annaneen
Number of posts: 44
Age: 66
Location: Newport S.Wales, but proudly Scottish
Points: 102
Registration date: 2011-08-30
 | | Subject: Success Sun Dec 04, 2011 9:04 pm | |
| Success
How do you measure success in this world.
It's difficult to be sure.
It all depends on who you are,
and what you feel is pure.
For there are those who think
that money matters most.
And then spend all their time in search
of what can give them boast.
They can achieve their greatest dreams
and not even see the cost
to their best and longest relationships
until they're all but lost.
They thought money would bring them happiness
and to a point it does.
But slowly friendships that they thought 'is'
they realise now are 'was'.
While others, and I feel I'm one,
have more mundane desires.
We prefer to focus on people
and light friendships little fires.
We may not go to all the grand places
and meet all the top brass and chatter.
But we'll enjoy our journey through life,
because we know people matter.
And in the end, when all is said
We've people around us who care.
While the others who thought they had everything,
realise they've no one to share.
They're reduced to paying for everything
in order to have some 'friends'
While we'll have people beside us,
right up until our end.
© Ian Lumley
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bruce_hh
Number of posts: 4431
Age: 64
Location: Monterey, California, U.S.A.
Points: 4928
Registration date: 2008-10-22
| | Subject: Re: Success Mon Dec 05, 2011 5:06 am | |
| Dear **Ian**: Such verses my foes might give the best snot in a nose. I'm rather phlegmatic while up in some attic the Greek in me punches in >>'PROSE' ...  |
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Carol Perroni
Number of posts: 682
Points: 761
Registration date: 2008-12-27
| | Subject: Re: Success Mon Dec 05, 2011 6:30 pm | |
| A good poem, Ian!  You are so right that determining success should be an individual thing. So many people jump on the bandwagon of believing that the conventional goals of money and power will bring them success and satisfaction only to find out later that it may have brought them more unhappiness than they could have imagined. Your poem has an excellent message! It's important to stay true to your own beliefs and values!  Best, Carol |
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Doreen Hampshire
Number of posts: 2569
Age: 71
Location: HULL England
Points: 2394
Registration date: 2008-10-22
| | Subject: Re: Success Mon Dec 05, 2011 6:38 pm | |
| A good message here Ian Thanks for sharing _________________   |
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Ian Russell
Number of posts: 157
Age: 80
Location: Alloa,Clackmannanshire
Points: 290
Registration date: 2008-10-28
| | Subject: Re: Success Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:55 pm | |
| Good to see you back on this site a really well composed piece and a truly good read
Ian R. |
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davidf
Number of posts: 1799
Points: 1579
Registration date: 2008-10-22
| | Subject: Re: Success Mon Dec 05, 2011 11:28 pm | |
| Ian L.,
You are so right! It's like the saying goes, "money does not buy happiness."
Your friend,
David Fox |
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Gilly J
Number of posts: 1251
Points: 1178
Registration date: 2008-10-21
| | Subject: Re: Success Thu Dec 15, 2011 6:46 am | |
| A good message in your poem.. there's a lot of greed and showing off about... but it doesnt get a person anywhere... in the end... |
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