Poem -
Vanity And Virtue
Forget the slander you have heard.
Forget the poison of each word.
Forget the hate directed at you.
Forget the lies spoken by a few.
Forget the jealousies of the weak.
Forget the riches that they seek.
Forget the life of false pretence.
Forget the ego lacking moral sense.
Forget the languish of legions lost.
Forget the line that's always crossed.
Forget the agony of unfulfilled dreams.
Forget the loud with constant screams.
Forget the conflict you can't console.
Forget the anguish you can't control.
Forget the myriads that tear a soul apart.
Remember, virtue dwells in a human heart
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speak on my brother!...............................................................................Jim
Jim thanks my poetry brother there was more written but you could have been here till the cows come home.
Sometimes less is more.
ย And heads up I'll be making poetry inroads to yours tonight.
Thanks again Jim for all your support and stay poetry frosty my friend.
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Shaun...a powerful write and powerful words to remind us all when we look deep withinย
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Pratibha I'm not going to say how are, for one's feelings and juncture in life after the loss of a loved one speak for themselves.
But it'sย good to see you back on here and thank you so much for your kind comments.
And if you want to talk you can message me and rely on your family, all loved ones and time to guide you through.
Wishing you well, your friend Shaun. x
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๐๐๐๐๐ฝ thanks shaun.
it's good to be back on here x
Good and darned glad to see you back Pratibha and just sent you a personal message.
And thank you my friend. x.
Thank you and received ๐๐ฝ๐๐๐๐
Wow Shaun this is one perfect and powerful poem. Jolts the reader to reflect on what truly is important. You can put your pen skills to anything my friend. It is a delight every timeย
Gwen x
Gwen thank you for your wonderful inspiring words and I guess we pick and choose and then tuck away for a rainy reflective day.
Will be reading your good self's latest later tonight.
And just want to add sometimes in life we can try too hard to be placed on that marble pedestal and those who yearn and reach it are soul-less and never value true friendship.
Thank you for your friendship Gwen and so straight and always true.
Shaun.ย x
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Wise words Shaun. The pedestal frightens me. I would rather stay in the background, hidden from sight. I fear this world is far to big for meย
Thanks for always being so kind and supportive my friendย
Gwen x
Gwen always a pleasure and it's a wise thing to take a back seat in life and just let it and certain people with certain 'characteristics' to unfold. x
Absolutely, all the worlds a stage and the people merely players (Shakespeare) and like all shows, the real stuff holding it together goes on in the wings. Not in the big lights up front. I am definitely a backstage crew member xย
Thanks again Gwen and recently read your latest but still have more of your poetry ground to cover and will do from Wednesday onwards.
And the way my woes and luck have been running recently I'd be the guy to fall though the trap-door or as Shakespeare would say...
โWoe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.โ
See and read you soon my friend and thank you. x.
Shaun wonderful poem
Greg I'm glad you liked it and enjoyed reading it, a moral message poem and one to hopefully reflect one.
And I will be adding more later tonight on your Halloween poem and put them near the end so it's easier for you to find.
Thank you again and wishing you well and all the best.
The poetry best that is my friend.
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I have pinned this Shaun...not only because it is amazing and reads at a fast pace ...almost like a warning, but because you have written every last thing that I am struggling with in my very own soul. How did you do that? Grief has turned me inward and bitter and isolated through my own choosing. Your words are wise and relevant to me in a way I cannot explain...I shall read again and again to remind me what it is to be truly human and to try once more...at some point to achieve that again...many hugs X
Marion, I don't really know truth be told, just one I've been mulling over after seeing things, well maybe not things, but people and the heartache's ,the situations they carry and try to hide, but never do, for there's too many burdens.
And if it helps, in any small way, anyone for that matter.
Then that can't be a bad thing. Can it?
Your comment Marion, your wonderful and honest comment,
makes writing so worthwhile and humbling both in equal measure.
Hugs back at you my friend and will be reading more of yours hopefully tomorrow evening, Just reaching out and touching base tonight.
Your friend,
Shaun. x
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Yeeha so true every word spoken by you.
So glad that you exist.ย
So glad to hear your poem.ย
I thought common sense was dead.ย
But your poem spined my head.ย
A curtsy to you.ย
Well done and them some.ย
Perfect in every word.ย
The world should know the well deserved.ย
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Liliana wow! And thank you so much for your most generous and gracious comments. and please forgive this struggling so so poet's uber-late reply.
Bad puppy and all that.
But will make amends this week and get my posterior in gear and be reading your good self's poetry.
But in the meantime thanks again and glad you enjoyed it.
And it's beyond belief and sad to see that some people, not all, choose to venture on their own personal road to perdition knowing the self harm it constantly and direly offers.
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wow makes one think really cool write Linda all the best to you.
And all the very best also to you too good Linda, thanking you most kindly.
Shaun, this is sooooo true! Virtue sits in the heart โค of those who have it. An optimist would say we all have it somewhere there...but I am a cynic lol
Great poem ๐ x
Tina many and mucho thanks for your superb comment and let's face it there's a cynic in us sometimes and never a shrinking violet.
Said optimist would play both ends even when they are both burning.
Thank you for all your un-boundless moral support and forgive this mega- late comment from this so so struggling welshie wanabee poet.
Merry Christmas to you and also the loved ones around you. x.
Wow! This is so brilliant write.
You nailed it Shaun.
Happy to be back on here.ย
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Leah thank you so much for your kind words and just for the record I am now a happy poetry bunny and even happier to be back on here and uplifting tower of strength comments like yours ensure I'll never leave.
Merry Christmas to you good Leah and those close to you.
Wishing you well, your friend Shaun.x.
I am so pleased to have read this! It speaks volumes and whispers in our ear that which so many of us feel ย and should express more..the blessings we do have and that we should embrace fully ..instead of placing so much emphasis on the โstuffโ ย which we seem ย to think more important...a wonderfully written piece to lift and revitalise our sometimes failing moral compass! Thank for such a splendid write my friend! As always,kindest thoughts ย sent to you. Lodigiana x
Lodigiana, please forgive this late reply and thank you so much for your wonderful and spiritual comments.
For like you say 'stuff' will always be stuff.
Cold and linear holding no spiritual worth of value just plain old stuff, mere materialism for those who yearn or grasp after it.
And yes it is about blessings and to embrace them fully.
I'm a firm believer in hope, even wear a hope pin badge on my museum pass security lanyard and who knows people can see perhaps one day the error of one's ways and hope to change and become a better person.
Anyway I digress and will be reading your latest offerings from midweek onwards.
To learn from and to write better prose.
Stay safe and stay healthy my friend and thank you for all you have done for me and it's been nearly a year since arriving here and like yourself and your beautiful writing, it's all good.
Shaun. x.
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Wow, Shaun, just ... WOW!! This poem is awesome!ย I am pretty sure that this is something we all struggle with at times and so it is relatable to the many in as many different ways. I love this. I love the flow, uncompromising and fast. I love the rhyme because it really works to enhance the conveyance of intent, in no way does it take over to BE the poem. I love what it says. I love the strength it holds and the punch it delivers. This poem is a very special one. Very, very well done ๐ ๐๐ x
Tina you honour me with two marvellous comments and I'm glad you enjoyed it and I guess like you say we all do, if we're honest with ourselves and id and ego, is that we all do struggle trying to find an even keel throughout without the shiny baubles and attitude.
You have like Marion a great poetic eye and feel for a poem, for the speed or beat of this is a tempo that is fast and frenetic and the intended message conveyed.
I wish you well my friend and thank you so much for your more then kind words and poetically astute observations.
Have a Merry Christmas and your loved ones too. x.
Yup!ย I read it again and got a whole different feel to it. Just goes to showย the influence of moodย when reading poetryย ๐ย xx
Amazing write
Lisa, a generous comment like that and coming from your good and talented self has made my day and my night.
Thank you so much for visiting.
Shaun,
Oh, if I could always hold that thought!
that you remind me here, in this way, is a gift that will keep on giving if I return to read it, as I will.
thanks v much and cheers!
Mark
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Excellence is not a virtue, its the word awarded to these words you have pinned so perfectly here Shaun .. Top marque my man & of course so bloomin true :)ย
Hello Shaunย
hope you are well my friend, I have just seen this one and it really made me think. We don't really need all of the things we want, generally people seem to be fixated of what they can't have and what others seem to have ...especially in the age of social media
Virtuous write!
Love this one
Nos da
Lorna xx
Hello Lorna and still shooting the poetry breeze and thank you for respectfully stopping by here.
And yes it is so true what you have to say and in this age of social media.
And it's funny that you should mention social media, for those two words and what theme unfolds on it, are the middle crux stanza of a poem I have justย (re)written and forever revamped/rejigging/ or just plain old farting around with!!!
Arrived back late here in Cardiff after a much needed grand week off.
Will catch up tomorrow on your latest offerings and others also.
Thanks again and will send you another pm also bonny lass :)
Nos da a breuddwydion melys i'ch hunan da !!!
Shaun xx
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ooh looking forward to your re jig, socail media is nowย forever part or sometime all of the story for peopleย these days I think...
I had to Google translate that oneย but sweet dreams back at you ๐ x
Lorna, social media can make or break you or anybody at anytime.
ย It can put you on a popular pedestal or leave you aย damned/doomed/marked soul adrift up shit creek without a proverbial paddle.
It is four lines at present about a social media accusation but debating to make it eight but that might be too much information overkill, to go with the other four existing writtenย (non social media) stanzas.
It's a toughie but four lines would carry it and eight might overdo it.
Even though in different varying words but still treading the same ground.
Repeating what has gone before.
Basically prefer to move things along and make it flow without the poetry baggage and clutter.
Hhmmm! Just undecided at the moment and watch this space, might put it up this Friday or Sunday.
Maybe just stick with the simplistic one, fingers crossed the right one.
Occam's razor and all that
Oh! And well done to you for deciphering (translating) and absolutely 100% spot on there bonny lass.
Bletchley Park staff in their golden glory years would be proud of you.ย ๐
Duty again calls for tomorrow, so suffice to say Nos da again to your good self, but will send you a pm before turning in :) xx
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