Best Virtues Poems
Absurdity, chaos,
strife:
The poet chooses
virtuous reality.
Sisyphus, a
titanic wave of metamorphosis, waiting, salted nausea:
The thinker roughed by sand
a solitary tree in a barren desert
defies absurdity
by seeking meaning in the absurd.
Authenticity,
vision, conformity, religion:
The rebel a roaring
wildfire igniting change like:
authenticity,
vision, and non-conformity
forging their own path.
Project,
reflect, individuality:
The human river
tasting the minerals of experience
expresses identity
and discovers themselves.
Leap,
Übermensch,
ethics,
logotherapy:
The agent
acts with freedom and responsibility
finding purpose.
Meaning,
joy, void, hope:
The sweet-smelling optimist a sunflower
fills emptiness with hope
seeking light in the darkness.
Truth,
illusion, reality, fiction:
The rationalist
discerns the real and the imagined.
Contradiction,
logic, emotion:
The harmonist
strives for balancing
the rational and emotional.
Freedom,
authenticity, manipulation, conformity:
The individualist
resists pressure and influence.
Awareness,
paradox, courage, hope:
The existentialist
embraces the absurd and transcends.
Leak,
speak,
strike,
kneel:
The activist challenges-
The status quo and injustice.
Tirelessly fights for justice!
Death,
suicide, violence, genocide:
The mortal
faces limit and horror with courage.
Despair,
nightmare:
The lover
shares and cares with love.
Existence
precedes essence?
Or essence
precedes existence?
The question
haunts forever.
The Stoic
Observes, unmoved yet aware:
Virtue alone suffices
whether essence or existence;
In reason and nature
we find our constant companion.
Sacrifice and selflessness they taught,
Withering feathers kept yearning for the sky,
Values with the soul, fought!
Lord God, send us Your Divine and Moral Virtues to assist people
Faith, to deeply understand and produce evidence to the unseen
Impart Hope to be determined and persevere successfully
For persons to consider a little generosity to Charity
To present Prudence by being careful
For untruthfulness to bring into Justice
Give fortitude for lawmakers and government officials to be strong
Bring in Temperance to exercise Patience and Tolerance
We ask these in the name of Father Christ Jesus to send out the Virtues of the Holy Spirit
Amen.
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P is for the passion in our pursuits and patience in our frustrations.
O is for originality, open-mindedness, and optimism in a world of pessimism.
E is for the enchanting elegance of simplicity, empathy, and energy in expression.
T is for truth where your word is as good as gold and trust replaces doubt.
R is for being real and respectful for the words whispered from the soul.
Y is for yearning, and yes, always believe in poetry, dreamers, and you.
Rainbows painted in the sky
White daffodils singing in the rain
Drops of dew glistening in the morning sun
Clear desert pools of cold spring water
Red plump strawberries nestled in green beds
Summer mountain meadows of grasses and blooming flowers
Golden stands of Aspen glowing in the setting sun
Scented pines and carpets of needles baring naked warmth
Autumn leaves of red yellow and brown fluttering in the waning sun
Thunder and lightening flashing banners across the sky
Flooding rains and hurricanes calling an end to summer
Silent snowflakes underneath dark fluffy clouds
Winters brown weeds standing tall and lean
Black mud oozing through naked feet
Dirty snow melting in the city streets
Dead stumps rotting in the ground
Marsh gas wafting up between your toes
Mosquitoes swarming after your eyes and nose
Clouds of flies feasting on earthly remains
Sailing in their long ships with a dragon head on the bow
Vikings were a hardy people from a land of ice and snow
Known for their adventures far wide and across many seas
Bringing culture and beliefs, sailing from 950-1050 A.D.
Traders who settled, leaving their Danish homeland
Looking for a heaven found by the name of Vineland
In their Gods was a strong belief, by Odin they were lead
Blazing by the virtues of nine in their stead
TRUTH was a belief held in high regard, from deep within
In the sense of honesty- essential for kith and kin
Ruled by HONOR- morality more than reputation
Without regret these Vikings lived, no hesitation
Following in the ways of Frey, FIDELITY to the Gods
To their family and clan, they lived without facade
DISCIPLINE is the action to all beliefs they held fast
Personal will - their conquests to lands unsurpassed
The civilization practiced HOSPITALITY to unselfish ends
Never knew when on a cold night, one might need friends
INDUSTRIOUSNESS made the Vikings active with vitality
Living each day to it's fullest, abundant morality
The clan could not survive without SELF RELIANCE
To do for one, is to do for all- tribe alliance
COURAGE and bravery to face life's struggles and PERSEVERE
Foraging upon strange lands and taming the new frontier.
Won 3rd place in the "Broad Horizons" contest by Deborah Guzzi
The Nine Noble Virtues of the Vikings.
A. Green
What else could Justice be than the equal
Application of the Law’s provision
To the interest of diverse parties?
I do not have to share your values to
Share your constitution and citizen’s
Rights. Even though tomorrow, we may find
Ourselves on the aisle’s opposite sides,
Today we march in solidarity.
She is blind, our Lady holding the Scales,
Impartial to your status. But Ideal
Conditions seldomly prevail, and he
Who brings the greatest money to the bar
Gets to create the story being told,
While the poor are fitted to their fiction.
My sky is having million stars, difficult to pick one in million
All having own shine, ranking any one sure to cause a rebellion
Yet, numero uno tracked by merits through process of elimination
Selection complete, its results time, my better half is one in million
Spoilt brat was I, uncensored were bachelor days of life
She stepped in, anchoring work and family as dream wife
Space and freedom she carved out with love’s knife
Boundless joy bloomed within new boundaries of life
She is mother of my children, my sky lit with two sons bright
Groomed in academics, sons featuring in India’s and State’s merit list
Nurtured them to evolve as good humans in world full of beast
High Moral Values embedded, family’s beacon ensured perpetual light
During my health scare, she was by my bed as Nightingale
Deftly coordinating with surgeons, calming kith & kin anxiety well
Science powerful tool for new life, her devotion powering Yama* to repel
Am fit and fine, enjoying blissful moments, gratitude to my Life’s angel
Am managing big in outside world, but at home am lost without her
Cooking, clothes, children, many chores she worships, never does she forbear
She holds the castle, hosting love, peace, joy, keeping at bay grief and fear
Not just one in million, but million virtues are in one - my dear treasure
(*) Yama : As per Hindu mythology Yama is Death deity
( Placed 8th in Members contest Nov 2010 – One in million by Linda Marie The Sweetheart of P.S.)
Covered in darkness wearing a veil of evil the bride stands before her groom
and a vile host of wedding guests. The heat and hate that filled the air was so
thick that they all choked on it. Baffled and amazed that Lust the biggest ****
ever was about to be wed to Greed. Everyone watched with anticipation as a
union of sin was joined in unholy matrimony. The words that flowed from
the mouth of Pride the priest cut through the air like swords. "Disgustingly
wicked we have come together in the presence of demonic forces to behold
the joining of this devil and **** in unholy matrimony. This band and
covenant of marriage was established by evil in darkness. Lust will you have
Greed to be your husband; to live together in the covenant of marriage? Will
you obey him, lay with him and fulfill his sexual desires as long as the both of
you shall live?" With the flames of hell burning in her eyes Lust answers "I
will". "Greed will you have Lust to be your wife; to live together in the
convenant of marriage? Will you supply and adorn her with riches as long as
you both shall live?" With a twinkle in his eyes that sparkles like gold Greed
answers "I will". "By the powers invested in evil the bride and groom may kiss". As their lips
touched their
wedding guests were as silent as a corpse. Turning her back to the wedding
guests Lust throws a bouquet of Poison Ivy and Venus flytraps over her head.
Stepping in front of Sloth, Envy snatches the bouquet out of the air.
Written by Keith Edward Baucum aka The Green Poet aka Red Seven aka The
Brown Philosopher
Being noble is good and desirable.
Goodness is pleasant and noble virtue.
When one is good and pleasant. It’s also true
He should be praised in manner most noble.
Praise,good and pleasurable experience,
Shames me for I beg for it secretly.
Man seeks praise deep in his dirty conscience
So he is of all creatures most greedy.
Greed is not a virtue. It is a vice.
This has to be said quickly otherwise
You, my black friend, may begin to forget
Men that we are, can never be perfect.
Liberality, to give; not to hold back.
It’s opposite of greed. The liberal soul
Shall by providence and fortune be fat.
This age long truth is something we all know.
Magnanimity, to help largely.
Magnificence fuels the magnanimous.
See what thing virtue has turned you-famous;
With your name on lips you are yet to see.
Courage means being useful in a struggle.
It demands that certain laws be broken
To achieve the good of a trod people;
Piling sacrifices till truth’s proven.
Heroism.Terrorism. Folks and strokes:
See differently where they stand each moment.
The world keeps talking even till it croaks.
Yet east and west can’t come to agreement.
About nine eleven and desert storm.
The Bushes Being Laden with wars and strikes
Are both heroes and terrorist alike.
Each seeing the other in the other form.
The wind that breaks the mighty Irokos,
I will take my time, on these lines, to weave.
Such that, your praise, all will come to know.
Praise shames me giving or receiving it.
Because (I know) secretly I seek it,
Yet it’s altogether honorable.
And for you today, I’ll take the trouble
Such desirable virtues you possess.
Liberality.Magnanimity.
Nobility. Courage (I must confess)
Gentleness.Prudence and Humility.
What teacher taught you such wisdom to know?
Fortune and Providence embrace brave men.
Good luck and riches awaits the prudent.
The heavens smile upon the liberal soul.
They all smile at you. We all understand,
Yet some may have for you a different song;
That such and such you suppose to have done,
But always remember. You are just man.
These lines can go on spinning with praise,
But let me reserve what’s left within
For other future occasion and place
Where they will with much nobility fit.
Not valued as gold which still glitters when covered with dust,
honesty is the most prized of all virtues that define one's spirituality;
and if all practiced it, others would give many glances of trust:
who has known an honest person who was actually deceived by vanity?
Abraham Lincoln was one of those people,
and our society should follow his example;
if something is not earned, it can't be enjoyed...
conscience is a voice that cannot be ignored.
A thief knocks down an old lady and snatches her purse;
he runs to hide where nobody finds him to avoid prison...
whatever made him do it, he will not escape from justice,
or his conscience that will make him weep as children.
Be fair in everything you do, keep your honesty and try to be wise;
you will be surely remembered as someone who didn't cheat to rise.
They were hated, berated, and degraded They were demoted, denied, and deprived
They were traded like livestock and treated worst than animals They were a people detained, renamed, and reduced to property
They were displaced, disgraced, disrespected, and disenfranchised They were captured, chained, and maimed; battered, beaten, and bruised
If we were one of them, how would we feel? How would we deal?
How would we heal? How would we then live?
I am saddened by their slavery, but I am inspired by their bravery. When I pause, I discover the magic of a mystery.
I clearly see virtues hidden in their tragic history. I am touched when I sense a 'virtue in their vision'.
They knew that, even if erased without a trace, they had a past. They experienced sorrow but managed the madness of their present.
Me think that their "Tomorrow in the distance" launched their untouchable souls. Though bowed and broken, they visualized tomorrow and paid the
painful toll. Me think that they saw a vision of me in the distant future living happy and free. Me think that they decried the mirrors that painted their
darkened spirit and defied the demons of misery. How else could they have survived their dehumanized plight and thrived as enslaved human beings?
Written061807; Condensed and posted to PS 02262018
Black History Month 2018
"By the powers invested in evil the bride and groom may kiss". As their lips touched
their wedding guests were as silent as a corpse. Turning her back to the wedding guests
Lust throws a bouquet of Poison Ivy and Venus Flytraps over her head. Stepping in front
of Sloth, Envy snatches the bouquet out of the air. "Nice catch Envy" said Sloth with slow
slurred speech. "Think you Sloth and I do believe green is more my color". Turning around
to see who caught the bouquet Lust wasn't a bit surprise to see Envy holding the Poison Ivy
and Venus Flytraps. "Well Envy I guess you're next to be wedded off" stated Lust. Pride
motions for Hatred to release the owls. Unlocking the huge cage Hatred releases the owls.
Slow to take flight the great owls flap their wings and ascends into the darkness. "Let's get this
party started. Turn on the music" yelled Greed. As the sins partied the night away the sun came
rising in the country Tranquility. "Are you ready to spend all eternity together?" Loyalty asked Love
as they stood on their balcony. "My dear, dear, husband soon to be you already know the answer
to the question you ask". As Loyalty and Love stand locked in a warming embrace being kissed by
the rays of the sun the two share a kiss of their own. Beep, beep, beep, "Well this is a perfect time
for my communicator to beep" breaking her embrace with Loyalty, Love answers her communicator. "Hello Faith how are you?" "I'm fine Love and how are you?" "I'm ready to
start this new era in my life". "I'm looking over your wedding file. Are there any last minute
changes you want to make?" "No Faith everything's perfect". "I'm outside your house waiting for
you Love. Let's get going". "I'll be right down. I have to go Loyalty". Grabbing Love by the waist
and pulling her close Loyalty whispers in her ear "Are you sure this is what you want?" "I've wanted
you when I first saw you. Now if you'll excuse me Faith is waiting for me".
Written by Keith Edward Baucum aka The Brown Philosopher aka Red Seven
Judgement’s fine line runs betwixt Prudentia’s
Right and Left hands. In her right, the mirror
Offers serious reflection on life
Lessons learned in crucibles of choice --
Wisdom bridles rash reactive impulse.
But in her left is the serpent coil’d,
Hissing, intimidating, strike ready
With venom of conscience paralysis.
Counting the cost, thinking alternative
Courses to their conclusive end, is right.
What motivates me to action? Impulse
Of vengeance, or sure defense of the Truth?
But Fear of the Cost’s inconvenience is
Cowardice cloak for blind eyes turn’d away.
I stand tall
in this belief
patience and understanding
faith in hope
with loves purity
with a manliness
judgement impaired
struggling within desire
passion and courage
a fortitude
in the perfection
of something
so beautiful
Without tolerance
poor justice served
in love controlling
thoughts within emotions
forgiveness and mercy
hold all keys
I am a god fearing man
feelings tore
to pieces
Without mercy
only one wisdom
is the supreme judge
of all that I am
having faith
in courage
light of hope
shines her beacon
with love
Restricted in
deep senses
cast into darkness
hurting deeply
Hell's fire burns
inside the heart
I donated it
as a gift
of beauty everlasting
freely to you
Charity a moral virtue
in subject matter
how dare anyone
judge my feelings
on this severe pain
as I fight bravely
in the light
of love
never giving up
Reaching out
of this soul
deeming myself worthy
regulates this man
in regards to honours
the spiritual union
of love
the commitment
in God's light
in spite
of difficulties
What is
morally right
justice in happiness
a knowledge
of natural light within
one reason
we trust divinely
it attains life
in everlasting clarity
we find our peace