If we could look into the seeds of time,
and say which grain will grow and which will not,
we would arrange our affairs defiantly
in the face of current opposition.
If a thought should geminate and flourish
in the barren soil of the status quo,
it would likely be by sheer providence
that ideas would come to fruition.
Our dreams, our very imagination,
are what keep our momentum in this world.
Sans the prospect of incremental feats,
we would not strive to attain excellence.
If the portent of riches entices us,
would we forsake every value system
to attain the pinnacle of success?
No one could portend the foreordained path.
I
When I fall morally
I fall in faith, inwardly
My prayers without answers
Don't deter me, unless I'm addicted
To some moral sin -
Lord Jesus, don't let me slip & spin
Out of thy value system, thy Living Word
II
Miracles for me, usually,
At home or in political spaces
Is the courage to do the right thing, morally:
Love God, Love People, respect the opposite sex
And always, always : recall that God loves justice
I never got to meet her, but she left me with inspiration.
Perhaps I will never meet her, but I was impressed.
Inspired enough to give her a face, a poetic place.
Impressed, because I felt the presence of creativity.
She was both open and honest, and clear as crystal.
Her name was Crystal as indicated on the note she left.
Of her sense of taste and value system, there was no doubt.
I quickly learned from her brief note what she was really all about.
She was about renewal and renovation; restoration and resurrection.
She took an old rusty tool box, and gave it a new life and fresh luster.
Having never seen or met her, we were introduced by an 8-worded note.
Life is indeed many a splendid thing, filled with beautiful people and poetry.
On my car's windshield, her note said, "I am indebted to you for $20". Crystal. No, Crystal, it is I, forever indebted to you, for this poem given
birth by you.
030222PS
I think I shall never see
a difference in an organic tree
and a Win/Win communication string
restructuring through annual developmental time,
or an ecopolitical climate healthcare network
observed from outside
sacred health/wealth space.
Perhaps all examples
of a whole metabolic health optimizing system.
And,
if there be equitable differences
in-between polyphonic and polyvagal sensory systems,
one environmental and the other interior,
Perhaps also integral resemblances
between linear verbally cognized causes
with non-verbal felt effects
predict future co-arising non-surprises
In sometimes ever widening
deep listening
win/win ego/eco-health care
co-arising green cooperative new deal systems
EcoFeminist life multiculturing
nonviolent communication networks
for restorative justice
through polycultural community mediation,
Perhaps calling for analogous skill sets
for analysis
through integral permaculture design
with non-zero zone Whole EarthSystemic
resonant co-empathic therapeutic experiences
on the Right
and resilient cooperative wealth
win/win investment
on our Left
Of one whole metabolic health optimizing
value system.
As the paradigm of evolution down the line
formulates a set of human values of intent,
the survival instinct, an axiomatic need,
gets woven in the fabric of consciousness.
The seeds of empathy embedded in the mind
germinates and grows as sapling of humane traits.
The buds of beliefs blossom to adorn
the structured societal norm of harmony.
But the mist of intolerance of the complex times,
clouds the modern man’s jaundiced eye,
altruistic intents are shrouded by pall of prejudice,
fabricating a biased and motivated value system.
In the abyss of narrow ethical perception
alienated lives wander in the secluded alley.
For them to find oneness of soul under the divine sky,
it’s time to clear the predisposed colored vision.
June 23, 2021
Contest : Jaundiced Eye
Sponsor : Unseeking Seeker
" No child should feel uncared, unloved, thrown away"
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There was a time when mothers were not working
Mother would be with kids taking care, instilling good values
Children felt loved and secure
Now a days most women are working
Kids are left at crèche or home,
Their parents have no time for them
What will be the value system of such children?
What will be the future of nation if children without moral values run it?
Such kids learn all bad habits, no one to correct to them.
They roam about in search of love, they are depressed
This is one of the main cause of growing violence, suicides,
selfish humans who don't know what it is to love and care
Why give birth to a child when you have no time?
Why spoil a child's life?
27th February 2021
Inspired by :
Contest Name : Vanishing" old or new for a prize
Sponsor : Carolyn Devonshire
2nd position
The herd amasses together
The numbers provide the semblance of societal norms
It's a collective value system called conformity
Like bees to a bee hive - they swarm
Non-compliance is unacceptable
The fear of alienation is what drives the herd
The outsiders are entitled to their opinion
Yet crucified for their words
They are self-professed social warriors
With superior morals, values, and beliefs
They project - true virtue
Living a life of victimization filled with childish griefs
Self-righteousness becomes their identity
No one is excluded from their attack
Like a snake that eats its own tale
We all lose something we can never get back
Conformity - presented as collective value
Exhausted - we accept uncritically
The line between fact and fiction
Becomes a complete absurdity
“Herd morality is a powerful beast, with the force of the majority behind it.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
I pledge allegiance to the earth,
and every single inhabitant that occupies it,
and in harmony with nature intelligently manage its resources,
the common rightful global heritage of all of us.
We must all declare the earth and all of its resources,
all of the earth's inhabitant's rightful heritage.
If we don't we will continue to have and create more problems,
that will ultimately end with our own self destruction.
We must all radically change our present way of thinking,
and develop a value system that is not at all profit driven,
but rather a system that motivates and promotes to all sincere compassion,
which in turn would promote and provide everyone a higher standard of living.
I have no allegiance to any president, any country or anybody.
I pledge allegiance to the earth, the common rightful heritage of everybody.
For two and half centuries standing lone
witnessed how people's thought process have grown;
Decades of sighting made me to discern
the way people behave made me perturb.
Is it that the human value system
debased; what about the old tradition?
Respect for tree missing, they're destroying
nature too, creating its annoyance.
Migrating birds are avoiding to fly
how they'd live, don't know why people defy.
Trees know their roots maintain stability
but, they forget their root, no dignity.
Trees decide its growth, the ways it'll flourish
but their rude acts divert them from purpose.
~X~X~X~
There is enough global geothermal energy,
to provide unlimited energy, environmentally friendly,
for thousands of years to everybody globally,
absolutely free.
All we have to do is apply the appropriate technology,
and establish a value system that eliminates greed.
Whatever value system you have been given,
is to promote the culture you were raised in.
You never go unnoticed
You choose to be different
And carry it with humble pride
You dare to take the stares
As you idly walk the streets
Where you don’t seem to fit in
Like a character
Out of its time
Out of its place
You stand out
And make us normal people
Stop and stare and
Maybe some of us stop to think
Every once in a while
I will think back and see
Your eyes, your look
To me you’re a question mark
About society’s value system
And the price we put on
A smile, a touch, a kind word
A hug, a chat
I saw you again today
After so many years
Just a few yards away
But I didn’t have the time
To say hello and ask how you’d been
I never have the time
To stop and listen
AP: 3rd place 2026, Honorable Mention 2020
Lord, you have opened my eyes
To see the truth from lies,
You have removed the disguise of the enemy.
He would like us to think
That the sweetest things are
Money, false pride & the power of this world.
However, as your spirit has shown me,
These are nothing compared to a single dose of your
Peace, hope & love,
The gifts that are from above.
That’s why I say:
Lord, the sweetest things are from you
They are so free, & freeing,
The sweetest things are from you
Because they come from you:
The Superior being.
For it makes perfect sense that
The one who knows best
Should give the best gifts.
Not that you don’t give wealth and status,
But not to all,
However, there is not one saint
That has never known your peace.
The point: some gifts are more valuable than others
And that is what the devil doesn’t want us to see
He has turned the value system backwards
In hope that we will follow,
And eventually join in his sorrow.
Lord, that’s why you are our hope for tomorrow
Because you are the sweetest thing.
We all have many values
many different but important they are
laying down our life principles
so to keep us focused by far
These days seem to be gone
nowadays principal values are old hat
everybody throws them to abandonment
thinking it's just another stat
Consider well what is value
what's important to you
as it could effect history
to show yourself in what you do
What do we value in life?
our life itself is our very breath
without such a value we're doomed
for ultimately it ends in death
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