I am pretty much unqualified
To judge poetry contests
To draw cartoons
To paint canvases
To use a chainsaw
To write a book
Yet I do all of these things
Without certification, license or diploma
Because no one has demanded my qualifications
Categories:
qualifications, me,
Form: Free verse
Life is already very tiring
What to do if you don't even
Have a spiritual sustenance
To a lover, life is inspirational
To a painter, the world is a canvas
To a farmer, the field is a worlplace
To a businessman, everything is a profit
To a writer, everything comes from an idea
To a poet, everything is delight of beauty
To a sickly, life is too tiring to live
It's God's mercy that one sickly to preserve
How I wish that everything we do has precaution
To lurk a danger is everything stop or slomo
Or send a warning message in the mind instantly
But no wisdom of precaution for a freeman
For a free moral agent is free for all commodities
Free for success and failure, free to do anything
Free for all qualifications in love and life
Everything in life has its ordeal and mantra
Any assurance is only goodness that is valid
To validate life's itenirary and soul's salvation
Life is not really free in accountancy
We expect every action for any accountability
Life is borrowed and expect the Master appear
To take accounting for His business investment.
Categories:
qualifications, business, life, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
If this G.O.D. is real, then it’s only a matter of time
when we’ll find out if we, mere humans, are worthy
Do we have what it takes to even be considered
for membership? Or must we wander into the Twilight Zone?
Have we developed the proper qualifications
for admittance into the Order?
G.O.D.is constantly intervening
One way, or another
Be it by direct contact - an Angel's voice in the clouds
or secondhand news like the Bible (but It's Good News at least!)
or a crash landing in someone’s backyard (like Roswell)
Why talking snakes or burning bushes
are not a sure sign of probable insanity
One can only imagine
There is so much mystery to be had
Perhaps, it’s time to embrace life by the bells
Even gawk at the enormity of our predicament
It’s time to put aside our petty differences
I'm raising my hand in hopes of being chosen
Because, in my heart of hearts, I know
We may not be the only species
being considered by the G.O.D.
Categories:
qualifications, god, science fiction,
Form: Free verse
Interview with my soul;
My heart hasn't been listening;
I want to just love only you;
My eyes windows are in submission;
Further covered blocked by the view;
I just want to love only you;
I've talk, spoken to your Father;
And in earnest, He's reviewed, my qualifications;
In abundant He's serves His revelation;
I want to just love only you;
Faithful and ever so true, in truth;
I just want to be just only loved by you;
12/22/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2023©
from anthology " a Place 4 Her Heart "
Categories:
qualifications, analogy, engagement, for her,
Form: Free verse
Interview with my soul;
My heart hasn't been listening;
I want to just love only you;
My eyes windows are in submission;
Further covered blocked by the view;
I just want to love only you;
I've talk, spoken to your Father;
And in earnest, He's reviewed, my qualifications;
In abundant He's serves His revelation;
I want to just love only you;
Faithful and ever so true, in truth;
I just want to be just only loved by you;
12/22/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2023©
from anthology " a Place 4 Her Heart "
Categories:
qualifications, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Dear Jan Allison.
Jasmine aroma in her nice and pithy poems
Able poetess has the skills and qualifications to write well poems
Narrates wonderful words, sweet good comments, and beautiful stories
Categories:
qualifications, career, poetess,
Form: Acrostic
When a woman seems a preferable quality
Some folks will still have questions about her qualifications as long as she qualified to play
Her house role quietly and other things quickly.
As she succeeded to apprehend him in her
heart and he comprehended to live there.
Who can have power to cut that rope and elope
With one of them around nights or daytimes?
Question to some accidental luvs who quitted
So quickly while they were qualities qualified
By some choosers who quivering by their exquisiteness,
Whenever they appear sympathetically and romantically.
Categories:
qualifications, romance, romantic love,
Form: Rhyme
Sometimes some
people holding high
qualifications can be
tensed because of a piece
of poetry published
on poetry soup which
They don't well understand
And sound uneducated.
June 23/ 2023
Categories:
qualifications, anxiety, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
My best guess is that it was some 20 years ago that
the number 100 represented years I wanted to live.
This was my request to The Lord, adding that I would
like to revisit the matter then to see if I wanted to
live beyond 100. It was a prayer of simplicity without
conditions, declarations, decrees, or qualifications.
It was all about longevity, legacy, serving God and
humanity. At that point, the matter was closed.
A few years ago, as I was sharing my longevity dream
with a friend, he countered with the fact that he'd
rather not live that long. For Bob, about 85 years
would suffice.
So, I concluded that I needed to revisit The Lord with
an amendment granting me 'a healthy 100 years'. Having
included that caveat, I then felt much better about 100.
I must say that my friend's comment about being both
aged and healthy was a sobering one of which I took
serious note.
When I look across the horizon of our shattered world
and the challenges to be faced, issues personal, foreign,
and domestic that refuse to be silenced, there is a toss
and turn in my spirit. Although inconclusive with second
thoughts, I'm still inclined toward a climb to 100.
062023PS.
Categories:
qualifications, age,
Form: Narrative
When I keep hearing this song so called "
South Africa supplied Russia munitions,"
I just laugh loudly ," Huh?Hahaaah! Hahaaah!
Hahaaah! Hahaaah! Hahaaah!
Hahaaah! Hahaaah! Hahaaah!
Hahaaah! Hahaaah! Hahaaah!
Hahaaah! Hahaaah! Hahaaah!"
Political language is hard to understand
Than mathematics and physics
Reason why some universities
Professors
Turned puppets
Of some politicians.
Don't ever underestimate
Some politicians in politic games
Because they can drible you and
You turn to be
their body guards
With your universities qualifications.
There is no African country
Which has capacity
To supply munitions
to Russia even Ukrain.
If it was about
some foods,
drinks,
cocoas and
other fruits
I could accept because many
African countries always
supplied those stuffs
To so many European countries.
I know that Usa , France, Germany, China, England and Russia are the biggest supply
of munitions In Africa.
By Alfonso Warally Ngengethe
Mussabwa Chris
Categories:
qualifications, africa, military, political,
Form: Free verse
Oh , how I desire universal, racial equality.
Not just forced “liberal” politically imposed. morality.
It must spring from each soul, free as a spring flower.!
Not forced to swallowed, as a lump of hard coal.
Color does not, in anyway make one superior.
Conversely., color does not make any human being, inordinately inferior..
Your abilities and intelligence. should be the only qualifications, for a job.
Not skin .color, of which the many souls, highly qualified, are indeed, robbed,
Even for a poet, such a qualification is a horrid, morbid sin.!
It takes morality, and accepting a human, for the skin they
were born in!
2/2/2023
Categories:
qualifications, discrimination, humanity,
Form: Couplet
Far beyond the supermarket workers and the gardeners building their own allotments, the boy soldiers and the coal-miners with dusty lungs, the women helping mould silver bullets for wars and the ministers off with their leather bound Bibles walking through jungles, past the jolly sailor, the fish-wife and the cook. All carrying their little note book.
The blacksmith and the hunter come back again, over the gulf to hunt through the flamey caves, with their knife and the deer.
And somewhere further afield, the star shines bright, the clasp fastens together our tiny pearls, egg to egg through the mother.
A cluster of gemstones rolled, and still rolling, milky marbles on every continent's slant floors, hungry snowballs, gathering photos of diamonds, postcards and jobs, gathering qualifications, silver-grey hairs and snubs, and forgetting, as those who came before us forgot, to bless those who brought us here, who passed us the torch and stepped back. Now we are brighter flames, but not with fire, with the beauty of knowledge.
Categories:
qualifications, beauty, happiness,
Form: Free verse
I have a voice… going unheard
As loud as a deathening silent
I have from a thousand but one word
Will someone listen to reason?
Why and when was my life decided?
To have an idea but impossible to achieve
Wasn’t money I earned provided?
Yet by standards I’m unable to receive
Do I need qualifications to be free?
But I see obtaining it as part of a program to be controlled
If I’m stupid or perhaps smart enough to be
I choose otherwise if not otherwise only I know…
I am no stranger to loneliness
Losing my family and friends is a matter of time
What troubles me is unfounded solemnness
And how only by division I was made left behind
I have a voice… going silent
As loudly as I hear… goes unheard
To understand I haven’t the qualifications only my reasons
Amounts as much a thousand without a single word
……………….
22/2/2022
Categories:
qualifications, life, self,
Form: Rhyme
Ted doesn’t like his past.
He has yet to think fast:
Clear not shadowy past,
Lies warranting a blast…
Plain Butcher for Doctor
Poor Loser as Victor
Roles that rolled on to jail,
Court’s Ruling to not fail…
Flags we’d fly at half mast
For Heroes who did last;
Ted was The Damned Miscast:
World of Drama’s Outcast!
Ted to break with his past,
Witnesses now aghast:
They’d say he was A Quack,
Qualifications did lack
Worse mention The Buried:
Three Happily Married…
“I come Afghanistan!
First, meet Face Surgeon, Stan."
Categories:
qualifications, abuse, death, evil, health,
Form: Rhyme
Graduate with mission and purpose,
Focus on financial breakthrough
But get a financial slavery...
I have the skills, qualifications
and personal strength align with your
need and mission,
I am the right person for the job,
remains the anthem....
Labour market with labour without freedom,
Life schedule becomes dissipate,
Remuneration with commission,
Referrals with workload,
dreams in feeble..
Time consumption without liberty,
In-depth review to decide fate..
Irrelevancy engulfed,
You're no longer needed,
Disesteem devalued..
Faded without glory..
That's just our Story ..
Categories:
qualifications, graduate,
Form: Narrative
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