Best Values Poems

                       H o n e s t y,
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The children are our future

Always relate to the truth

An inexperienced and true heart

Asks questions and requires an answer

They deserve your love and respect

We must create human values

First give them roots and later wings

~ Listen, believe and learn ~

















28.08.2017
Sun :) - A-L Andresen :)
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Valuable values

A child receives a beautiful toy,
it came in a cardboard box
with shiny wrapping paper.
A short time later
the child was seen
playing with the box
and the toy was abandoned in the corner.

Was it because the child was ungrateful?
Did the child not appreciate the value
of the gift?
Did...

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--Your Persona, Captures Elegance,
                           Your Heart, Values At Top Rate,
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despite the insistence
of persuasive winds	
firmly
I hold on
to my stubborn roots...

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When most all you've had's been taken,
and the rest all took off and gone.
Been misused and abused,
for so, so long.
When you work so hard,
for all of your day.
Just to take what you make
and have it stripped away.

When it's all been burned
after enough lessons learned.
After everything...

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Mother of Pearl.
Sand slipped inside a shell.
Seagull's morning feast.

There once was a father who wanted time and space
There once was a woman who ran a race.
The children were grown.
Their pockets were blown.
So one retired and the other became an ace.

There's two sides to every story,...

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Who is noble to pay respect which springs from within?
Respect cannot be hidden.
Who is grateful to have the past gratitude?
Respect is the best human sentiment which has no other substitute.
Who is charitable today?
How many does to you a kind word say?
Charity means an act of...

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moral values
no longer exist
Does anybody care?

6/28/15...

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True Values (Rich)


I have seen America from sea to shining sea, but have never left its sandy shores.
I’m older now, but when younger, I longed to see and light up the world.
Now, I do not long to see, but have learned from where I sit,...

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my needs are simple
when isolated 
from my wants
it took a while
to realize
my many wants
were mere
obstructions
preventing me
from
focusing
on my dreams



Published in my 24-page photo/anthology ~GATEKEEPER~ 2020

Submitted on December 18, 2018 for contest MINIMALISM sponsored by CECELIA HOPKINS-DREWER  -  RANKED 1ST...

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Vanity
A poem about vanity in life inspired by Ancient Greek Wisdom

As I wake up abruptly every single dawn
With my body still asleep on futility’s lawn
My spirit needs a fiery, enervating quick jolt
To nail down my awareness with God’s divine bolt

And as the day’s continuity progresses...

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A true angel removes your mask
Seems to be her task
Digs  into your belief system some more
Asks how you gained your values, core

I am a creature of habits old
A product of my experiences untold
A book easily read
Raised on biases instead...

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Grandpa

My grandsons,
Lee, Eoin, Christopher, Rowick.

A boy needs a Grandpa, 
for man-to-man talks. 

To go hand in hand, 
on companionable walks. 

To fix up his toys, 
when they no longer go. 

To tell him the things, 
little boys want to know. 

A boy needs a Grandpa,...

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Held the hand of an elder
Whom ye passed by, and
Bring it towards thy forehead;
An apropos of respect!

Never questioned the face,
Never answered the light
Esteem them as thy highnesses;
A gracious child....

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