Rightness Poems

Quenching The Thirst For Knowledge

...As I sat thinking the other day,
A flow of thoughts brought these words to say.
Some were fleeting, some longer lasting, 
Like the evening shadows the sun was casting.

Quenching my thirst for k...

Illusions

...

Life has many mirrors
like a Fun House,
many nooks and crannies
different paths and roadways
that can take you
in various directions
You may believe
steadfast in your feelings
that you ha...

Etched in Stone

...Contest: This or That, Vol 30 – 2-4-25 Sponsor: Edward Ibeh  - Title Chosen: Etched in Stone
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Etched in Stone

Two hearts glare at each other
Clut...

When You Don't Try - You Fit In

...

Being how you are on purpose,
and being what you are is often effortless,
I suggest a course of non-action.
Self-help from mentors
will land you both pickled in the same cosmic jar.
There ar...

mediocrity is accepted

...is appearing as doing the right thing
                            at the  
expense of those that do the right thing

has the point been reached 
                 where near enough is good enough...

Naive Picture of Summer

...On a sunny day, I was walking along the ivy-covered church fence. At the gates a beggar addressed me, politely asking for alms. Got no money, I replied. “Then take some of mine”, said the beggar – “a...

Echo Chambers

...("Outside Looking In Merit Badge" - MB #40, 2011, original oil)

Echo Chambers

'Everybody’s talkin’ at me
I don’t hear a word they’re saying
Only the echos of my mind….'
And so it is, ...

Let's Sing

...Summertime spills her blessings over the night,
Whispers of crickets, playing a symphony,
Melancholic and breathless, like the promises
Faded beneath the soft lilac sunset,
Stirring moments, memo...

Wisdom

...Unto what shall our era be likened?
Are we like unto people of old?
Are we so far removed from the ancient of days
we gain not from the stories they told?

Has the God of our fathers been vanqui...

Languish

...The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
Mahatma Gandhi

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Unassailable Purity

...
Upheld by sublime testimony, verily unadulterated
Never to blend with filthy nuances of naughtiness
Asserting the Word from the supreme great Almighty…
...

The Unsupervised Stop Sign

...The Unsupervised Stop Sign 10-26-23
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The Unsupervised Stop Sign

STOP!
Red lights flash crimson warnings
As arias of bloodred omens swirl about
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Drop the Brush

...We may wonder if the painter sensed
that perfect revealing, that apogee,

and how it was understood
that all else,
anything now added,
would be a superfluous footnote.

When that exactness,
...

Brightness Falls

...?rightness falls on our eyes, 
like the bright summer sunsets, 
the moon revolves around the earth, 
and we are blessed, 
you wear a bright summer dress, 
you are earthy, positive, tasty, 
you ...

Hellspawn

...Spawny, Spawny, he’s our man!
Bought the farm without the land,
fury-fueled, he took his stand.
Life had not gone as he planned.

Evil came to him unjust.
Sent to Hell in sudden thrust.
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