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You gave me a name that I have worn for many a year;
A name spoken well of you to me that made me proud.
By your life example, you gave me dignity and self-respect.
You graciously extended to me ambition and individual initiative.
Why, dad, you even gave me baseball, radio, and 'the newspaper',
Tools of recreation and communication required of all mankind.
You did not have houses, monies, or lands to give or to leave to me;
But instead, you left a host of memories for me and our families.
You gave me more than enough to navigate the life with which I faced.
I know of no one of such an age, but you would be 116 years of age in 2021.
I do not remember the day, but I recall you were born in the month of April.
During WW 1, you were too young, and during WW 2, you were too old to help
Defend your country militarily. However, during the 30's and 40's, through farming, you helped to feed your fellow countrymen. History will not record
Your personal deeds, but be assured that I shall not allow your descendants to forget you nor your sacrifices. Happy birthday, dad.
041121PS
"WHERE EVER WE ARE BORN,
WHERE EVER WE MAY LIVE!
WE ARE ONE - WE UNDERSTAND!"
We stand together against injustice.
We don't discriminate, we stand for each one in society.
We love, we understand, we cooperate.
We never hesitate in extending help.
We never calculate, we don't follow give and take.
We are intelligent, we work hard.
We are the best!
YES! WE ROCK!
STILL THERE ARE A FEW CHANGES, WE NEED TO MAKE OURSELVES FLAWLESS AND PERFECT!
(My personal understanding and analysis.)
It's not an advice; just for you!
It's equally applicable to all and to me too!
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram,
We are more into living a virtual life.
Wake up and come out dude!
And be FLAW - FREE!
Let's be! Let's be FLAW - FREE!
Money and Gadgets and Comfort and Ease,
Let’s not be so focused, ruthless and selfish!
Live your life and be FLAW - FREE!
Let's be! Let's be FLAW - FREE!
Technology, Knowledge and Expertise is our asset,
Let’s not treat elders as liability, junk and illiterate!
Respect them and just be FLAW - FREE!
Let's be! Let's be FLAW - FREE!
Live ins and Relations are trending,
Let’s also maintain limits and dignity set by the society.
Freedom and Integrity....... and be FLAW - FREE!
Yes, we are the voice, we know our rights.
Responsibilities!...let's not lag behind!
Just do your due and be FLAW - FREE!
Let's be! Let's be FLAW - FREE!
Fear less, Straight forward, logical or may be a bit rude,
We speak up for justice on many issues.
And may be reactive and immature!
We have got better brains, Come on let’s put it to better use!
And just be FLAW - FREE!
Let's be! Let's be FLAW - FREE!
Drugs, Smoke and Drinks; that’s a fad…an essential part of THE Swag!
Maintaining moral values and ethics is necessary to save us from fall and defeat.
Open your eyes and keep climbing to be FLAW - FREE!
Let's be! Let's be FLAW - FREE!
What about Inner satisfaction, Self respect, Fame and Dignity?
YES, not to others! In the end we are answerable to ourselves at least!
Look into the mirror and say, we are FLAW - FREE!!
YES! PERFECT AND FLAW - FREE!
Date: 25th December; 2020
YOUR ADVICE TO THE YOUTH POETRY CONTEST
SPONSORED BY: EDWARD IBEH
Isn’t our life a clever game of chess,
Where chance and actions equally pay
We can’t approach life like a naïve amateur
Each move be cautious for success to pave way
Some ties, though broken need to be mended
When a crack forms, it can be fixed with cement
Every dissension or hurt do not deserve goodbye
With a little effort, some bonds, we can easily mend
When ego masquerades as dignity or self- respect
One is hesitant for a compromise or reconciliation
A humble word or a kind gesture can heal a hurt
They can easily pave way for instant reparation.
Some relationships are extremely toxic,
Where one longs for a permanent liberation.
There, the bridge is to be burnt down,
Without any qualms or the slightest hesitation.
Life is all a question of sound selection.
If one makes choices that are dependable
One can effortlessly chart one’s way to success
Mend fences worthy and burn bridges ignoble.
I surfed upon the seas of Time
As avidly as would a mermaid,
Ecstatic and confident
That I rule over the waves
As a mighty Goddess
Well anchored in my own principles
But I never expected these waves
To turn rogue
And to smash me down to the ocean floor
Broken,
Into millions of little pieces,
Having to wait for the mercy of little polyps,
As they slowly but steadily put me back in shape
My reconstruction took days, months, years even
And all this time,
The clock kept ticking
Laughing at me, while looking
At what had become of me
But meanwhile,
I learned how to feed my new body
With inner strength, with self love, self care,
And self respect and even with the ability
To depend upon none else other than myself,
Especially there where emotions pertained
So much that
When I rose to the surface
To surf upon the waves of Time once again,
They shuddered and cowered, awe struck,
At the new me!
Time can break, surely,
But it can also be the greatest healer,
Since,
Its magic plays itself in our inner selves,
And we have to be able to open our hearts and souls
To its subtle spells!
An impotent soul wrapped with a police seal
Married a merchant and stopped bearing Jill
everyone must care, that’s how it feels
traps of superiority placed like banana pills
mutual respect losing every match five-to-nil
demanding the showering of majestic praises so unreal
that are schemed and manufactured from a rusted mill
to cover a void that can never be filled.
Confidence owns worth for self-respect and exaggeration to steal
me, myself and I, makeup the three-square-meal
ego prioritized, a major condition in every deal
insisting that the screws are not as important as the wheel.
It is always said that blessed are they who climb the hill
but they look down the foot of the mountain to see ants worthy of a kill
despite the accolades, undermining others is their zeal
loud on the success, louder on the associated vigils
winning comes with feathers, before eating the meat, you must peel
or else, there will be a heavy mention on destruction’s will.
I hate to break this to you
But I've got some awful news
Seems our parents as we grew up
Weren't telling us the truth
Life is not the party
The older that you get
Adulthood's gonna kill ya
If it hasn't done it yet
Never once was mentioned the fall out
Starting with the hair and teeth
I'm not sure they even would have told us
If they hadn't first lost their memory
Or that the ache
When you first awake
Will be the best
That you feel all day
And what the taxman doesn't take
The undertaker will
That is if you have anything left
After a lifetime of paying bills
Yes, never did they tell us
As we were quickly on our way
That we'd live every waking moment
With some sort of stabbing pain
Or that if and when we make it to the end
We'd lose all our self respect
Having strangers bathe and change us
In our state of drooling mess
I'm sure they thought it funny
Those wild old crazy coots
Keeping age a secret
And us out of the loop
Not sure I could ever forgive them
For all the lying that they did
I guess the only option is
Not to tell our kids...
When I was younger I had
an answer for everyone
and everything
A word of wisdom
or encouragement
for every situation
But the longer I live
the less I have to give
Not sure whether
I ran out of words
along the way
simply spent my share
or whether, sometimes,
there are no words
left for anyone
to say
Yes, the longer I live
the less I seem to
have to give
Oh I have love-
and empathy...
Enough feelings to
drown the world
in a Biblical-size flood
of emotion
But nothing more
no other store
of things to say
Seems every time lately I
leave my house
I see someone
homeless, down-on-their-luck
desperate, quietly pleading
voices softly whispering
as not to disturb
their last dangling
delicate shred
of self-respect
and dignity
Which is hard
because there's not
much dignity in
begging for the basic things
like food, or shelter
from the cold
And while not yet homeless
I can't help, as I'm too
down-on-my-luck, too
And I wonder
what the difference is
between me and you
and them-
we're certainly no better
just people, jars of clay
what's to guarantee
that that won't be me...
someday?
Who am I to another, the one I chance to meet?
Trusting each other, affirms a basic strand of health,
a ground of justice and peace.
Who am I among all plants and creatures? What I eat,
the air I breathe; to get it right roots me here in health,
companion of bees and trees.
Who am I to myself? – feelings, thoughts, every heart beat.
In truth to know myself, gives me self-respect and health,
enabling me to live at ease.
Here we are in the One who made us, who would complete
in us the best, binding strands, bonds of life for health –
at peace, from conflict released.
Eyes wide open, but still blind
Feelings raw, but frozen
Words unspoken, with rage within
Saddened by the life she’s chosen
She cannot find the ’her’ within
She’s lost, without her power
Reality has now set in
Just like a cold wet shower
Her dignity screams for release
Her psyche now awakes
And finally, it took too long
It’s time, for goodness sake!
Her eyes once blind, now clearly see
Her strength is back, it’s booming
She gathers all her self-respect
And now revenge is looming
But then her dignity steps in
And counsels her with grace
While leading her with gentle grip
To the exit of her maze.
Wendy Nipas
Imagine a life, without worry or hurt, without sadness or happiness, without love or hate, without trust or loyalty, life doesn't have existence , life is a gift, we should treat it with self-respect, and dignity, becuz without all these things, life stands still... In darkness mistakes are what make us and defines us all, to learn great things, to take second chances for our selfs, to greatly teach others especially our youth, that there is life at the end of a rainbow, which is a symbol of new life an new beginning.... As We reconcile, with faith for god.....Unity n' Peace, I reprehend that we all take one for the T.E.A.M.
T-ogether
E-verybody
A-chieves
M-ore......