Best Unselfish Poems
I was blessed to know a woman in my life
Who faced hard times, struggle, and strife.
A Chinese immigrant, she came from a poor town
Lost her husband, was kept from her daughter, but not kept down.
She had three other children who were born here
Getting them a better life was her biggest fear.
She had to fend for herself and them alone you see,
Speaking little of the language in this foreign country.
But, she had always lived a determined life
So she fought back...with a fork and a knife.
She opened a restaurant in a small community
Where her gracious manner made her friends instantly.
Her children would grow up in town with new friends
The restaurant she opened was the mean to her ends.
She worked very hard...sometimes eighteen hours a day
She never complained because that was her way.
Her life's expectations knew more successes sublime
The restaurant grew...one egg roll at a time.
She once told me of the anxiety she felt at the money she'd spent...
Laughing said, "My uncle said sell 2 qts of Chop Suey/Day...you've got the rent."
She was a woman who chose kindness as she felt had to her been shown
To people far and near her generosity was known.
She was thankful that she had the opportunity
To give back with love rather than animosity.
I first met her over some 30 years back
She struck me from the that moment as a person who had the knack
To make others feel at home though strangers they be
She certainly did, because she did it to me.
I still remember her caring for me...it was shown
Once caught in a blizzard, she opened her home.
So often was there a path to this woman's door
Though she stood, less than 5 foot 4.
Her heart was as big and wonderful as one would want
An earthly angel, she was heaven sent.
Though her health began to wane later in life
She never gave in to that world of strife.
Her eyesight began to fail and it was difficult for her to see
But that didn't stop her or her generosity.
She loved people and filled everyone with cheer
Ever thankful that she had had a life here.
Though she is gone I'll never forget her face
Or her love of life, devotion to family, and unstoppable pace.
To me I'll ever be thankful to have had the joy
Of calling her "Ma" ... ONE IN A MILLION~was Connie Moy!
1st Place Winner - "One in a Million" Poetry Contest
Line of inquiry - Ego shorn, here now reborn.
Unselfish Heart
The glow of the unselfish heart
Decorates emptiness with candles
While scattered relics of garden purity
Re-light votives in Babylon
In the gleam of selfless candelas
Nascent tapers breathe new oxygen
In the eternal fire of the Samaritan heart
Lanterns revive requiems for still born joy
As sunrise glimmers of the merciful spirit
Leave tealights in newborn cradles
When icy enigmatic self-adorations
Flee before incandescent revelations of humility
The glow of the unselfish heart
Decorates new naked selves with candles
Swaddled in the first shy blush
Of tingling flambeaus for new butterflies.
7-2-22
Contest: Ego Shorn, here now reborn
Sponsor: Unseeking Seeker
I think of my Ego
and therefore perceive my bright light space place,
like my self-identity
growing optimally confluent health-power,
says Yang.
Yin co-responds,
We re-connect one EgoZone co-identifying place
within ZeroSoul Zone bilateral
one point of light
toward two-dimensional string of flowing-revolving time,
causally, almost casually, past through health-wealth
WinWin effective history,
fruitful future herstory
WinLose choices
mired in less nutritious suboptimization
of our Left with Right life-power,
And don't even under-poweringly think,
reminds Yang,
about LoseLose
dual dark
chaotic dissonance
not/not eco/ego
outside/inside
matriarchal/patriarchal upside down reversed hierarchical
suppressed ecofeminist Gaia
flow-power speaks effluent YinTruth
to RightWing genocidal
anti-messianic
god made in Man's fragmented reductive penal-envious image
WinLose
ZeroSum Yang uber-dominant
eco-political
egocentric dead-end line
of ballistic story-time.
Yang pleas for more WinLose forbearance.
Yin readily agrees,
but first requires WinEgo-Health explicating WinEco-Wealth
EarthJustice double-binding climate reparations.
Yang asks Yin if we should begin with replanting forests.
"Did you mean to ask for reparations,
ego-centric atonement,
Or health systemic restorations,"
Where ego- and eco-systemic climate futures
remain meta-consciously
bicamerally re-connected
for psychological LeftBrain egos
and ecological nurturing RightBrain memory echoes?
Yes,
Yin dual darkly
Both-not/And-not redundantly double-binary
Non-ZeroSum WinWin
EcoZone Tit for Tat
Restoring EarthJustice
cause-effective
subject-objective
multiculturally co-responds
In full eco-viral feminist
MotherEarth iconic
interdependently networking
Both/And RightBrain
iconic/ironic voice.
I was only three
What a gift you had given me!
A chance for a better life
To grow up and be someone`s wife.
You didn`t walk me down the aisle.
Or hear me say those wedding vows.
I remember the day they came for me
Dad left the house leaving mom to pack for me.
I know both of your hearts broke.
My arms reaching and crying my heart broke.
All those years apart.
I carried my love for you in my heart.
The parents I got are good to me.
Thank you both for loving me.
I am…
The last resort for all your problems
Come to me even when all doors have closed
I shall be waiting to give you succour
Because you’ll be needing it the most
I am the force that lifts you
Give you confidence that you need
To mingle again after a heart-break
Unmindful of mine, your ego I shall feed
You only come to me when your heart’s broken
Never of your own free will, to be with me
I do my best to mend your broken heart
As I’ve learned to be patient to a great degree
Your affection towards me is for a reason
Love, I know is not what brings you here
You pray hard I’m not aware of your designs
But I’ve known all along that which you fear
You never did know why I pursued you
Even when I know you are still playing with me
It’s because in love you’ve learned to take
And in love, I’ve learned to give you my soul with glee
In your hands, lies twenty-four hours to live.
You can cry in your beer…. or smile and give.!
Do you have two legs to walk down the street?
Buy a fresh apple, give it to a homeless one to eat.
If someone walked out of your life, no sweat.
I say find another, with very sweet breath.
All of us have lost those we loved deeply, forever!
But you are the master of your life, yes you, a joy giver!
Please do not ask, what life will do for me!
Ask instead, what will i I do, sming, for thee!
12/12/2924
Lust and greed overwhelm our desires,
We struggle in life, desires unfulfilled,
Yet, the heart is searching for peace and serenity,
Only consciousness will deliver it one day.
Consciousness evokes the world around us,
Selfless service and help to the needy inspire us,
Donate with kindness, uplift the broken hearts, mission it takes,
Love and respect for everyone are the goals kept in mind.
With each breath, I feel life flow,
Awake to all that fades and grows.
The world hums low, a whispered sound,
As earth and spirit spin unbound.
No rush for future, past release,
Just here—this pulse, this quiet peace.
Each moment fresh, a seed to sow,
In light of love, I watch it grow.
When you're tired, pray for the weary
For their strength to carry on
If you're lost and your path's uncertain
Pray the lonely find their way home
If you love this world more than God
Then pray for the addict who's bound
And when you feel that God's far away
Pray for the lost to be found
When supper time comes before you pray
Remember the hungry need fed
And when you're tired, remember those
With no place to lay their head
When you're all alone and afraid
Pray for those who are trapped in fear
And when your prayers hit the ceiling
Pray that God will draw souls near
For God loves a cheerful giver
So don't ever forget to care
And always think of others
With this unselfish prayer
You can have it all, if it was my last dime.
It don't matter if you're rich or poor.
My love will remain, "Theres not a men
how can turn my smile into a pot of
gold, But you"
they can try but won't get to far.
This spark between you and i will last a lifetime
what mines is yours and that is my unselfishness
"You can't give what you
don't have, and you can't
get what you don't give."
Poet: Sparkle Jordan
May/2014
When you're tired pray for the weary
For their strength to carry on
If you're lost and your path's uncertain
Pray the lonely will find their way home
If you love this world more than God
Then pray for the addict who's bound
And when you feel that God's far away
Pray for the lost to be found
When suppertime comes before you pray
Remember the hungry need fed
And when you're tired remember those
With no place to lay their head
God loves a cheerful giver
So don't forget to care
Always think of others
With this unselfish prayer
I was only three
what a gift you had given me.
A chance at a better life
to grow up and be someone`s wife.
You didn`t walk me down the aisle
Or hear me say those wedding vows.
I remember the day they came for me.
leaving mom to pack for me.
I know both of your hearts broke
My arms reaching and crying my heart was broke.
All those years we were apart
I carried my love for you in my heart.
The parents I got were good to me
Thank you both for loving me.
out there on a limb
love without hypocrisy
~actions speak louder
What could be more unselfish
than to give a part of your body
to a complete stranger?
Knowing that your gift will save their life
Not caring that your own life is at risk.
just to help this stranger.
To know that your unself act
will allow them to live
to maybe have their own family
to be for ever be one with them
We need more people like this.
The world becomes a better place.
Most would not even entertain
doing something like this
I can not revel a more unselfish
Than to give a stranger part
of yourself as living gift.
Bless you for all you've given.
That a soul without a twist.
Yet you're scorned by the living.
Shunning are they, so numbing
To dwell in their assess.
Bless you for all you've given.
Beautiful are you, beyond the skin
With soul and vigor, unselfish.
Yet you're scorned by the living.
Your perils do not strengthen
With other's images, other's weakness.
Bless you for all you've given.
And with your heart comes kind thinking.
Alone are you not, others do exist.
Yet you're scorned by the living.
Grateful am i for your breathing
And in my life you do consist.
Bless you for all you've given.
Yet you're scorned by the living.