love has surely brought them here
                                        Workers are helping mother
                                             Feed all grubs pupae


Contest:Flowers, Trees, Grass, Bees
Sponsor: Francine Roberts
Choice: Bumblebees
Form: Dodoitsu

Premium Member Responsibilities of a Boss

the boss should listen
acknowledge and respect everyone
show integrity and fairness
not show favoritism
so he can retain workers


Responsibilities Are Avoided

Responsibilities Are Avoided

Of many fact, we may lose site
What you should do is to write
About items we are not aware
But for must be sure to care.

Supreme Court Appointment comes to mind
Process to go through so we can find
A person with appellate background
And around axle will never get wound.

Sets example to follow start to seek
Who day in and day out week after week
With great knowledge that does expand
Needed and necessary to run this land.

Maybe my many poems things will lack
Have errors and are not precise or exact
So while my coffee desires to percolate
Hopefully, you this poem will motivate.

James Thomas Horn,
Retired Veteran, Poet and Soothsayer

PS.
So a poem pull out or will you pass
Surely put off and tend to procraste
Things not cleaned end up corroded
Happens when responsibilities are avoided.
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Couplet

Take Responsibilities

Take Responsibility 

The defining point of bearing and taking responsibility is incidentally the very moment of achieving and delivering a proven result.

You can be respected, you can be celebrated, you can be the point of focus at any time and at anywhere. All you need to do is to be purposefully  purposed to take responsibilities for results.

A result focus activity is a way of productive thinking. 
When you have finally decided never to blame nor accuse anyone,
When you come to the point of realization of what to do to make things, situations or issues better,
When you have chosen to open up the windows of your mind and throw out all excuses,
Then, results will follow. 

Your result will automatically neutralize all insults. Result is the end of all arguments and only a man of little knowledge doubt proofs.

I know you are trying your very best, it's either you overcome or you get overwhelmed.
I know you have made several calls to the customers but without sales there will be no result.
I know you have attended the lectures and the class but without a graded result to show, it's a waste.
I know you have stayed on diet but without a corresponding loss of weight or staying healthy, it will be mere activities. 

There are many books to read, many lecturers to listen to and great number of sermon to hear but above all, it is results that count.

Not what you had read
Not where you work,worked or schooled
Not how much more you had tried
Not even your lineage or your entitled background 
What really, truly matter is result. 

Results attract. People listen and camp under the people with proven results.

Result is a big deal. It separates the lead and the leader.

Therefore do everything legitimate to deliver result. 
Happy Sunday ??????
© Don Bukana  Create an image from this poem.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities
like a necklaces
on our necks
is no longer a stranger 
like the shoes we wear 
is no more new 
like the clothes 
on our bodies
we always need to 
cover our necked ness
of responsibilities
in the world of 
work and bills
in a society 
with loads of deceit
it never ends 

responsibilities
in every third world 
countries is
like the clock on the wall
it always a reminder
like a boss it controls 
our world 
we are trapped in a
deep well of responsibilities
with it sharp objects 
of hardship
on it walls
it always cracks our 
efforts 
it always tear down 
our dreams
a very dangerous well
a well full of trials and error

responsibilities
we own a lot responsibilities
on our shoulders
at our feet are a lot circumstances
and  our hands are empty 
despite our minds are willing 
to take what ever it cost 
just to survive
yet we got no satisfaction
so we still got to hope 
on every tomorrow
in the time when we stand
alone with no support
in the time when we fight
for our survival with out 
our leaders help
we got no choose 
like a situation of
do or die despite 
no adequate provision
of sustainable source of 
basic needs in our country
what a hard situation
yet home and abroad
we still keep keeping 
up to our 
responsibilities
Form: Epic


The Moment of Survival

The moment of survival

In life,
If the geography of the journey has been seen, then
The heart will breaks in pieces on happiness
The joy of  moving- the galaxy of destination
 imaginations / dreams
+
On the go
If the way is seen
the environment becomes glorious
in the speed of walking and the rhythm of the road
a nice musical performance of the footsteps and the path,
+
Moving ahead
If  one's feet finds a place  to put
Just look!
excellent
Accident less
Safe journey,
+
While stepping up
if chances of the footprints are estimated:
guess what !
may go crazy, yes crazy, can have dream, that
There is a future
+
On the go
If there is an impression of land,
only close somewhere  or the fragrance of the soil
the heart stops!
=
but,
In the course of life, if
there is  only you,  no steps
there are senses,     no feelings,
then, impatience life, it trembles
life is in the dark Journey
life is in the black whole

It Depends On Someone Else

THE DIS ADVANTAGE OF BEING UNFAVORED
                          IN THE EYES OF HER FRIENDS
               MIGHT CAUSE YOU TO RETHINK YOUR STRATEGY
THE INFLUENCE OF OTHERS MIGHT MAKE HER TO PUT HER FAITH
                     IN THOSE WHO WISH TO SEPARATE YOU TWO
                       FINDING COMMON GROUND MIGHT MEAN
             DOING SOMETHING YOU'RE NOT COMFORTABLE DOING
               THEN YOU MIGHT LASH OUT AGAINST THAT SOMEONE
                                BECAUSE THE RESULTS DIDN'T
                        TURNOUT AS YOU PLANNED OR WISHED
                       WHICH HURTS HEAL TO BRING ON ANOTHER
                   MY THE SORES OF NEEDING MAKE ME WISER AGAINST
                                      BEING HURT AGAIN
                    MIGHT THIS MAKE ME WISE IN DOING SO
Form: Ballad

Premium Member Fragmented Responsibilities

What would it take
to understand
a right to life
includes a right to choose well-being
or failure
for one's internal identities,
organs,
organisms?
AND
A right to choose
self-embodied empowerment,
health,
is a right to life redemptive choice
over deadening felt loss
of continuous healthy lifetime,
now present
and on through long-term future identities,

Vocations of sacred being wealth
of identity's integrity,
rooted in EarthTribe experiences,
memories collapsed from all past life-streams.

Perhaps if we reduced abortion charges
rhetoric
from self-righteous indignation against "Murderers"
to a form of relentlessly catastrophic manslaughter
no child of capitalism has not known
at least in lack of active co-investing intention,
passion to open a dialogue door
toward win/win complexly inter-connected solidarity 
rediscovered within healing discernment
about who is responsible for choosing this win/lose slaughter
and who is not responsible
for lack of win/win options.

Should we actually find
at least some One innocent enough
to cast the last win/lose might makes right
evolutionary stone
aimed against the rest of us
for massive lack of win/win hope-inspiring integrity

That iconic One
radically free from transparently disvaluing vulnerable lives
and toxic choices
to slaughter part of our sacredly connected selves

Free for listening to our own shared experience
of this interdependent Earth life web,
Longing for more resilient
sure
buoyant healthy,
co-relational, without cancerous mutiny,
co-creation
liberating Earth life for slow-growing ever deeper
interdependent win/win choice,

Wherever
and whenever EarthTribe will listen to loss and gain
freedom and pain
internal yet multicultural GoldenRule voices
against throwing stones
against cooperative-intended health care
as if we and they both mattered;

Mother and child,
EarthMother and naked 
vulnerable
divinely humanizing children 
reborn into Earth's continuing potential
for unfragmented Paradise.

Premium Member Bumbled Bee

Bumbled bumble    bumble bee
   flew from    bloom to bloom,
   busy-busy-a-buzzing-buzzy-busy
Heard by flowers 
from here to there, a-mumbling to himself...
saying… no-not-right, no-not-this-one, no-no-not-good.

Until    finally    touching down 
on daisy's yellow landing pad
   for the gathering
of his day    harvest.

As so be   for me   busy 
   all a-buzzing   all the day,
programmed    for mindless tasks
   of mute survival
   of all that
      ‘must-do doing’
       ‘I just-have-to…’    
all that buzzing work 
   for    to gather
   all the must-haves 
for my day   harvest.

The Elegy In a Man's Throat

Where take I this little fortune
Upon the measures of my obligations
To fight my self problematic battle
and cater for and feed my little nation
Though the sun wakes to find me alive
but only to add more to my daily cries
Silently do I endure this pains
that leaves sorrow upon my heart a stain
How hard on this ocean that I may float
with the elegy in a mans throat

O death , O life
so sweet so bitter
O children , O wife
upon my heavy shoulders

Where take I this little wealth of mine
That I shall provide for my daughters and sons
for everyday I wake with jars devoid of wine
as the morning accost me with the ugly sun
Long have I lived to wake with tears
with poverty and little fares
It's bitterness to wake with such shame
that made each day seems the same
Where beneath this heaven can I cope
With the elegy in a mans throat

O death , O life
so sweet so bitter
O children , O wife
upon my heavy shoulders
© King Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

What Defines Me

The late night sleep,
Spent my days with the phone in my hand,
And a pair of speakers in my ears
Doesn't defines me.
All day with phone in my hands,
Songs played from the list and,
The energy I receive,
That defines me.

The words I speak,
With the aggression people give,
For a minute or more,
Doesn't defines me.
The aggression people give,
The way I act as them around me,
The way I love,
That defines me.

The way I roam,
With no wants of my own,
But the responsibilities I carry,
Doesn't defines me.
With wants of my own,
Not careless but carefree,
The satisfaction shown,
That defines me.

The person people choose,
Me to be,
The way they take me,
As granted or luck,
Doesn't defines me.
The way I take them,
Eyes of hater,
Or the ships to take care ignoring how tough
That defines me.

Lucky Members of the World Get Responsibilities

duty itself is reward if performed
                                      first prize if done perfectly
                                 second prize if done with due care
                              third prize if done with reasonable care
                             Gold medal if done with devotional heart
                         lucky members of the world get responsibilities
                                to do something on behalf of God
Form: Verse

Shrinking Responsibilities

In theory,
time fits
what remains 
for me
to do
into what 
time remains
for me
to be
Form:

Premium Member From Paper Bags To Plastic Bags

From paper bags to plastic bags 
From manual cars to automatic cars
From telephones to handphones
But in the political world
The world stays stagnant 
For just a split second
The youngsters who are the future hosts
Never take concern
And emerge to take over any responsibilities
We see oldies who are leaving sooner or later
Taking concern of everything
The youngsters still got many years to go
Sure they aren't willing to face 
A future world of chaos and poverty

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