The colours of it
Makes it a profound word
A pleasurable moment
The core values of it
Makes it a rare word
A memorable event
It is who you are,
As the wind
Started to move
That feeling of the unknown
As the sea
Started to wave
That feeling of the known
It is who you are meant to be,
The morals of it
Makes it an imperative word
A special occasion
The ingredients of it
Makes it a wonderful word
It is the seed.
1. Victimisation or Oppression
2. Selfishness/Greed
3. Discrimination
4.Dishonesty/Lies/Bull/Hypocrisy
5.Pompousness/Arrogance/Too much unnecessary excessive Hubris
6.Jealousy/Envy
7. Spite
8. Excess Meticulousness
9.Overeating and gluttonousness in terms of craving for wealth or money
10. Disloyalty/Betrayal including Disloyalty to One's Core Values.
11. Cultural Degradation and Neglect.
12.Ultra Perfectionism.
13.Anyone who claims he or she does not like Music or Poetry.
14.Anyone with an unfounded disdain or hate for his/her fellowman or fellow person.
15. Despair & Pessimism.
16. Calling a spade a leaf.
17.Those who are prone to promoting or advocating violence in any shape or form.
Not all inherit a father's noble name,
Some learn deceit, others theft, and shame.
But I, blessed with a virtuous sire,
Inherited values that my heart desires.
My children will learn to reverence age,
With humility and sobriety, they'll engage.
A caring heart, I'll pass on to them,
Diligence and God-fearing, their guiding gem.
Emancipator, Eldorado, Ephaptha too,
Will learn the core values, integrity shines through.
Estevan and Estefan, honesty and love,
Will be their guiding principles, sent from above.
I'll uphold godliness with contentment true,
A legacy of virtue, forever shining through.
Fall in love
The way you would like to be loved
Words çannot be retrieved
Love yourself
The way you would like to be loved
Words cannot be modified
Entering the Kingdom,
Is the spice or is the sea?
The smell of it
Navigate the world
Is the norm or is the morals?
The core values of it
Navigate the assumptions
Respect is cherished,
Fall in love
The way you would like to be appreciated
Words cannot be a doormat
Love yourself
The way you would like to be honoured
Words cannot be left unsaid
Entering the Kingdom.
Darling I forgive you yet I must part, so my love I am sorely displeased
Even in my forgiveness you have tarnished and dulled mine heart
I forgive yet still I must part, in your untruth displeasure you’ve called me out
Even in my forgiveness you are a lair a cheating doth
But to core values and heart of the matter
My heart matters in this I’m leaving you
For your unfaithful and lawlessness has finally stalled me out,
Darling I forgive you yet I must part
2/20/2024
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
The Owelle
of the realm
of Onitsha
their title,
Zik of Africa
Our vintage title.
Zik a real patriot
with core values
your contemporaries
were at the regions
but you dreamt of one
Nigeria at the center
Tribe and tongue in vain.
The Owelle was a champion
a champion of the center
though your ideals were
thawed by your peers
he solidly stood by it
even in the face
of the civil war
One Nigeria! One Nigeria!!
echoes that kept reverberating
One Nigeria! One Nigeria!!
Time and time again your
relevance proven
Turned sounds of Nigeria
relished.
Owelle of Onitsha
Zik of Africa.
(Written on the 30th March, 2015)
Yesterday I was on a mission to change the world. I was so passionate about change that it was all I thought about. I lived and breathed” change.”I wanted to live in a unified world. I was young and ready to take on the world. I had new ideas( at least I thought they were). I focused on the things we all had in common. I didn't focus on race, religion, and gender. However, I did acknowledge those things because they were important and core values. In the past, they were the “ things.” that brought division. So I decided to focus on the one main thing that we had in common across the board. I focused on being human and nothing else. For a while, everything was going great, and we were striving, and we were starting to see change. And change takes work. Change can be challenging and uncomfortable at times. We must work on “change”every single day. Yesterday I set out to change the world. But in the end, the world wasn’t ready for change.
Alexis Y.
03/21/2021
In midst of these unwanted times,
many students are psychologically
pressured due to loads of school work.
But at the end of the day,
when things go back to normal,
I am sure that they will not remember
the things that we taught to them...
But they will remember the moments
of struggle and hardships...
They will remember the moments
how their teachers cared and supported
them in such ways just to pass
the course.
Should we really think about the students' outcomes? Probably...
Should we focus on teaching the content of
our lessons? Maybe...
Should we pay attention to our teaching pedagogy to make learning
worthwhile? Perhaps...
In my own opinion, we should
emphatize our students and give them
the best emotional support and care.
We need to teach them to share,
collaborate and support one another
with favorable restrictions ??.
Our commitment nowadays
is to act out the core values
and be a humanistic
educator.
After all, care is one of the most
essential needs of a human being
Halo of Life
My existence in a hollow core values seething the gear tastes like salt water pool table and chairs for your hand. Take me off for a half did not receive any such nails straight in my coffin. Boards down the sewers grime low level life never seems like the cols.
Open pages of my heart is a loyal type of friend. I grew up in filters and filth. Smothered my head in the pillows to get the hell out of the day but I wasn’t alone. You were there to hold me back into my back. Come hither Green Piston ring you when I wake up.
How can they lament their injustice in a divided land
While seeking to undermine fundamental truths
Would mock the central tenets of our democracy
Would steal from common folk their right to ballot
While seeking to undermine fundamental truths
White nationalists, Proud Boys, scoffing at decency
Would steal from common folk their right to ballot
Make a travesty of the core values we hold sacred
White nationalists, Proud Boys, scoffing at decency
Would mock the central tenets of our democracy
Make a travesty of the core values we hold sacred
How can they lament their injustice in a divided land
A leader looks forward
He doesn't look back
Makes tough decisions
Rarely backtracks
He's not always right
And he's sometimes unwise
Yet he admits his mistakes
He deals not in lies
He has his core values
When he speaks, he inspires
He may not be beloved
But he's widely admired
For truth is his calling card
He's genuine, sincere
He'll do the right thing
Though it may end his career
It has been quite a while
Since America's been blessed
With a straight-backed President
Who could pass such a test
Yet for the USA to again
Kindle Liberty's flame
We'll need such a leader
Not one who puts us to shame
Never say I'll try to do this work
Just say that I will do this work
Because saying the word try
Nothing but accepting you're weakness
If your words hurt your loved ones
Just say sorry to them immediately
Saying so your ego will not get hurt
Moreover, your value gets enhanced.
Forgiveness is a beautiful thing
Just learn to forgive others
When you do it, forgiving others
You feel much lighter and happier.
Compromise on things what you got
Just find the happiness in every scenario
Never compromise on your core values
Keep your self-respect, and move away.
Having strong principles and core values and living your life
by those principles, always. Not when it's convenient and
never at the cost to be a people pleaser.
I- Intelligent
N-Non-Judgemental
T-Tenacious
E-Efficacious
G-Generous
R-Responsible
I- Inspiring
T-Truthful
Y- You...of course!
August 4, 2019
8pm PST
All Japanese people use ancient glacial ice
Mined from miles below the arctic circle
By sophisticated machinery and drills
Core samples are their way of life
Core values is a reason for holding on
Being Japanese is being Japanese
Is being grounded in their condition
In sushi bars and Geisha nights delights
Fine whiskey over arctic ice
Their world is upside down
In fact, the bottom of the globe
Gravity holds Japan in place
Nowhere near the United States
"Ikiai" is the meaning "reason for being"
Turning Japanese is pleasing
I think I'm turning Japanese
Men and women think alike
They would like to live in peace
With machinery and luxuries
To live forever with chunks of ice
In reality we are all just Asians
In need of gravity to keep from falling off
The bottom of the world seems dangerous
Please send the people glue and sticky stuff
All things being equal we need adhesives
It's not easy being Japanese
As the wind howls outside in the night
Things thrash around breaking with its might
I think about the good and evil
Raising their faces, showing their will
Brewing like a storm in our country
A storm bound for landing, not to flee
A time of reckoning is showing
As we watch and we speak without knowing,
What the damage will be when it’s done
Who will survive retaining blessed love?
Who will hold onto faith from above?
Pleas for justice are calling abound
Some facts disappear without a sound
Spreading truth, not games, mean the most now
To hold onto it, through this somehow
Faith is the answer, restoring hope
As we travel this slippery slope
Let us not forget our core values
In the whirlwind of hatred on news
As the wind howls, keep calm inside
Emerge from conflict, knowing we tried
The truth is the seed within your heart
Do not let it go or break apart
This influential turmoil is strong
Many choices to make right or wrong
With every single moral test,
Winds may be strong, so let’s do our best
Heidi Sands
2/26/19
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